Ongoing combat between the Colombian army and FARC guerrillas in the south-western department of Cauca left at least one policemen and two guerrillas dead. Six soldiers are reportedly injured. The…
An attack by armed men killed one policeman and gravely injured two others in southwest Colombia’s Cauca department, local media reported Friday. The men apparently shot at town police in a motorcycle…
A mayoral candidate for a municipality in Colombia’s southern Cauca department was shot and killed in his home on Wednesay night. Liberal Party candidate Ilvio Gentil Gomez, who had served…
Colombian authorities seized and destroyed 14 tons of marijuana in the country’s southwest Cauca department on Tuesday. The drugs were seized in a joint operation by the police, army and…
A FARC attack Monday night on police headquarters in Colombia’s southern Cauca department has killed four and gravely injured 16, local media reported. Officials reported that the police barracks were…
Colombia will denounce the FARC before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for enlisting child soldiers, reported Caracol Radio Wednesday. Guillermo Albert Gonzalez, governor of the Cauca department where the recruitment…
Former Colombian Congressman Jose Gerardo Piamba was arrested Wednesday on court orders for involvement in a housing fraud scandal in the Cauca department, local media reported. The Supreme Court of…
Recent guerrilla violence in the south-west Colombian Cauca department is due to the FARC‘s attempt to recover an important drug route from central Colombia to the Pacific, said the governor…
One policeman has been killed and two civilians injured as a helicopter transporting bank money was attacked by alleged members of the FARC in the southwest Colombian department of Cauca,…