Rebels attack Ecopetrol helicopters in northern Colombia
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…
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.
Rebel group FARC admitted on Monday that its longtime practice of kidnapping in Colombia “was an error” that incurred high political costs for the guerrilla group.
Activists in the Catatumbo region have fallen victim to recent death threats and intimidation efforts by a neo-paramilitary group beginning to emerge in the area, according to human rights reports…
Four days away from what is potentially the first display of nationally organized peasant protests in Colombia’s history, the government has yet to make any inroads toward negotiating a substantive…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday said that possible dialogue with peasants from the Catatumbo region must be “without any restrictions.”
A spokesman for peasants in the northeast of the country said that demonstrators will clear a road connecting one of the region’s main towns to the department capital, local media…