11 FARC leaders sentenced for bombing hotel
Eleven highly-ranked FARC members Tuesday were sentenced in absentia to 57 years and 11 months in prison for their part in the 2005 bombing of a rural hotel. A Villavicencio…
Eleven highly-ranked FARC members Tuesday were sentenced in absentia to 57 years and 11 months in prison for their part in the 2005 bombing of a rural hotel. A Villavicencio…
Demobilized members of illegal armed groups are rearming more than the Colombian government previously admitted. More than 2,000 of them were murdered, despite their official exit from the violent conflict,…
A police operation in the northwestern Colombian municipality of Corinto (Cauca) resulted in the arrest of a suspected leader of the FARC. According to authorities, Edwin Elias Secue Viscue, alias…
On behalf of the Colombian State, vice president Francisco Santos asked for forgiveness for the 2000 El Salado massacre, one of the most brutal in the country’s history. During a…
Authorities on Monday began investigating the murder of three Awa indigenous community in the southern Colombian department of Nariño. The victims were murdered this weekend in the rural area outside…
FARC rebels attacked a house in southern Colombia and left one dead and eight wounded on Monday, reported military sources. The attack took place in the jungle town of Uribe, where…
Assumed guerrillas of the FARC robbed a local bank in an attack on a village in the south east of Colombia Tuesday, reported Canal Caracol. According to the television station,…
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez asked Colombia to sit down with the country’s largest rebel group FARC and to not sign a military agreement with the United States. Chavez, on a…
Colombian authorities have arrested retired General Francisco Rene Pedraza Pelaez for his alleged involvement in the massacre of at least 26 peasants and indigenous in 2001 in the south west…