Victim congresswomen resigns from Peace Commission after verbal attack by FARC
A FARC victim and congresswoman has removed herself from Colombia’s Peace Commission because of comments made about her by the FARC rebel group.
A FARC victim and congresswoman has removed herself from Colombia’s Peace Commission because of comments made about her by the FARC rebel group.
Colombia’s president reiterated that the armed forces will have the same legal benefits as FARC guerrillas in an eventual peace deal but also announced the creation of a fund to…
Canada’s embassy can’t confirm or deny the “rumors” that Colombia’s fugitive peace commissioner has gotten asylum in Canada because of privacy laws.
Colombia’s senate president sent out a communique to his colleagues warning that a $400 penalty will be placed on senators who do not attend senate sessions, local media reported Monday.
In a gesture of transparency, Colombia’s government has created a webpage called MAPAregalias to track the $6.4 billion dollars in mining royalties used to finance development projects.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN on Friday called for a bilateral ceasefire, criticizing a current protocol of maintaining offensives during peace talks with the FARC as “contradictory” and “generating confusion.”
A sixth teacher has been reported murdered in Colombia this year on Tuesday, highlighting continuing challenges for President Juan Manuel Santos’s promise to make Colombia “the most educated in Latin America.”
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called on the military to maintain its offensive against leftist rebel group FARC and promised to increase soldiers’ salaries while the government is…
A taxi driver, suspect in the June 2013 murder of a DEA agent, has pleaded guilty to the charges of murder and kidnapping in a Virginia courtroom.