Illegal armed groups from both Colombia and Venezuela have taken advantage of the two countries’ broken relations, according to a newly released study. According to the report of Fundacion Paz…
The ELN violently reaffirmed their control over Colombia’s northeastern Arauca province on Saturday, days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed “the guerrillas were the police’ there. In one of multiple…
Colombia’s government on Thursday could not deny that “the guerrillas are the police” in the northeastern Arauca province as claimed by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Instead, the Defense Ministry sent…
In Colombia’s northeastern Arauca province and the neighboring Apure state in Venezuela, guerrilla groups have effectively taken over the role of the police, according to Human Rights Watch. In a…
Colombia’s army can’t seem to shake a decades-old habit of covering up extrajudicial executions by claiming having guerrillas killed in combat. On Wednesday, a press statement from a farmers’ association…
Rearmed guerrillas of demobilized rebel group FARC on Sunday released a proof of life video of a soldier who has been held hostage since he was kidnapped in northeast Colombia…
A roadside bomb attack in the northeast of Colombia killed at least two and injured at eight soldiers on Sunday, according to the military. The National Army’s 8th Division said…
A Colombian filmmaker was murdered in northeast Colombia while making a documentary about the victims of ongoing armed conflict, local media reported on Thursday. The film Mauricio Lezama was producing,…
A Congressman of President Ivan Duque’s far-right party has been accused of working with a paramilitary death squad in the northeast of the country. Public television network Canal Uno released…