US calls for help for Colombian refugees in Ecuador
The U.S. has called on the international community to pay more attention to Colombian refugees in Ecuador, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. On a visit to Ecuador, Assistant Secretary of State…
The U.S. has called on the international community to pay more attention to Colombian refugees in Ecuador, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday. On a visit to Ecuador, Assistant Secretary of State…
On a state visit to the central department of Meta, President Juan Manuel Santos reaffirmed his government’s commitment to peace and warned the FARC against continuing violence. Speaking in the…
Despite divisions over the draft of the government’s Victims Law, which regulates compensation for victims of Colombia’s conflict, the bill will go to the Senate Tuesday with signatures from all…
The Interior and Justice Ministry has announced that an ex-guerrilla implicated in the alleged fake demobilization of a FARC front in 2006 is no longer the government’s “Manager of Peace.”…
The Liberal Party and President Juan Manuel Santos’ Partido de la U fail to reach a consensus over the draft bill of the Victims Law. The draft was tabled for discussion…
After a week of negotiations, 2,000 people displaced from Bajo Cauca to Taraza in the Antioquia department reach an agreement with the local government to return home. The exodus began…
Poor personal and institutional relations within the Colombian government were detrimental to the demobilization process according to a WikiLeaks cable released via El Espectador. In the cable dated June 5,…
A WikiLeaks cable released Sunday reveals how rumors began to circulate in 2008 about paramilitary involvement in the 2005 election of Colombia’s prosecutor general. In March 2010, former AUC leader…
Despite her request, jailed former congresswoman Yidis Medina will not be identified as a victim of the illegal wiretapping carried out by Colombian intelligence agency DAS. Medina was sentenced to…