Transport companies halted operations between Medellin and the western Colombian state of Choco for Tuesday after the country’s second largest leftist rebel group, the ELN, had ordered a shutdown of…
When General Ruben Dario Alzate stepped off a boat on the Atrato River into the hands of FARC rebels, he managed to bring the country’s attention to one of Colombia’s…
Colombia’s second largest rebel force, the ELN, announced to enforce a 24-hour transportation shutdown in the western department of Choco for Tuesday.
President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that humanitarian operations to release a general and four others who were recently captured are “underway.”
Economic development operations carried out by the Colombian military put communities in great risk for their lives, according to both local authorities and Washington think tank WOLA.
Colombia Army General Ruben Dario Alzate was captured by FARC guerrillas on Sunday, after walking straight into a FARC stronghold ignoring all security protocols.
A suspension of Colombia’s peace talks is close to coming to an end as foreign guarantors of the talks announced Wednesday that the FARC will release a captured army general and…
Colombia’s natural parks are among the best preserved in the world, according to a world’s oldest and biggest environmental organization.
A Colombian general whose alleged capture by FARC guerrillas forced President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks wasn’t violently kidnapped, but left for the jungle with unarmed men and without…