The groups accuse Colombian officers of sharing intelligence, coordinating roadblocks and remaining in close communication with the Self-Defense Forces during their scorched earth, anti-insurgency drives.

He arrived as a search continued for a plane with five American soldiers and two Colombian military officers.

Before he could report, he was arrested by Colombian officers.

Some senior Colombian military officer, operating entirely on his own... or in the pay of the yanquis?

For instance, the United States has trained 13,500 Colombian officers and noncommissioned officers since 1950.

But to Colombian military officers in the field, there is no such distinction.

But according to the second police report, so are some Colombian military officers, including Maj. Jorge Alberto Lazaro, a former rural army base commander.

Ramón González Valencia (1851 - 1928) was a Colombian conservative, military officer and statesman.

"It is an area that allows them to rest, to reorganize and regain momentum to again come back into this country," a high-ranking Colombian military officer said in a telephone interview.

He arrived as a search continued for a plane with five American soldiers and two Colombian military officers who had been on a counter-drug reconnaissance mission.