Protesters have blocked the highway that connects much of Colombia with Ecuador in the latest escalation of anti-government protests on Wednesday. Indigenous protesters blocked the Pan-American highway in Caldono, a…
Three people were killed and another 10 injured on Friday in an explosives attack near a police station in southwest Colombia. The attack took place in Santander de Quilichao, a…
A former local election candidate of the FARC, the political party former by demobilized rebels, was assassinated in southwest Colombia on Sunday. The FARC said that Diego Fernando Campo was…
Colombia’s Congress said Wednesday that it will convene in the violence-ridden southwest of Colombia next week after social organizations suspended talks with the government. Both the Senate and the House…
Colombia’s national indigenous organization ONIC on Tuesday urged the Government to immediately kick off a program to replace coca and marijuana for legal crops to end escalating violence in the…
President Ivan Duque announced development programs for southwest Colombia on Monday after widespread rejection of his initially militaristic response to a wave of deadly violence. Duque traveled to the troubled…
Church leaders traveled to an indigenous reserve in southwest Colombia on Monday to express their support for native Colombians and their authorities who have suffered extreme violence. Led by the…
President Ivan Duque traveled to southwest Colombia on Monday for his second security council in a week over the ongoing mass killing of native Colombians, who were not invited. Duque…
Indigenous communities in southwest Colombia are in panic after the killing of yet another community member and two assassination attempts on indigenous guards. Regional indigenous authorities reported on Sunday that…