The Colombian Conservative Party says Colombia’s military justice reform will give “guarantees to the Armed Forces in their [fight] against terrorism.” The party expressed its disagreement with the demand to…
A young woman was killed and eight more civilians on Wednesday were wounded by landmines allegedly planted by FARC guerrillas in the northwestern department of Antioquia. Santiago Londoño, the government…
The Canadian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said it was “helping” Colombian authorities search for the Canadian citizen who was kidnapped by left-wing guerrillas in late January. Canada’s foreign ministry told…
A 13-year-old boy was killed on Saturday after refusing to give 200 pesos (ten cents) to a thief in Colombia’s capital city of Bogota. According to police, the boy, Nicolas…
Colombian airline Avianca said Tuesday it would cancel several flights due to a strike at Spanish airline Iberia. Avianca announced the cancelation of the 026 Bogota-Madrid and 027 Madrid-Bogota flights…
Colombia’s defense ministry claimed Monday that policemen captured by the rebel group FARC in late January and released last week have been subject to “torture.” “The heroes were subject to…
Colombia’s two main left-wing guerrilla groups FARC and ELN Monday announced the forming of an alliance to increase attacks against state security forces and to sabotage large-scale multinational projects in…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Monday said that the Canadian miner kidnapped by the group in late January will “remain” in captivity. “The Canadian engineer Jernoc Wobert…is…
In a weekend chalk full of rebel violence, members of the FARC — Colombia’s largest left-wing guerrilla group — destroy electricity towers, kill soldiers, and burn several buses in the…