The FARC denied claims by Ecuador military commander that the guerrilla group has purchased large amounts of arms during the cease-fire. The guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda rejected General Fernando Proaño’s statements…
Colombia’s Armed Forces has found three caches of weapons, explosives and supplies believed to belong to the FARC. According to the military’s website, the first haul was discovered in Puerto…
Colombian weapons manufacturer Indumil reported a 130% increase in exports in 2011, in a press release Wednesday. The company reported $3.7 million in weapons sales to foreign clients in 2011,…
A clandestine weapons factory in the municipality of Soacha, 10 miles west of the capital Bogota was raided and dismantled by the Colombian military, according to a military communique published…
Colombian actress Sofia Vergara denies rumors that the Pepsi company minimized her curves in a new series of ads for Pepsi Lite, according to an article Thursday in the Boston…
Bogota police Thursday afternoon resorted to using force to end the armed occupation of the headquarters of Accion Social, Colombia’s presidential aid agency, by displaced protesters who were demanding promised aid…
Colombian police discovered that youths in the central city of Bucaramanga were using social networking website Facebook to declare a brutal gang war, reported news site Vanguargia on Tuesday. Through…
Two Colombians have pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping U.S. citizen Robert Paul Simmons in in the western city of Cali last February, reported Colombian media on Wednesday. Paula Andrea…
A major FARC commander, alias “Saavedra,” who led the guerrilla group’s 81st Front, has been killed in a military operation on the bank of the river Itilla, south of the…