Southwest is Colombia’s most violent region: coroner’s office
The southwest of Colombia continued to have the country’s highest homicide rate in 2010, according to a report released by the national coroner’s office. The government body, which is in…
The southwest of Colombia continued to have the country’s highest homicide rate in 2010, according to a report released by the national coroner’s office. The government body, which is in…
Indigenous communities in the southwest Colombian department of Cauca find themselves in the middle of increasingly heated battles between national forces and the FARC, according to an indigenous association press…
The military disabled a car bomb believed to have been placed by the FARC in the south Colombian Cauca department, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The car was set to…
Police have discovered evidence of 67 alleged FARC terrorist plots aimed at disrupting elections in the Cauca department in southwest Colombia, CM& reports Monday. President Santos announced Saturday that Colombia’s armed…
Three policemen were killed and one was injured in an attack by FARC guerrillas in a town in the southwest of Colombia, local media reported Sunday. According to reports, a…
Colombia’s armed forces killed 15 FARC guerrillas in the south-western Cauca department, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Saturday. According to Santos, the killed guerrillas belong to the FARC’s special forces…
Colombia’s Supreme Court called the former governor of the Cauca department to trial to respond to allegations he made pacts with paramilitary death squads. Juan Jose Chaux Mosquera will have…
An alleged FARC attack on a police station in the department of Nariño left one soldier dead while wounding four others, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The attack occurred in the…
Extradited former AUC commander Ever Veloza, alias “H.H.,” has claimed that the government of ex-President Alvaro Uribe pressured him to keep quiet about paramilitary ties to politicians, the military and…