Colombia’s prosecutor general has suspended 191 arrest warrants against 27 FARC guerrillas to help facilitate peace talks between the insurgents and the government. Of the 191 arrest warrants being temporarily…
In the worst imaginable way, Colombia’s FARC guerrillas this morning opened talks with President Juan Manuel Santos’ government to end their five-decade war against the state. Ivan Marquez, head of…
FARC negotiator “Ivan Marquez” on Thursday rejected the possibility that members of the guerrilla group are sent to jail after reaching a negotiated end of Colombia’s armed conflict, claiming his…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said Thursday it wants a peace deal with the government to include comprehensive social and economic reforms and a less intensive cooperation with the United…
The Colombian government and FARC rebels announced Thursday the official beginning of a “serious, dignified and efficient” process that should lead to the end of the country’s half a century…
A Colombian court sentenced five prominent FARC leaders to 40 years in prison in absentia Monday for their involvement in a 1998 attack against an army base in the country’s…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC denied it has been weakened and says the rebels’ “struggle” for a socialist Colombia is legitimized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a…
Two of the FARC’s leaders were charged Tuesday for the forced recruitment of minors by their guerrilla group. Human right prosecutors charged Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, alias “Timochenko” and Luciano Marin Arango,…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez secretly invited him to capture FARC Secretariat member “Ivan Marquez,” who is suspected to be on Venezuelan territory. In an…