The Colombian government’s Institute for Rural Development (Incoder) has announced plans to restore land titles to 3,650 Afro-Colombian families in June. Approximately 420,000 acres of land will be returned to…
Colombia’s national forces have killed six alleged members of the FARC in the Pacific coast department of Choco, Europa Press reported Monday. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera explained that national forces…
Former mayor of the municipality of Bahia Solano in the northern Choco department, Jose Ignacio Navarrete, was killed while walking in a Medellin neighborhood reported RCN Radio Wednesday. The former…
President Juan Manuel Santos expressed disapproval at a Colombian judge’s decision to liberate a FARC prisoner despite substantial incriminating evidence, according to a press release on the president’s website. Santos’…
Colombia’s armed forces have killed at least ten guerrillas from the FARC’s 30th Front in the western department of Choco, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. The deaths came as a result…
A timber harvesting license granted to a Canadian company will allow the exploitation of Colombian rain forest on the Pacific coast, with potentially serious consequences for regional biodiversity, W Radio…
Hours after the government concluded the land restitution of some 63,000 acres to Afro-Colombian communities in the Choco department, illegal armed groups raided and burned several acres of crops, Caracol…
A demobilized FARC poster girl is arrested in west-central Colombia after it was revealed that she failed to confess to all her crimes when she disarmed, Ultimas Noticias reported Monday.…
An aircraft being used by narco-traffickers is stopped and seized on Colombia’s Pacific coast by the air force, El Espectador reported Tuesday. According to the article, the unregistered Piper aircraft…