Alleged FARC attacks on Colombia’s electricity infrastructure left five dead and six injured Thursday. Explosives placed around electricity towers killed five people and injured six while toppling three pylons in…
President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday asked indigenous groups in the southwest of Colombia for forgiveness over the suffering, deaths and human rights violations caused by the ongoing armed conflict,…
Colombian police have stolen private information of 31 million Colombians, said electoral authorities Tuesday National Registry director Anthony Cotrino Sossa lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office that “high…
Colombia’s defense ministry on Monday announced the creation of an anti-terrorism center in response to an increasing amount of rebel attacks in the southwest of the country. In the past…
Indigenous leaders from the southwest of Colombia suspended talks with the government about ongoing violence on their territories Sunday, demanding the presence of president Juan Manuel Santos. The leaders representing…
An alleged FARC attack destroyed power stations in the Southwestern departments Valle de Cauca and Cauca leaving 30,000 people without electricity, reported local media Friday. Two car bombs detonated at…
The UN representative for indigenous rights, James Anaya, encouraged the Colombian government Thursday to advance in dialogues with an indigenous movement in the southwestern Cauca department that has been calling for the…
The Colombian government will resume talks with indigenous groups protesting in the southwestern part of the country, local media reported Wednesday. At the end of a nearly five-hour meeting, the…
Colombia’s interior minister, Federico Renjifo, will meet with indigenous leaders on Wednesday to seek an end the conflict between the government and the indigenous in the country’s southwestern Cauca department,…
