With the FARC in the process of leaving behind their areas of influence to demobilize and reintegrate into society, coca growers in Colombia are increasingly worried about their safety and…
As Colombia’s Congress debates the transitional justice system that was agreed to in the peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebels, concrete steps are being taken to put judges in place to…
The United States has changed its visa requirements on Wednesday. Here is how this affects Colombians wanting to visit the North American country. According to the US Embassy in Colombia…
A young woman in a town outside of Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, told authorities on Wednesday that she killed her baby daughter because she looked like her father, reported local…
Colombia’s EPL guerrilla group released nine hostages on Sunday, a day after kidnapping them in a northeastern department along the Venezuela border, local media reported. The nine hostages kidnapped on…
The surrender of child soldiers of the Marxist FARC guerrilla group will begin on February 1, Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace announced on Thursday. High Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo emphasized that this…
The FARC, Colombia’s largest rebel group, suggested postponing its demobilization, citing the Colombian government’s continued inability to prepare the camps where guerrillas should demobilize and disarm. Rodrigo Londoño, a.k.a. Timochenko, took to Twitter…
Colombia’s opposition called on Congress to freeze an ongoing peace process with the FARC after the guerrillas failed to surrender child soldiers as promised. On Wednesday, Democratic Center senator and…
Colombia’s military on Sunday claimed the capture of an assassins chief for the ELN, the country’s last standing Marxist rebel group. The head of the ELN’s hitmen in Arauca, known as…