Extortion in Colombia: Crime groups filling FARC void
Extortion fell 18% in Colombia last year as FARC rebels signed peace with the government. However, crime and paramilitary successor groups are filling the void, according to an NGO and the…
Extortion fell 18% in Colombia last year as FARC rebels signed peace with the government. However, crime and paramilitary successor groups are filling the void, according to an NGO and the…
Colombia’s government and the country’s last standing Marxist rebel group, the ELN, both have called on former President Alvaro Uribe to take part in peace talks due to begin on February 7. President…
There were violent clashes between protesters and police in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Sunday as bullfighting returned to the capital after a two-year ban. Protesters took to the streets screaming slogans…
The President of France arrived in Colombia on Sunday in a show of support for the ongoing peace process between the FARC rebels and the government amid a looming diplomatic…
Colombian cyclist Nairo Quintana told local media on Wednesday that he will not take part in the Vuelta d’España in 2017 in order to prioritize both the Giro d’Italia and…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday criticized several aspects of a transitional justice deal between the government and Marxist FARC rebels currently debated in Congress. Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez sharply questioned…
Colombia police has arrested the former bodyguard of an ex-presidential candidate who was assassinated on board a domestic flight almost 27 years ago, reported El Tiempo newspaper. A former agent of the now-defunct intelligence…
Colombia’s FARC rebels will soon provide the government with details of the locations of the child soldiers within their ranks according to a statement made by the High Commissioner for…
A former governor of the La Guajira province in Northern Colombia was on Monday sentenced to 55 years in prison for his involvement in a triple murder. Juan Francisco “Kiko”…