In return, Mexico said it would lift tariffs that it imposed in 2009.Colombia's FARC guerrillas abducted 23 workers at a Canadian oil company in the eastern jungle region of Vichada.
Here the prime minister was more halfhearted, perhaps half-baked, calculating he was giving enough to keep a year-old peace process with the PKK guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers party alive, while not conceding too much.
Mr Kosirnik, who was the organisation's delegate in the Rhodesian conflict in the 1970s, says the two black guerrilla movements fighting the white regime formally committed themselves to abiding by the Geneva Conventions, and confirmed their pledge even after a band of roving guerrillas murdered three Red Cross workers.
Guerrillas target oil company workers in Nigeria, pirates ransom cargo ship operators off the coast of Somalia and criminal gangs go after tech executives and their children in India.
Armed FARC guerrillas disguised as construction workers opened fire on members of the Colombian military on a road in La Montañita, a town in the southern region of Caqueta.
A video shows him creating his guerrilla mural and tunnel workers washing it away and, in effect, censoring Mr. Orion's pro-ecology statement.
Making the transition from guerrilla to urban worker is not easy, especially for young, uneducated peasants.
Then, after the workers fled, the guerrillas laced the structure with explosives and leveled it.
In October 2000, a sophisticated kidnapping gang of former leftist guerrillas seized four American oil workers in Ecuador.
Elderly revolutionaries joined young doctors, famous musicians, government workers and former guerrilla fighters in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución as thousands lined up to pay their last respects to Fidel Castro.
