Ex-president Andres Pastrana, who led the failed 1998-2002 negotiations with Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC, said Sunday the guerrillas are “setting the agenda” in ongoing peace talks with the government.…
The main areas of FARC activity have shifted from central to southwestern Colombia, according to a new report published on Thursday from conflict-monitoring NGO Nuevo Arco Iris. The report, called “From…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, will on Thursday afternoon release the two German tourists captured by the rebels in November last year, Red Cross representatives said. According to…
A high-ranking leader of the drug-trafficking group Los Rastrojos has been captured in the Central American country of Panama, local media reported on Wednesday. PROFILE: Los Rastrojos According to Panamanian authorities,…
Marcos Calarca, one of the leading FARC negotiators at the ongoing peace talks with the Colombian government in Havana, Cuba, said on Thursday former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was a…
A Colombian drug trafficker considered one of the leading members of the mafia in the capital Bogota has been captured in Ecuador. Ecuadorean police said alias “Mosquito” was one of…
Spanish authorities announced on Thursday “The Bogota Platform,” a plan to reinforce the struggle against transatlantic drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe. The Spanish interior minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz,…
Rebels from Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the ELN, on Wednesday blew up a section of an oil pipeline in the northeastern Arauca department. Local media reported activity at the…
The Colombian government and the coffee strikers temporarily suspended negotiations on Thursday after having failed to reach an agreement on subsidies for the country’s coffee sector. MORE: Colombian govt meets…