UK pledges long term support to Colombia’s peace process
The United Kingdom pledged their long-term support to Colombia’s peace process with the FARC rebels following a visit by the British Foreign Secretary to the South American country.
The United Kingdom pledged their long-term support to Colombia’s peace process with the FARC rebels following a visit by the British Foreign Secretary to the South American country.
In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands of its demobilized members were assassinated. FARC rebels, currently negotiating peace with the government, could await the same fate.
Colombia’s authorities are targeting three contractors who allegedly embezzled more than $10 million from vital school feeding programs on the Caribbean coast, local media reported.
Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, thanked Colombia for its assistance in the crisis following last week’s earthquake.
Colombia security is severely under threat at the hands of illegal paramilitary groups, according to a report published last week by conflict monitoring NGO Indepaz.
More than 3,000 people have been displaced in western Colombia amid fighting between left-wing ELN rebels, their neo-paramilitary rivals “Los Urabeños” and the army, according to authorities.
A key witness in a multi-million dollar scrap metal embezzlement scam in which the sons of former President Alvaro Uribe have been implicated, has died following an assassination attempt, local media reported…
The chief of Colombia’s state-run oil company was forced to make a public apology after insulting a university professor by claiming the scholar was below “my own level.”
Colombia’s education minister came in for severe criticism from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Thursday at the presentation of a report on education in the South American country.