Posted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 26, 2011 | News
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC is expected to release six hostages in January, said Carlos Lozano, director of a communist magazine and member of Piedad Cordoba’s organization Colombians for Peace Monday. In an...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 26, 2011 | News
Some 1,600 members of Colombia’s excint socialist party Union Patriotica (UP) were murdered between 1984 and 1997, according to a new book. With his book, Union Patriotica (Patriotic Union), researcher Roberto Romero...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 26, 2011 | News
Two policeman and one civilian were wounded Sunday by a group of unknown gunmen in the northern Colombian town of Amalfi, Antioquia. The mayor of Amalfi, Miguel Angel Arbelaez, announced that both officers were in delicate...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 26, 2011 | News
The Colombian National Police announced Monday that the country’s 2011 homicide rate is the lowest in 26 years. In 2011 Colombia experienced 13,520 murders, which is the lowest since 1984 when that number equaled 10,745....
Read MorePosted by Tim Hinchliffe | Dec 23, 2011 | News
The commander of the 30th Front of leftist rebel group FARC, Jaime Renteria Mosquera, alias “Jefferson,” demobilized Friday along with nine other guerrillas from his unit. Jefferson’s group surrendered to...
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