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Drummond cleared in landmark Colombia rights case
26 Jul 2007 19:38:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 26 (Reuters) - U.S. coal company Drummond was acquitted on Thursday of liability over the killing of three union leaders in 2001 at a mine it operates in Colombia.

The jury in what legal experts viewed as a landmark case rejected the plaintiffs' accusation that privately-held Drummond Company Inc. gave support to right-wing paramilitary groups that carried out the killings and was thus liable for the deaths.
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Yolanda Pulecio, whose daughter former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by Colombia's largest rebel group, the FARC, visits the house where Simon Bolivar, a leader of several independence movements in the 1800s throughout South America, was born in, in Caracas August 21, 2007. Relatives of Colombians kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas met on Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the left-wing leader vowed he would try to break a deadlock over releasing hostages.



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