To facilitate the Navy's movements between oceans, he encouraged a revolution in the Colombian province of Panama.

In 1903 the USA took advantage of the country's internal strife and fomented a secessionist movement in Panama, then a Colombian province.

The senator believed a route across the Colombian province of Panama to be superior to its Nicaraguan rival.

He began his political career as a Deputy to the Assembly of the Colombian province of Antioquia, where he served from 1945 to 1947.

The wreckage was spotted this morning by a radio news helicopter near the town of Urrau, located in the northwestern Colombian province of Antioquia.

Coinciding with a new wave of drug-related violence, a surge of leftist guerrilla activity is convulsing the Colombian provinces before important municipal elections March 13.

Most Colombian provinces have this kind of subdivision.

Pablo Ardila, 35, took office earlier this year as governor of Cundinamarca, the Colombian province that includes the capital, Bogotá.

The Europeans were also outraged when the group, also in July, plucked Alan Jara, a former governor of a Colombian province, from a marked United Nations car.

In 2002 and 2003, FARC broke up ten large ranches in Meta, an eastern Colombian province, and distributed the land to local subsistence farmers.