Barranquilla Carnival
Mass by Antioquia state governor Guillermo Gaviria in Medellin, Colombia, 2003. Gaviria and former Defense Minister Gilberto Echeverri were killed as army troops approached the rebel camp where they were being held hostage, according to a presidential statement.
South Korean group performs during the ninth Iberoamerican Theater Festival in Bogota,Colombia,2004.
Children play next to the Navy fortified vessel at Curvarado, a village on the Atrato river in northwestern Colombia, 2003
Maria Zulema Velez, the wife of the minister of social welfare, Juan Luis Londono, kisses her older daughter Juliana as they leave Bogota's cathedral after a funeral mass. Londono, three advisers and a pilot died in a plane crash, 2003.
Ninth Iberoamerican Theater Festival at the Bolivar square in Bogota,Colombia,2004.
Children dressed as butterflies participate in the World Aids Day candlelight vigil in Bogota, Colombia, 2005.
Soldiers show the press 30 dead of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,FARC, in La Plata, Colombia,2002.
Workers and a soldier stand close to an oil well set ablaze by rebels in the rural area of Puerto Asis, Colombia.2003.
Children play on the Atrato river in northwestern Colombia, 2003.
A police officer moves away as thousands of athletes start running at the departure line of Bogota's IV half Marathon,2003.
A boy of the impoverished neighborhood of Cartucho sniffs glue while standing next to the coffins of residents who were killed during a mortar attack by rebels minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as the country's new president, in Bogota, Colombia, 2002.
A woman cries as she kneels among the tombstones while army officers march at a military cemetery in Bogota, Colombia, 2003. Friends and relatives gathered at the military cemetery to honor soldiers who have been killed in fighting against rebels during the country's civil war.
A man lights tires during a demonstration trying to overturn a mayoral order to clear out the city center's homeless population, 1999.
Theater Festival. Bogota
Hernando Rodriguez Daniels, 10, son of slain Colombian Sen. Martha Catalina Daniels, cries at her funeral in Bogota, 2002.
Friends and relatives carry the coffins of residents of Bogota's Cartucho slum who were killed during a mortar attack minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as the new president of Colombia, 2002.
Gay Parade in Bogota, Colombia.2002.
A woman holds a Colombian flag during a moment of silence in Bogota, Colombia, 2002.
A school girl cover from the sun as she walks past a navy dinghy patrolling the Atrato river in Bojaya, Colombia, 2003.
Soldiers from the Rapid Response Forces arrives to the town of Vista Hermosa, Colombia. Some 13,000 troops have been mobilized to reclaim the vast territory in southern Colombia that had been granted to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, as an incentive to end the country's 38-year civil war.
Students run from tear gas fired by police into a crowd of demonstrators who tried to march to the U.S. Embassy to protest the war in Iraq in Bogota, Colombia,2003.
Colombian soldier performs an exercise on a naval boat in Puerto Leguisamo, Colombia,1999.
A young man place flowers on a cemetery before march against of terrorism in Bogota, Colombia,,2003.
A little girl listens as army cadets take part during a military ceremony in Bogota, Colombia, 2003.
Paramilitary fighters wait to lay down their arms in San Pablo, a town in northern Colombia,2005.
A boy watches a Navy fortified vessel at Curvarado, a village on the Atrato river in northwestern Colombia, 2003.
Peace March. Bogota
Protest against the government of President Alvaro Uribe in Bogota, Colombia, 2005.
U.S contractors walk next to an oil well set ablaze by rebels in the rural area of Puerto Asis, in the jungles of the southern state of Putumayo, 2003
Oil well set ablaze by rebels in the rural area of Puerto Asis, in the jungles of the southern state of Putumayo, 2003.
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe jumps rope in his assistance during the annual March of Solidarity celebrated in Bogota, Colombia,2003.
Universidad Nacional protest.2002
Landsmine victims.2002