Eastern Colombia shuts down as ELN steps up pressure on Santos
While peace talks with Colombia’s second largest rebel group seem to be as stuck as ever, the ELN shut down the east of the country. From Monday to Wednesday, nobody in the provinces…
While peace talks with Colombia’s second largest rebel group seem to be as stuck as ever, the ELN shut down the east of the country. From Monday to Wednesday, nobody in the provinces…
Almost 1,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the northeast of Colombia over the past three weeks amid heavy fighting between the military and illegal armed groups, the…
The town halls of two municipalities in central and northeast Colombia were attacked and one was destroyed when protests turned violent. The incidents took place in Puerto Santander, a town on…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday he will seek a private talk with his his counterpart from Venezuela to come a quick reopening of the border between the two countries.
Five hundred hungry Venezuelan women rushed across a bridge into Colombia in defiance of a year-long border closure in search of basic foods and commodities that have grown scarce at…
Snipers have reportedly killed at least eight members of Colombia’s security forces in the virtually lawless northeastern province of Norte de Santander so far this year. The province for decades has been…
The ELN released two kidnapped television reporters Friday, the day that a Spanish journalist clarified she had also been kidnapped exactly a week ago on Saturday.
Spanish journalist Salud Hernandez has been released by ELN rebels after days of uncertainty of her whereabouts, her primary employer, newspaper El Tiempo, reported Friday. According to El Tiempo, the…
Colombia requested the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday to seek the safe return of three missing journalists in the north of the country.