Forced displacement numbers may be higher than expected
Accion Social reported on Friday that forced displacement had dropped by 48 percent in Colombia in 2010, but an NGO says that actual numbers may vary, reported CM& on Tuesday.…
Accion Social reported on Friday that forced displacement had dropped by 48 percent in Colombia in 2010, but an NGO says that actual numbers may vary, reported CM& on Tuesday.…
Colombia’s constitutional court demands authorities to do whatever possible to prevent the extinction of the Hitnu indigenous community that is plagued by violence, hunger and diseases. According to the court,…
Venezuela will extradite a captured commander of guerrilla group ELN “in the coming days,” the website of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reported after a meeting with Venezuelan leader Hugo…
The Colombian army said Friday that in 2010 it had killed 483 guerrillas, arrested 5,045 members of illegal armed groups, while 1,690 members of these groups voluntarily demobilized. In the…
Forced displacement because of violence dropped 48 percent in 2010 compared to the year before, says Accion Social, the government agency responsible aiding displaced. According to the government agency, 86,309…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday confirmed the capture of a prominent ELN rebel and said his country will not allow “the incursion of any subversive Colombian” group in his…
Colombia received more than $620 million in foreign aid in 2010, the country’s government aid agency announced Monday. Colombia’s main sponsors United States European Union Germany Inter-American Development Bank Spain…
The computers found in the camp of “Mono Jojoy,” the FARC’s military commander who was killed in an air strike in September, reveal so much of the guerrilla organization they…
Seven soldiers were killed in the departments of Antioquia and Caqueta on Tuesday. According to RCN Radio, four soldiers were killed in a minefield 80 miles north of the city…