Drug traffickers in southwest Colombia were already using drones to protect drug shipments, but are now arming the unarmed aircraft with explosives, according to the military. Explosives experts of the…
Colombia’s ELN rebels cut off southwest Colombia from the rest of the country on Monday to commemorate the group’s 55th anniversary. The guerrillas ordered locals in the west of the…
Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE) raised the alarm about possible voter fraud in multiple provinces and the country’s second largest city, Medellin. The alarm was raised about suspicious increases in…
At least four soldiers were killed in an guerrilla ambush in southwest Colombia, the security forces said Thursday. The attack allegedly took place early in the evening in Cumbitara, a…
Colombia’s army can’t seem to shake a decades-old habit of covering up extrajudicial executions by claiming having guerrillas killed in combat. On Wednesday, a press statement from a farmers’ association…
La Constru is a paramilitary group that is active in Putumayo, one of Colombia’s most important coca cultivation regions and strategically located along the Ecuadorean border. The group first manifested itself in…
The United Nations, the European Union and press organizations on Tuesday condemned the assassination of a journalist in southwest Colombia. Radio host Libardo Montenegro of local radio station Samaniega Estereo…
Four members of the native Colombian Awa people have been murdered in southwest Colombia over the past week as the community is caught in the crossfire of a drug-fueled turf…