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The bodies of three American activists killed in Colombia last week were flown back to the United States late yesterday, as calls intensified for a full investigation into who was responsible for their murders. This comes as Venezuelan authorities said yesterday that evidence at the site where the Americans’ bodies were found indicates that they were murdered in Venezuela, and not in Colombia as they originally thought. Ingrid Washinawatok, Terence Freitas and Laheenae Gay were kidnapped two weeks ago in indigenous U’Wa territory by masked gunmen and held for a week before they were shot to death.