Despite the scandals that have plagued his leadership, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s popularity remains high as his term comes to an end due to his success in improving security conditions…
The United Nations (UN) included Colombian guerrilla groups the FARC and ELN on their list of “most persistent violators of children in conflict” in an annual report on children and…
The Thursday takeover of a Bogota university’s central square by armed ELN guerrillas was an act of aggression against the university, claims the rector, Moises Wasserman, on Friday. According to Wasserman,…
Armed guerrillas wearing ELN bandanas and armbands occupied the central square of Bogota’s main university on Thursday. Under an ELN banner, the guerrillas, armed with semiautomatic weapons and pistols, stood…
Some 2,335 women have demobilized from illegal armed groups since 2006, many of them in order to have children, according to the Defense Ministry’s Office for Humanitarian Aid to the…
Colombian guerrilla movement the ELN threatens “military action” against politicians in the country’s eastern Arauca department from the parties Cambio Radical and Partido de la U, which support Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, reports Notillano.com Friday. The…
One of Colombia’s most notorious drug-trafficking gangs “Los Rastrojos” sent threatening emails and letters to over 60 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), senators and human rights activists, Colombian human rights NGO the…
The Wiwa indigenous community, of which many had to leave their native lands surrounding the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region during the forced mass displacements of 2004-2006, continue to…
Sixteen teachers in the western Colombian department of Cauca were forced to flee their homes and jobs after receiving death threats, Colombian media reported Monday. The teachers, who work in…