Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday “concrete agreements” on agrarian reform could be reached in the coming days at the ongoing peace talks between the government and the country’s…
Attacks attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, decreased in April as rebel and government negotiators were aiming to advance in the ongoing peace talks.
Armed men on Tuesday raided a hospital in the Colombian city of Medellin, freeing a prominent member of drug trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos.”
Following a national forum on the FARC’s future political participation, more than 400 proposals will be handed over to the rebel and government negotiators in Havana, Cuba.
The Colombian army on Monday rescued an 84-year-old businessman kidnapped by ELN rebels in the southwestern Nariño department.
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC on Tuesday said that the judiciary does not have the “competence” to judge members of the organization.
The neo-paramilitary “Los Urabeños” organization has arrived in Cauca’s strategically important Pacific coast, threatening to further cement their status as Colombia’s only nationwide drug gang, the local Ombudsman said.
The leading government negotiator at the FARC-government peace talks, Humberto de la Calle, says the Colombian armed forces will not be reduced despite demands from the FARC.
An attack attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC on Saturday left two civilians dead and some 11 people wounded in the northeastern Arauca department.