Ten FARC guerrillas arrested
Ten guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been captured by the Colombian authorities in an operation near the Venezuelan border, the army said on Tuesday. The…
Ten guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been captured by the Colombian authorities in an operation near the Venezuelan border, the army said on Tuesday. The…
The FARC Tuesday asked Panama to suspend attacks on its guerrillas at the Colombia-Panama border and said its policy was not to fight the armies of neighboring countries. The FARC’s…
The homicide rate in Colombia rose by 16% in 2009 compared to the previous year, national forensics agency Medicina Legal found in its annual report. The forensics agency registered 16,363…
A farmer was killed and four policemen were injured when a bomb exploded close to a passing patrol car on a highway near the southern Colombian town of Samaniego, close…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba said Sunday that soldiers Pablo Emilio Moncayo and Josue Daniel Calvo, held hostage by the FARC, will be released by the end of February. This is…
A former guerrilla, who killed FARC leader “Ivan Rios” before turning himself in to Colombian authorities, asked the Electoral Commission to allow him to register his bid for the Senate.…
The border towns of Ipiales in Colombia and Tulcan in Ecuador signed a statute on Friday designed to create greater integration between the two communities. The new association’s first project…
Police arrested “El Indio,” believed to be the leader of the FARC’s 26th Front, in Bogota on Friday. The guerrilla boss is accused of kidnapping the former governor of Meta,…
The Colombian police force will require officers to submit to polygraph tests in a bid to combat links developing between police and members of emerging criminal groups. The planned measure…