Indigenous in a third of Colombia marched on Wednesday to demand the government honors a peace agreement with FARC guerrillas, end the ongoing assassination of leaders and ends land-grabbing. In…
Pamphlets signed by the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, confirmed the paramilitaries’ apparent attempt to consolidate power in former FARC territories throughout the country. While some 7,000 FARC guerrillas are still in rural camps…
Local authorities are “overwhelmed” by the chaos and violence that submerged the southwest of Colombia following the demobilization of Marxist FARC guerrillas, the governor of Nariño said Tuesday. Nariño is the home…
Resistance to Colombia’s efforts to forcibly eradicate coca is causing uprisings across the country and moving into new levels of militancy, as shown by civilians’ detention of 11 policemen in the southwest…
Colombia’s Defense Minister claimed Tuesday that 117 members of not-demobilized urban militias of disarming guerrilla group FARC demobilized. The demobilized armed men said to be demobilized members of the FARC’s urban militia in…
Colombian authorities arrested 15 prosecution officials for working for a drug trafficker tied to both FARC guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries. The two prosecutors, two assistant prosecutors and 11 investigators were…
Two people died and 23 were injured when unknown assailants threw a grenade into a bar early Tuesday in Colombia’s most southwestern city, Tumaco. Tumaco’s government secretary, Edwin Palma, told W Radio that…
Four officers from the Colombian Navy were arrested for allowing drug trafficking operations they were supposed to counter, reported El Espectador newspaper on Sunday. The officers, two of whom are…
Colombia’s last remaining rebel group, the ELN, allegedly killed two police officers and bombed an oil pipeline in the northeast of the country on Sunday amid stalled peace talks. A hit-and-run attack on…