Christian Salazar, the representative for the Colombian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), urged illegal armed groups to respect human rights and said that recent attacks…
A total of 633 Colombian police have been killed by guerrilla attacks in the past seven years, according to a police report released Monday. The report details the incidents that resulted…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday he would “redouble” the military’s offensive against leftist guerrillas after attack killed 40 police and military officers. Colombia’s rebel groups have launched a…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says the FARC attack which has killed at least six policemen in the Putumayo department will only strengthen his determination to beat the rebels. “If…
According to a report published Friday by Colombian NGO the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), at least 6,000 narco-paramilitaries were active in Colombia in the first half of…
Fighting continues between the Colombian army and FARC guerrillas in Colombia’s southern Putumayo department. According to the latest police report, six policemen and two guerrillas have been killed in combat,…
Guerrillas have killed eight policemen and are occupying a police station in the southern Colombian department of Putumayo, close to the Ecuadorean border. Putumayo police commander General Orlando de Jesus…
Colombian intelligence agency DAS knew of FARC plans to bomb radio station Caracol’s Bogota office in 2008, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday. A car bomb exploded in front of the…
The Colombian government Tuesday presented a bill, coined the Land Restitution Law, before Congress that seeks to return land to farmers displaced by the Andean nation’s internal conflict. Colombian Minister…