ELN prepares ceasefire, but not with AGC in west Colombia
Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
Colombia’s western Choco province is unlikely to benefit from a ceasefire between the ELN guerrilla group and the military as the latter has barely intervened in ongoing violence with the…
Colombia’s last-standing rebel group, the ELN, has told news agency Reuters it killed a Russian hostage in April when he tried to escape. The Armenia-born captive, Arsen Voskanyan, had been kidnapped…
More than 3,000 people in the Choco province in western Colombia have been affected by several days of heavy rain as the Red Cross works to alleviate the situation. The…
Colombia Ombudsman on Wednesday claimed that the country is unable to endure any more violence and made an appeal to the ELN to stop kidnapping and killing civilians. According to…
A pioneering ecotourism entrepreneur has been assassinated by an illegal armed group in west Colombia, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The body of Antioquia native Javier Montoya, who had been…
Police in the northwest of Colombia have issued a red alert amid fears that the AGC may avenge the killing on a ringleader of the country’s largest illegal armed group,…
During the month of May, the Pacific Coast of Colombia was engulfed by non-violent civic strikes. In response to long-standing government neglect, poor living conditions, and insecurity, residents of the Choco Department…
While Colombia’s western province of Choco agreed to end 11 days of anti-government protests, violence in the neighboring Buenaventura is escalating. Both Choco and Buenaventura, Colombia’s largest port city, have embarked…
Colombia partly shut down on Tuesday with teachers, state employees and virtually the entire western Choco province on strike. Citizens in the Pacific Choco province have engaged in an all-out civic strike since…