The women’s movement of recently assassinated Colombian displaced leader Ana Fabricia Cordoba said Tuesday that the leader’s death will likely force the government to change its response to risks faced…
The Human Rights Ombudsman for the Choco department condemned the FARC guerrillas Wednesday for ordering hundreds of indigenous people not to move from their lands. Ombudsman Victor Raul Mosquera told…
Artisanal mining traditions and culture dating back to when the Spanish first brought African slaves to mine the region known today as Choco, are being reintroduced into the 21st century…
A complex criminal network linked to drug trafficking group “Los Rastrojos” was dismantled in the western Colombian department of Choco, with 13 out of the 37 captured coming from the…
The lumbering of trees in the Colombian Pacific rain forest by a Canadian company must be suspended announced the vice minister of environment on W Radio Thursday. Environment Vice Minister…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has played down the gravity of the FARC “kidnapping” situation in the Pacific department of Choco but said the problem is now resolved, Caracol Radio…
Colombian armed forces rescued over 100 people held hostage by the FARC’s 34th Front in the Las Mercedes village of the Choco department on Tuesday night. The rescue mission was…
Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras and Military Chief Admiral Edgar Cely have contradicted each other’s accounts of the FARC “kidnapping” situation in the western Colombian department of…
Alleged guerrilles of the FARC continued their blockade of a river in the western Colombian department of Choco, holding some 250 people hostage in a small village, despite allowing some…