Colombia displacement statistics
More than 7 million people were displaced during Colombia’s armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. Before this government agency took charge of maintaining the registry of conflict victims,…
More than 7 million people were displaced during Colombia’s armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. Before this government agency took charge of maintaining the registry of conflict victims,…
The Palace of Justice siege refers to the 1985 occupation of Colombia’s Supreme Court building by M-19 guerrillas, and the subsequent violent military retake that cost the lives of at least a 100 people,…
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, formally extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal per year. However, the vast majority of gold mining in Colombia is informal,…
The ELN, Colombia’s largest and oldest rebel group after the FARC, will engage in peace talks with the government for the eighth time since the group’s formation in 1964. These…
Since the group’s first appearance in 1964, Colombia’s government has engaged in peace talks with the ELN seven times, but never succeeded to convince the Marxist rebels to demobilize and disarm. The…
Colombia’s government will inaugurate formal peace talks with the ELN for the seventh time since the Marxist group was formed in 1964. These are the government negotiators. The chief negotiator is former…
Colombia’s peace process with Marxist FARC rebels is by far the most significant step towards peace since the demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC between 2003 and 2006. The process began on December 1,…
After 52 years of bloody armed conflict and more than five years of talks, the Colombian state and the FARC, the country’s largest leftist rebel group, have agreed to make peace. The…
The Pacific Alliance is a free trade agreement that, among other things, reduces tariffs for goods exchanged between its four member countries: Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, joined by their…