The FARC announced Tuesday that the newly-formed political party will celebrate its former guerrilla commander “Mono Jojoy” on Friday, drawing fierce criticism. The former guerrilla group’s new political party, the…
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Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
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When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their demobilization benefited numerous unaffiliated drug traffickers. Demobilized former FARC guerrillas are now helping to prevent a repetition in their…
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The escape of the FARC’s 27th Front commander is spurring concerns about desertion of demobilized commanders and combatants. How worried should Colombia be? The country’s peace process partly depends on…
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The justice minister has drafted a bill that would regulate the demobilization of illegal armed groups like the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo.” The AGC…
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Colombia’s envoy to the United Nations says he is having discussions on a request for U.N. assistance in verifying commitments in a temporary ceasefire agreement signed by the government and…
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The former commander of the FARC’s demobilized 27th front escaped his guards with the help of armed men in southern Colombia, local media reported Sunday. Former 27th Front commander Edgar…
The United Nations in Colombia said the international organization has retrieved 750 weapons caches from demobilized FARC guerrillas, leaving almost 250 to the security forces. Until the end of its…
Colombia’s now-demobilized FARC guerrillas used several NGOs to help compose the demobilization list that proved to contain unaffiliated criminals in order to allow them to obtain judicial leniency as part of…
The Colombian government has denied the integration of some 2,800 common criminals in a peace process with the now-demobilized FARC guerrilla group, the peace commissioner said. According to figures given…