5 policemen die in ‘FARC’ ambush
Five policemen were killed and three injured by a suspected FARC bomb in the southern Colombian department of Caqueta on Wednesday. “Around 7.30 on Wednesday evening a national police patrol…
Five policemen were killed and three injured by a suspected FARC bomb in the southern Colombian department of Caqueta on Wednesday. “Around 7.30 on Wednesday evening a national police patrol…
Former paramilitaries admit to cremating the bodies of some 150 of their victims in northern Colombia between 2000 and 2004, prosecutors told news agency AP. According to Leonardo Cabana of…
Colombia’s armed forces will continue to combat the country’s largest rebel group FARC “with all force” until the guerrillas cease to use acts of terrorism, President Juan Manuel Santos said…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba forms Latin Americans for Peace in Colombia, a regional group which aims to promote a negotiated solution to the country’s armed conflict. Colombians for Peace, an organization…
The father of Jose Libio Martinez, the FARC’s longest-held hostage, died Monday morning of stomach cancer in a hospital in the south Colombian city of Pasto. Jose Fidencio Martinez died…
The Colombian government says it will have to give out at least COP40 trillion ($22 billion) in the next ten years in reparations to the victims of the country’s violent…
Authorities in southern Colombia have found the bodies of two indigenous leaders who were shot dead by unknown assassins, local media reported Sunday The victims, indigenous councillor Ramiro Inampues and…
A member of the FARC, convicted for a 2002 massacre that killed 119 civilians, was arrested on Friday, authorities say. According to the national government, the guerrilla, Harbey Torres Ayala,…
A total of 146 Colombians and three foreigners were kidnapped in the country in the first half of this year, the government’s anti-kidnapping agency said Wednesday. According to statistics revealed…