Opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba announced Tuesday that the FARC is ready to sit down and negotiate with the Colombian government without the precondition of establishing a demilitarized zone. Cordoba said…
The Nicaraguan army on Wednesday denied that weapons from its arsenal were smuggled into Colombia by an international arms trafficking gang, which was recently dismantled by Colombian authorities. General Julio…
Colombia’s world-famous Barranquilla Carnival is not just an excuse for a giant party on the Caribbean coast – for writer and linguist Marlene Luna it is a fascinating tradition which…
Colombian astronaut Diego Urbina will be part of a four-man international crew carrying out a 520-day simulation of a trip to Mars. Urbina will be accompanied on the mission, which…
Seven guerillas from the leftist insurgent group ELN were captured by Colombian authorities on Tuesday in the Norte de Santander department. Units of the Colombian military’s 30th Brigade reported that…
Senator Piedad Cordoba announced via her Twitter page on Tuesday that the FARC have accepted and signed the security protocol needed to move forward with the long-delayed hostage release operation,…
In Washington, family members of eleven victims of the 1985 Palace of Justice siege asked the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to accept a report…
After a two year-long investigation, Colombia’s intelligence service DAS and the navy have busted an international group smuggling arms from Central America to gangs in Colombia, according to a DAS…
According to local police commander Gustavo Adolfo Ricaurte, leftist guerilla group the FARC torched seven semi-trucks Monday night in the western Colombian Valle del Cauca department. The incident, which occurred…