580 indigenous Colombians have fled their lands near the Ecuadorean border to escape fighting between rebel guerrilla group FARC and the Colombian military. 108 families, 77 of which were indigenous…
Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala have sent a joint declaration to the United Nations’ Secretary General pleading for an international conference in order to revise UN drug policy. “The governments of Colombia,…
Bus driver protests in Colombia’s third largest city of Cali turn into chaos with several people allegedly suffering burn injuries from a firebomb Tuesday. Bus drivers have been protesting against…
Human rights organizations said on Tuesday that the investigations of extrajudicial killings, known in Colombia as “false positives,” need to be “treated as crimes systematically produced and not as isolated…
An alleged member of the upper echelon of Colombia’s drug mafia, alias “Alitas,” was captured on a luxurious farm in northwestern Colombia Tuesday. The alleged kingpin was arrested in Girardot,…
Rebels from the guerrilla group FARC have allegedly been injured and one killed on Monday as a result of a recently intensified police offensive in Colombia’s southern department of Caqueta.…
The start date of the peace talks between rebel guerrilla group FARC and the Colombian government has been delayed from October 8 and will now allegedly start on the 15th,…
Colombia’s interior minister confirmed Monday that an electoral reform the government plans to present to Congress still does not permit congressional seats for guerrilla group FARC with whom the government…
During a joint operation the Colombian Navy and Air Force identified a drug trafficking plane and subsequently engaged in a gun fight with the plane’s crew upon its landing. The…