‘FARC ambush’ leaves 3 police dead
Three policemen were killed and three more were wounded on Monday morning in an alleged FARC attack in Colombia’s southwest department of Cauca, El Tiempo reports. Armed FARC guerrillas allegedly…
Three policemen were killed and three more were wounded on Monday morning in an alleged FARC attack in Colombia’s southwest department of Cauca, El Tiempo reports. Armed FARC guerrillas allegedly…
Authorities raised the death toll of a traffic accident in the south western department of Cauca to 17, local media reported on Sunday. A local fire department spokesman told Caracol…
FARC attacks on the villages of Toribio and Jambalo in the Cauca department have left two policemen dead and two injured, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. A group of guerrillas attacked…
More than 15,000 Colombian refugees in Ecuador are set to return home over the next four years, according to the department for refugees, part of Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry, RCN Radio reports.…
Colombia’s national police on Tuesday seized over four tons of marijuana from a truck in the southern Valle del Cauca department, and arrested the driver. The operation was carried out…
The death toll for this year’s rainy season in Colombia is now 97, and 1 million people have been affected, the Red Cross said Monday. According to the director of the…
The FARC executed one of their commanders for questioning the future of the rebels’ armed struggle, says the commander of Colombia’s armed forces. The guerrilla, known as “El Sordo” or…
Indigenous leader Rodolfo Aricate Amaya was killed by two gunmen outside his home in the Cauca department, south-western Colombia. Amaya, a leader in the Paez community, had been receiving threats…
The Valle del Cauca region in south-west Colombia suffered a particularly violent weekend, with nine people killed in four different incidents, reports RCN Radio. In Buga, a town in the…