31.   A top government official said Tuesday that the government has negotiated to convince leftist Colombian rebels to stay off Venezuelan soil.

32.   A senior Colombian rebel leader admitted Friday that his insurgency is seeking ransom for hostages seized in a daring airline hijacking and a raid on a Roman Catholic Mass.

33.   A top government official has said that the government has negotiated to convince leftist Colombian rebels to stay off Venezuelan soil.

34.   Active for more than three decades, Colombian rebels still espouse Marxist ideology.

35.   American college professor and peace activist Bernard Lafayette came to Colombia hoping to meet with Colombian rebels.

36.   Anderson, an AP correspondent when kidnapped and now a journalism professor, said he has so far had no contact with any Colombian rebel group.

37.   Authorities accuse Colombian rebels of bloodshed as peace talks resume.

38.   Before naming him interior minister, President Hugo Chavez often dispatched Rodriguez Chacin to negotiate kidnapping cases with Colombian rebels.

39.   Border town inaugurated to stop Colombian rebels.

40.   Brig. Gen. Nestor Gonzalez Gonzalez accused President Hugo Chavez of refusing to govern democratically, of sympathizing with leftist Colombian rebels and politicizing the military.