Francia Marquez, an activist from southwest Colombia, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for extraordinary environmental activists. Marquez, a community leader from the war-torn Cauca department, led a 10-day,…
The United Nations is monitoring trials against 30 Colombian social leaders who were arrested on Friday after the Prosecutor General’s Office accused them of ties to ELN rebels. The leaders…
Weeks after demobilized FARC guerrillas suspended their election campaign citing security concerns, police clashed with unarmed protesters near a rally of hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe. Local police said that…
Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group ELN allegedly carried out at least 10 attacks on road infrastructure in a three-day offensive aimed at shutting down the South American country. According to security…
At least 10 people were killed on Sunday night in two separate incidents as armed attackers slaughtered seven people 50 miles north of Colombia’s second biggest city Medellin and three…
Locals from the home town of Colombia soccer star Yerry Mina took to the streets over the weekend to celebrate their neighbor’s official presentation as a Barcelona player. The 20,000 strong…
Indigenous in southwest Colombia are terrified after finding six unidentified bodies in an area where multiple armed groups are vying for control over territory abandoned by FARC guerrillas. The bodies…
At least four people were killed and 19 went missing after a mudslide hit the town of Corinto in southwestern Colombia on Tuesday, the National Police said. The Paila River…
Indigenous people from southwest Colombia vowed to remove roadblocks after foreign organizations agreed to monitor deescalation efforts in the war-torn region. Indigenous peoples from across Colombia called a national process…