Dutch guerrilla Tanja Nijmeijer revealed Tuesday that, before his death, the FARC’s slain military commander “Mono Jojoy” was dedicated to an orchestra that he created in his jungle encampment. In…
Medellin inaugurated Colombia’s first mega-escalator Monday for swifter passage up the hillside of the city’s most dangerous district, Comuna 13. The $6.9 million dollar public works project is the first…
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC revealed Tuesday the names of three of six hostages who are expected to be released in the coming month. In a statement to former senator…
Colombian police captured seven alleged FARC rebels Monday in the southwestern department of Huila. The seven arrested were supposed members of the FARC’s Teofilo Forero Column operating in the town…
Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN vowed Monday to continue its war against the state in order to achieve “real peace” in the country. The rebels said on their website…
Colombia’s Inspector General banned outgoing Magdalena Governor Omar Diaz-Granados Monday from holding public office for 15 years for overrunning costs on school kits purchased for children, Caracol Radio reported. According…
The former director of the investigation unit of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office was found guilty Monday of influence peddling and embezzlement. A Colombian judge placed Marilu Mendez under house arrest for…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC is expected to release six hostages in January, said Carlos Lozano, director of a communist magazine and member of Piedad Cordoba’s organization Colombians for Peace…
Some 1,600 members of Colombia’s excint socialist party Union Patriotica (UP) were murdered between 1984 and 1997, according to a new book. With his book, Union Patriotica (Patriotic Union), researcher…