Saturday 25th May 2013,
Colombian cyclist Rigoberto Uran, acting team leader of Sky, climbed to second place in the general classification of the Giro d’Italia following an excellent performance in a harsh 20th stage.
Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, should come up with “intelligent solutions” regarding the rebels’ possible disarmament, said one of the guerrillas’ negotiators Thursday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos called the economic ties formed at the seventh summit of the Pacific Alliance ‘historic’ reported local media on Thursday.
The U.S. dollar will continue its growth trend and could climb to COP1,900 this year, an economist said Thursday.
Three soldiers and two guerrillas have been killed in combat with Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, in the northwestern department of Antioquia, the army said Thursday.
Colombia’s security forces in 2012 executed 52 civilians who were then presented as enemy combatants killed in combat, according to a report by the human right NGO CINEP.
Peace negotiators of the Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group FARC on Sunday in Cuba will present progress made in peace talks during a protocolary act in Havana.
United States Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Colombia will focus on the country’s security progress and aims to “reaffirm the strong bilateral relationship between the two nations,” White House Full Article »
Three policemen and the director of a local migration office were killed near the Venezuelan border in an attack attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, local media reported Full Article »
A senator of Colombia’s Liberal Party said Thursday that if the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, fails to apologize to the victims of the war, the peace process is Full Article »
