After 11 days of strikes the Colombian government, farmers and ethnic minority protesters have agreed to negotiations. The protesters promised to temporarily open the Panamerican highway as a sign of goodwill.
After more than 10 days of major social unrest in Colombia’s countryside, the government and protesters have yet to agree to formal talks as a possible escalation of violence looms.
The Colombian Government has sent a commission of ministers to negotiate with leaders of ongoing indigenous and rural protests that have been blocking roads across the country.
Colombia’s congress approved a law that judicially shields a pending peace deal with rebels group FARC from possible changes by later administrations. Opponents of the talks are furious.
A chilling video has emerged of an alleged Dutch tourist escaping his alleged kidnappers along the rooftops of Bogota’s most infamous drug area, the Bronx.
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe explicitly refused to meet with the FARC leader “Timochenko” to discuss his opposition to the ongoing peace talks in Havana. During his time as President of…
Colombia has identified the remains of approximately 500 children after exhuming the remains of thousands of unidentified minors killed during the country’s 52-year-long armed conflict. As peace talks between the government…
Riot police and the army raided the Bronx, central Bogota’s infamous drug dealing area, driving out thousands of homeless addicts, only for them to invade another part of the city.
Colombia’s Ministry of Health fears that a more virulent strain of the swine flu virus may have evolved in the capital Bogota, claiming the lives of 23 people this year already.