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Posted: 2/22/2013 8:23:23 AM EST
FILE - This July 18, 2012 file photo shows Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Mons. Ettore Balestrero speaking during a press conference at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal. Mons. Balestrero was named undersecretary of the Vatican's Foreign Ministry in 2009. Benedict XVI on Friday named him ambassador, or nunzio, to Colombia. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, files)
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Posted: 2/10/2013 6:51:12 PM EST
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's (FARC) lead negotiator Ivan Marquez smokes a Cohiba cigar next to FARC negotiator Jesus Santrich (R) after a conference in Havana February 10, 2013. Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels said on Sunday their talks aimed at ending half a century of conflict are picking up pace and making progress towards an agreement on land reform, a key point in the peace process. Speaking as they ended their latest round of negotiations in the Cuban capital, they signalled that public acrimony they had displayed in recent weeks did not represent what was happening behind closed doors. Rodrigo Granda, a senior leader of the FARC, said the discussions were moving ahead on the “right track” and “at the speed of a bullet train.” REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Diana Armijos, of Ecuador, waits to get her make-up applied before modeling in the Bionic Fashion show, backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Armijos, a cancer survivor whose leg was amputated due to her illness, is in her last week of pregnancy. She joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb, 5, 2013 photo, Cintia Caraguay, is helped with a dress as she prepares to model a creation before the start of the Bionic Fashion show backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Caraguay, a cancer survivor from Ecuador whose right leg was amputated to to cancer, joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Eric Salas holds still as he is prepared to model clothing at the Bionic Fashion show, backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Salas, from Venezuela, is a cancer survivor whose right arm was amputated due to his illness. He joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb, 5, 2013 photo, a mirror reflects a young model walking with a prosthetic leg and using crutches before participating in the Bionic Fashion show backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Young cancer survivors from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador modeled creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Yulexi Chevez is assisted as she parades down the catwalk using her prosthetic leg during the Bionic Fashion Show at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Chevez, from Ecuador, is a cancer survivor who lost her right leg due to cancer. She joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, and Colombia to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In the Feb, 5, 2013 photo, Arli Mujica uses crutches as she walks down the catwalk during the Bionic Fashion show at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Mujica, former runner from Venezuela whose whose left leg was amputated due to cancer and uses a prosthetic leg, joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. Today, Mujica now swims at the paralympic level. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb, 5, 2013 photo, Arli Mujica, from Venezuela, supports herself on crutches as she wears a piece of her costume before the start of the Bionic Fashion show, backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Mujica, a former runner whose whose left leg was amputated due to cancer and uses a prosthetic leg, joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. Today, Mujica now swims at the paralympic level. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 6:28:31 PM EST
In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Helianny Garcia uses crutches as she parades down the catwalk during the Bionic Fashion show at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Garc, a cancer survivor from Venezuela whose right leg was amputated due to the illness, joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) Garcia
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Posted: 1/30/2013 7:33:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, Humberto de la Calle, head of Colombia's government negotiation team, arrives for a press conference on the sidelines of peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, in Havana, Cuba, The Colombian government's chief negotiator claimed on Wednesday that the retention of two policemen on Jan. 25, 2013 in southwestern Colombia by FARC rebels is undermining the negotiation process. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:31 PM EST
FARC negotiator Andres Paris (R) talks to the media next to members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group Jesus Santrich (2nd R), Ricardo Tellez, Tanja Nijmeijer (L) of the Netherlands and lead negotiator Ivan Marquez (C), during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:31 PM EST
Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) lead negotiator Ivan Marquez talks to the media during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:31 PM EST
Member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group Jesus Santrich talks to the media during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:31 PM EST
Tanja Nijmeijer of the Netherlands, an active member of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), attends a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:31 PM EST
Tanja Nijmeijer of the Netherlands, an active member of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), stands after a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. Marxist rebels and the Colombian government adjourned their latest round of peace talks on Thursday with no major advances toward ending their long conflict and said they had significant differences to overcome despite some areas of agreement. They said they agreed that the lives of the country's rural poor must be improved, which is the key issue in their 50-year-long war, but not on how to go about it. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:06 PM EST
FARC negotiator Andres Paris (R) talks to the media next to members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group Jesus Santrich (2nd R), Ricardo Tellez, Tanja Nijmeijer (L) of the Netherlands and lead negotiator Ivan Marquez (C), during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:06 PM EST
Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) lead negotiator Ivan Marquez talks to the media during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:06 PM EST
Member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group Jesus Santrich talks to the media during a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 7:12:06 PM EST
Tanja Nijmeijer of the Netherlands, an active member of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), attends a news conference in Havana January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
