2.4 million Colombians displaced under Uribe presidency
Of the 4.9 million Colombians that have been forcefully displaced in the last 25 years, 2.4 million were displaced under the presidency of Alvaro Uribe and his “Democratic Security” policy,…
Of the 4.9 million Colombians that have been forcefully displaced in the last 25 years, 2.4 million were displaced under the presidency of Alvaro Uribe and his “Democratic Security” policy,…
Police in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta on Monday arrested a prominent ringleader of the EPL, Colombia’s third largest leftist guerrilla movement. Guerrilla leader Jesus Villalba Torres, alias “Carmelo,”…
Leaders of Colombia’s two largest guerrilla groups, FARC and ELN, met three times on Venezuelan soil to agree the recently announced non-agression pact and improve cooperation between the groups’ armies,…
Ecuadorean armed forces found eight new FARC camps on their side of the border with Colombia, an Ecuadorean general told newspaper El Comercio. General Hugo Villegas, commander of Amazon Operations…
The Colombian army claimed on Wednesday to have killed nine FARC guerrillas in the southern Colombian Putumayo department. Four injured guerrillas were arrested. Among those arrested are one woman and…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has asked the mayors of the country’s three biggest cities, Bogota, Medellin and Cali, to testify on the state of care for people displaced by the country’s…
The Colombian military says it killed rebel leader Guillermo Dimate in a rural area south of Bogota on Tuesday. Dimate, who led FARC’s 51st Front, was killed in combat in…
Victims of Colombian guerrilla violence made a statement Monday rejecting a recent video which portrays the FARC as farmers who finance their rebellion against the state through agriculture. According to…
FARC guerrillas in southern Colombia have the order to recover “at all cost” six strategically important routes from state troops, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday after seeing e-mails found on…