Colombia’s defense minister told Congress that FARC dissident group EMC used a ceasefire with the security forces to strengthen their control over the Cauca province. Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez was…
The father and a nephew of Colombia’s Vice-President Francia Marquez survived a gun attack in the southwest of Colombia. According to authorities, the car of Sigifredo Marquez was attacked while…
Illegal armed groups that hold a major guerrilla stronghold in southwest Colombia “are better armed than the security forces,” according to a top security official from the Cauca province. The…
Colombia’s peace commissioner and rearmed guerrilla chief “Ivan Marquez” announced new peace talks. In a press statement, Peace Commissioner Otty Patiño and Marquez’s group, Segunda Marquetalia, said that the peace…
Negotiators of Colombia’s government and ELN guerrillas successfully ended talks on the first of six points on the peace talks agenda. At a press conference in the Venezuelan capital Caracas,…
Armed conflict surged forced displacement and confinement in multiple parts of Colombia, according to the United Nations’ humanitarian agency OCHA. In its quarterly report, OCHA said that the number of…
At least two soldiers were killed by alleged EMC guerrillas that intensified attacks on security forces in the southwest of Colombia. The soldiers were killed in a guerrilla attack on…
The “Comuneros del Sur” front that operates in southwest Colombia has broken ties with the ELN to pursue peace with the government of Gustavo Petro. In a video, a guerrilla…
Colombia’s longest-living rebel group ELN said Monday that they will resume kidnappings to sustain their guerrilla organization. In a statement, the rebels said the government failed to create a so-called…