ELN releases remaining two journalists held hostage in north Colombia
The ELN released two kidnapped television reporters Friday, the day that a Spanish journalist clarified she had also been kidnapped exactly a week ago on Saturday.
The ELN released two kidnapped television reporters Friday, the day that a Spanish journalist clarified she had also been kidnapped exactly a week ago on Saturday.
The disappearance of three journalists in the northeastern Catatumbo shows how Colombia’s central government has no control over areas away from the cities and economically important regions.
Two more journalists have gone missing in a lawless region in Colombia where security forces are already carrying out a massive search for a prominent Spanish journalist, President Juan Manuel…
Colombia’s government announced on Thursday that it is going to combat drug traffickers and increase the eradication of coca cultivation in the northwestern border region of Catatumbo.
Farmers in the north of Colombia are threatening protests after reports that the government is considering the resumption of chemical aerial fumigation of coca, just months after a ban of the potentially carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate.
Presumed guerrillas have opened fire at two civilian helicopters that were flying repairmen to the site where leftist rebels had damaged an oil pipeline in the north of Colombia, state-run…
Hundreds of farmers held a peaceful demonstration outside the ombudsman’s office in Bogota Thursday to protest the government’s inaction on enforcing rural workers’ rights legislation passed in 2014.
A military campaign in northeastern Colombia led to the closure of nine hidden factories used for the production of cocaine paste which government troops claim were run by ELN and…
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said Monday that one of it’s contractors has been kidnapped in a rebel hotspot the northeast of the country.