Colombia’s congress on Thursday signed a bill that would allow the demobilization of guerrilla and paramilitary groups that refused to take part in past demobilization processes. The bill was defended…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos warned dissident members of the FARC’s 1st Front that they have two options: demobilize, or end up either in prison or six feet underground. The dissident 1st Front is…
The cost of an eventual demobilization and reintegration of the FARC will cost Colombian tax payers between $754 million and $1.1 billion, the country’s Comptroller General’s Office said Monday.
A Colombian tribunal has stripped a former paramilitary leader from legal protections he received after demobilization. According to prosecutors, “Macaco” has not kept his end of the bargain.
The ex-President Alvaro Uribe is seeking to repeal the eight-year sentence of the former leader of paramilitary organization AUC, insisting that Salvatore Mancuso lied about the involvement of the military, business,…
The FARC on Tuesday said the rebels refuse to demobilize and surrender their weapons in the event of peace during the installation of the rebel commission in charge of negotiating the end of the conflict…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office and drug lords are negotiating the dismantling of the criminal organizations, a top prosecution official said Wednesday.
Colombia’s former peace commissioner said Wednesday that the army needs to answer for the staged demobilization of a non-existent FARC front for which he is being investigated.
The pope of the Roman Catholic Church received at the Vatican the Director of Colombia’s Reintegration Agency (ACR), accompanied by two demobilized combatants, and a victim on Tuesday.