Colombia’s armed forces have killed 16 outlawed far-right gunmen, bombing their convoy as it travelled across cattle ranching savannah, authorities say. The joint offensive by the army and the air force took place about 85 miles southeast of the nation’s capital in a lawless zone of Meta province disputed by the far-right paramilitaries and Marxist rebels, an army spokesman said. It came the same day that the United States certified Colombia for human rights, allowing the Andean nation to receive aid to fight a four-decade-old guerrilla war and the world’s largest cocaine industry. Full Story
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