Colombian authorities discovered notebooks containing FARC leader “El Paisa’s” plans for terrorist attacks on politicians, following the air force bombardment of a guerrilla camp located deep in the jungle in…
Ex-army general Mario Montoya Uribe has been implicated in the massacre of eight people in the Peace Community of San Apartado, reported El Tiempo on Thursday. Whilst on trial for…
Colombia was the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists in 2009, with 40 assassinated over the year, it was revealed at the Second National Meeting on Anti-Trade…
Former congressman Dixon Ferney Tapasco was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail after being found guilty of having links to a paramilitary group in the central Colombian department…
12 guerrillas believed to be from the Teofilo Forero front of the FARC were killed during an military operation in the southern department of Caqueta, Colombian authorities reported Wednesday. According…
Thirty people, including children, were rescued from Pacific waters near Cauca on Monday after being forced to jump overboard by pirates who hijacked their boat, Caracol Radio reports. The boat,…
The Colombian Defense Ministry announced Monday evening that it will compensate two indigenous Colombians injured by the air force during the bombing of a FARC camp. Four indigenous Colombians were reported…
Three soldiers and four policemen died in north-eastern Colombia on Saturday when they were ambushed by alleged FARC guerrillas. According to media reports, the soldiers and policemen were attacked with…
Colombia’s state forces have 2.2 million “cooperating civilians” including some 3,000 paid informants, Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Wednesday. The Minister made his statement after a plan by President Alvaro…