Peace talks with Colombia’s ELN rebel group After 52 years of bloody armed conflict and three years of some secret and some informal negotiations, the Colombian state and the ELN, the country’s…
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A landslide in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, killed six family members and wounded three others on Thursday. Most of those killed in the tragedy were children. Among the dead…
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Colombian government and the FARC to begin implementing the peace agreement to avoid violence. While the statement “congratulates all who participated constructively…
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) congratulated Colombia on its “improved” peace deal, despite ongoing concerns about justice for war criminals. Transitional justice was one of the most controversial aspects of the first…
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Makeshift roadblocks dot communities in the north of Colombia’s Cauca province as locals form unarmed watch groups, claiming authorities are ignoring a wave of violence in the region. The 80-man-strong Peasant Security force…
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Peace talks with Colombia’s last standing rebel group, the ELN, should have started two weeks ago today, but are stuck still. A hostage for prisoner exchange should end the impasse. After more…
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Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos was examined on Tuesday amid fears of a possible relapse of the prostate cancer he was treated for in 2012. The president was undergoing tests in the Santa Fe…
With 70 members killed and 232 having received death threats, the leader of social umbrella organization Patriotic March urged authorities to prevent the repetition of a political “genocide” that all but…
Snipers, in apparent collusion with Colombia’s National Army, are responsible for the first breach of a ceasefire between the FARC and the government that killed two guerrillas, locals claim. Colombia’s chief government peace…
Colombia’s last remaining rebel group, the ELN, allegedly killed two police officers and bombed an oil pipeline in the northeast of the country on Sunday amid stalled peace talks. A hit-and-run attack on…