31.   He and his family fled the area under Colombian government protection, and are now in a special protection program.

32.   He also blasted the FARC for its increasingly violent methods and accused the rebel army of dithering during three years of peace talks with the Colombian government.

33.   His exit exacerbated the sense in Colombia and in Washington that the Colombian government is no match for the traffickers.

34.   In its report last week on the crash, prepared with the assistance of the safety board, the Colombian government attributed the crash to pilot error.

35.   In the twilight of a life spent in rebellion, Guillermo Garcia offers hard counsel to younger neighbors considering an olive branch offered by the Colombian government.

36.   Instead, it was the Colombian government that teetered on the brink.

37.   It defined its task in a new way, not as peasant self-defense, but as overthrowing the Colombian government.

38.   Later in the week, the Colombian government extradited another major drug suspect to the United States.

39.   Leahy and several leading human rights groups charged that the Colombian government has done little to arrest and prosecute paramilitary leaders and their military allies.

40.   Monday was the first time that the searches had discovered drugs on a Colombian government plane, Kelly said.