FARC hostages’ families call on govt to aid release
Relatives of hostages that the FARC have announced to free call on the Colombian government to accede to the rebels’ conditions for the release, reports ABC. The guerrilla group said…
Relatives of hostages that the FARC have announced to free call on the Colombian government to accede to the rebels’ conditions for the release, reports ABC. The guerrilla group said…
Members of the European Parliament say that the E.U.’s free trade agreement with Colombia should not be approved as there has been little progress on human rights in the Andean…
The Colombian army captured the second-in-command to paramilitary drug lord “El Cuchillo,” who is one of the country’s most wanted fugitives, reports Caracol Radio. The 8th Brigade of the army’s…
Colombia’s largest rebel group the FARC on Wednesday announced plans to release five hostages. In an open letter to former Senator Piedad Cordoba, published on FARC-friendly website Anncol, the rebels’…
The Ministry of Transportat reports that 134 of Colombia’s main roads in 15 out of 32 departments have been damaged in this year’s rainy season, reported newspaper El Tiempo on…
The School of Peace at Barcelona’s Autonomous University wrote an open letter to Colombian guerrilla group the ELN asking the rebels to begin peace talks with the government, El Tiempo…
Assassins killed four members of one family in the southern Colombian city of Cali on Wednesday in an apparent revenge attack. The multiple homicide appears to be the work of…
Twenty-three coalition lawmakers block a vote on a law intended to regulate compensation for victims of Colombia’s conflict. Many of the House representatives declared that they unable to vote due…
Seven children and three adults were injured in Bogota on Wednesday when an explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed the apartment they were in. The explosion took place in…