Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 11, 2013 | News
In the first two months of 2013 alone, 114 people disappeared from Colombia’s third largest city of Cali, representing a 8% increase in disappearances over the same period in 2012, reported the Cali Ombudsman’s...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 10, 2013 | War and peace
Ex-president Andres Pastrana, who led the failed 1998-2002 negotiations with Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC, said Sunday the guerrillas are “setting the agenda” in ongoing peace talks with the government....
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 7, 2013 | News
The main areas of FARC activity have shifted from central to southwestern Colombia, according to a new report published on Thursday from conflict-monitoring NGO Nuevo Arco Iris. The report, called “From Caguan to...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 7, 2013 | News
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, will on Thursday afternoon release the two German tourists captured by the rebels in November last year, Red Cross representatives said. According to local media, the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 7, 2013 | News
A high-ranking leader of the drug-trafficking group Los Rastrojos has been captured in the Central American country of Panama, local media reported on Wednesday. PROFILE: Los Rastrojos According to Panamanian authorities, Alex...
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