Ecuador’s government has issued refugee visas to over 16,000 displaced Colombians in provinces bordering Colombia, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement Thursday. A survey, launched in March, is currently…
Colombian opposition senator Piedad Cordoba is the most likely to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, based on the bets made on the election at UK oddsmaker Ladbrokes. The Senator,…
Colombia’s national indigenous organization ONIC sent an open letter to the FARC requesting talks about the indigenous’ request to respect their territories and peoples. In the letter, the ONIC asks…
Colombia’s Armed Forces confirmed the death of eight FARC guerrillas in a bombing of a FARC camp on Thursday. Media earlier reported 30 to 40 fatalities. One of the killed…
Colombia’s Armed Forces Thursday killed more than 30 FARC rebels, including a commander close to the rebels’ supreme leader, Alfonso Cano, local media reported. Even though the army confirmed the…
Colombian authorities say a gunman on horseback killed a town councilman and wounded an 11-year-old boy in the country’s southeast. The president of the national councilman’s federation, Fabior Estrada, says…
Eleven highly-ranked FARC members Tuesday were sentenced in absentia to 57 years and 11 months in prison for their part in the 2005 bombing of a rural hotel. A Villavicencio…
Demobilized members of illegal armed groups are rearming more than the Colombian government previously admitted. More than 2,000 of them were murdered, despite their official exit from the violent conflict,…
A police operation in the northwestern Colombian municipality of Corinto (Cauca) resulted in the arrest of a suspected leader of the FARC. According to authorities, Edwin Elias Secue Viscue, alias…