The United States’ soon-to-be-released official 2016 report on coca cultivation in Colombia reveals that cultivation of the illicit crop in Colombia has gone up 38% since the start of the $10 billion counter-narcotics strategy…
Colombia’s government is debating a series of ambitious political reforms designed to open up political processes and weed out corruption. Controversy guaranteed. The proposal includes extending the presidential term to five…
Colombia’s military is failing to enter former FARC territories, effectively allowing paramilitary groups and drug gangs to fill the void and set in motion a new wave of terror, homicides and forced…
Colombia’s ambassador to the United States on Thursday urged US Congress to support the “Peace Colombia” aid package pledged last year by former President Barack Obama, but which is still without…
A human rights defender was attacked and left critically injured by gang members in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, late Sunday night. According to local media, the 39-year-old Yudy Andrea Seguro,…
The President of Ireland will be visiting Colombia early next week to meet with President Juan Manuel Santos and discuss the South American country’s ongoing peace process. President Michael Higgins’…
The ongoing demobilization of the FARC is “going well,” Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday, in spite of an abundance of evidence and claims the process couldn’t possibly be…
‘Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe has distanced himself from his long-time political prodigy and former presidential candidate amid accusations he accepted bribes from Brazilian firm Odebrecht. Zuluaga, the 2014 presidential…
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebel group to speed up the release of the child soldiers among their ranks,…