Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 27, 2013 | Economy
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Wednesday expressed solidarity with the thousands of coffee growers currently on strike while criticizing the government’s neoliberal economic model for exasperating the...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 26, 2013 | Culture
Somos Pacifico, a new techno-cultural center in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, aims to bring education in computers, music, English and design to hundreds of young people in the city’s violent and economically...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 26, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Tuesday said it was not responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of acres of land from the Colombian people. Contrary to numerous reports of the guerrillas operating...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 26, 2013 | News
An attack on Monday attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, left one policeman and one civilian dead and at least13 more wounded in the southwestern Putumayo department. FARC guerrillas allegedly threw six bars...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Feb 25, 2013 | War and peace
One of the leaders of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, on Sunday said that they are not a drug trafficking organization and though they have entered into peace negotiations with the government, they have not...
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