Colombia’s coffee farmers on Thursday announced to resume massive strikes that were suspended earlier this year after government concessions to help the iconic sector. According to the farmers, Bogota failed…
The Colombian government and farmers from the northeastern Catatumbo region on Tuesday agreed one the appointment of two mediators to end social unrest that killed four in the past three…
Peasant leaders from the north of Colombia said Tuesday they have called off a planned meeting with the government because Bogota refused to confirm the presence of President Juan Manuel…
Peasant leaders from the north of Colombia have agreed to meet with President Juan Manuel Santos in the capital Bogota after three weeks of protests that left four peasants dead…
Colombia’s federation of cattle ranchers, representing the country’s large land owners, on Friday rejected a recently made agrarian deal with the FARC that according to the agricultural businessmen includes Venezuela-like…
Government officials and farmers from the northeast of Colombia on Thursday failed to reach an agreement to end escalated social unrest that has killed at least four peasants.
Farmer protests in the northeast of Colombia have been just and the government responded too late to the protesters’ griefs, the High Commissioner for Public Dialogue, Luis Eduardo Garzon, said…
Two farmers were killed and at least 11 were injured in clashes with riot police in the northeast of Colombia Tuesday, the day Colombia’s government agreed to talk to the…
Colombia’s national government on Monday said it will not talk to farmers in the northeast of the country until they end roadblocks and hostility towards police. According to local reports,…