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 TORIBIO, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's top military leaders on Sunday toured this mountainous region in southwest Colombia to oversee government forces struggling to retake control of the area from Marxist rebels.
"The situation is being brought under control," Gen. Carlos Alberto Ospina, the armed forces commander, insisted after flying into the village of Palo, close to the front lines. "Naturally, these bandits have sown mine fields and there are some snipers, so we still have to move carefully," he told RCN television.
But further down the valley in rebel-controlled Tacueyo, Ricardo, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the rebels had forced an armored military column to retreat during clashes several miles outside the village in the past 24 hours.
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