Exactly a week before the set start date for peace talks, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos demanded that the ELN, the country’s last standing Marxist rebel group, release all hostages. Santos said…
A Los Angeles-area judge who was kidnapped nearly a week ago while on vacation in Colombia has been freed, authorities in the South American nation said Thursday. Police said Judge…
ELN guerrillas have begun the operation to release their last confirmed hostage, but failed to effectively release him on time for the inauguration of peace talks, Colombia’s chief government negotiator said…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Wednesday vowed to internally investigate the fate of some 500 people who were kidnapped by the guerrillas but are now unaccounted for. The guerrillas…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, released the first proof-of-life video of a politician who handed himself over to the guerrillas to secure his brother’s release last April. The…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, kidnapped at least five rice growers in the northeast of the country, local authorities said Wednesday. When the alleged kidnapping initially was reported late…
Dozens of Colombia’s most prominent and leftist non-government organizations have urged rebel group ELN to release its hostages and formalize peace talks with the government. So far, the ELN has…
While leftist guerrilla groups like the FARC and ELN used to be the main culprit of kidnappings in Colombia, this role has now almost entirely been taken over by common…
A chilling video has emerged of an alleged Dutch tourist escaping his alleged kidnappers along the rooftops of Bogota’s most infamous drug area, the Bronx.