The salary of the news director at Bogota’s public TV network is higher than that of the Colombian president, according to Semana magazine. Renowned journalist Gonzalo Guillen exposed in an op-ed…
Communities living near demobilization camps for FARC guerrillas have claimed the chaotic demobilization and disarmament of the group proves the government is hardly committed to properly implement the peace deal. Both the FARC…
Colombia has made 56 arrests in investigations into the killings of 133 community leaders and rights activists that have taken place since the beginning of 2016. Assassins of four leaders have been convicted,…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court found that there has been an increase in forced displacement in areas in the west of the country previously controlled by Marxist FARC guerrillas, local media reported. The…
Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes in the Pacific region of Colombia after fighting broke out between Marxist ELN guerrillas and their paramilitary rivals, the AGC, a.k.a.…
With at least 23 social leaders killed in three months of peace with the FARC, community leaders are terrified they are at the dawn of a wave of paramilitary violence…
Almost 53 years after they took to arms, Colombia’s FARC rebels began disarming on Wednesday as a part of a peace agreement they signed with the government last November. Under…
After weeks of delays, the United Nations observers confirmed on Tuesday that Colombia’s FARC rebels will begin disarming on Wednesday. The start date of the three-step demobilization process had been challenged by…
One of Colombia’s main gold exporting companies, S & JIL SAS, used homeless and deceased people to launder money worth almost $450,000, the Prosecutor General said on Sunday. Six people…