5 killed in south-Colombia massacre
Heavily armed men murdered four adults and one child in a farmhouse in the south-Colombian Putumayo department. The massacre took place in the municipality of San Miguel, some 8 miles…
Heavily armed men murdered four adults and one child in a farmhouse in the south-Colombian Putumayo department. The massacre took place in the municipality of San Miguel, some 8 miles…
The FARC’s 48th Front has formed alliances with criminal groups to secure its drug trafficking activities in the south of Colombia, the country’s defense minister said Thursday. Minister Rodrigo Rivera,…
Armed men on Thursday killed the grandson of the mayor of a south Colombian town in a failed attempt to kidnap the mayor’s daughter. According to several media reports, the…
Four civilians and two members of the security forces were killed in Saturday in FARC attacks in the southwest of Colombia, authorities said. One soldier and three civilian coca eradicators…
More than 15,000 Colombian refugees in Ecuador are set to return home over the next four years, according to the department for refugees, part of Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry, RCN Radio reports.…
Juan Bautista Agreda Chindoy, an indigenous healer from Colombia’s Valle de Sibundoy, was arrested in Houston airport, U.S., El Tiempo reports. On October 19 the medicine man travelled to the…
Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Javier Garcia Nieto was killed this morning in Puerto Asis by an exploding mine planted by the FARC, according to a press release from the Colombian Army.…
Colombian authorities claim that the girlfriend of extradited FARC leader “Simon Trinidad” died in Sunday’s air strike on a guerrilla camp in the south of the country. Trinidad’s girlfriend Maria…
Colombia’s National Police chief Oscar Naranjo on Monday said 27 guerrillas were killed in the bombing of a FARC camp in the south of the country on Sunday. Among the…