Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 22, 2013 | News
A Venezuelan politician claimed Thursday the armed forces of his country were turning a blind eye on Colombian ELN rebels on Venezuelan territory. “The guerrilla columns march on the roads of Tachira [western Venezuela]...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 22, 2013 | News
Rebels from Colombia’s second largest rebel group, ELN, blew up a section of an oil pipeline and killed a policeman in the northeastern Arauca department, local media reported Thursday. According to the Colombian...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 21, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, on Thursday called for free and universal education to be included in peace talks, in order to address the development deficit between rural and urban Colombia. The most significant...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 21, 2013 | News
The Colombian State on Tuesday has expropriated $5 million dollars found during an operation which resulted in the death of a top commander of rebel group FARC, in November 2011. Following the raid that resulted in the killing...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 20, 2013 | News
An alleged army report said alias “Carlos Pesebre,” the captured “leader” of Medellin’s largest crime syndicate Oficina de Envigado, could have been seeking a peace deal with the neo-paramilitary...
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