Guerrillas use minor to blow up school
A young boy, recruited by guerillas, detonated explosives next to a school in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca on Thursday. The boy placed explosives next to the only school…
A young boy, recruited by guerillas, detonated explosives next to a school in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca on Thursday. The boy placed explosives next to the only school…
A Colombian prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of former Liberal congressman Alfonso Lopez Cossio for alleged ties to paramilitary groups. The case investigator substituted house arrest for a prison…
Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba on Tuesday announced that two hostages being held by FARC guerrillas will be released in approximately one month. “I think that with the will of the…
Authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspected guerrilla who they believe to have been a key figure in the kidnap and murder of the governor of Caqueta. The…
The FARC must be stopped so that Colombia can live peacefully, declared President Uribe in a radio interview on Wednesday. When questioned with regard to the FARC’s recent statement in…
Colombia’s defense minister on Wednesday condemned the FARC’s justification for the kidnap and murder of Caqueta governor Luis Francisco Cuellar, calling the rebels’ explanation “cynical.” In a statement released on…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC accepted responsibility for the recent kidnapping and murder of Caqueta governor Luis Francisco Cuellar. According to a press release on the website of press agency…
More than 2,600 fighters deserted illegal armed groups in 2009, Colombian authorities announced on Monday. Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, suffered the most desertions, the Defense Ministry’s Program for…
Hit men on Saturday killed a councilor from the south eastern Colombian town of Trujillo while he attended a family event. Colonel Nelson Aceros, police commander for the department of…