Colombia’s western Choco province will engage in an all-out civic strike again on Wednesday following the failure of the national government to fulfill promises made to alleviate rampant state neglect,…
Eight people who had been kidnapped in west Colombia on Sunday were released by their captors late Monday, according to authorities. According to newspaper El Colombiano, the mayor of the jungle…
Eight more people were allegedly kidnapped in western Colombia on Sunday amid ongoing warfare between Marxist ELN guerrillas and paramilitary group AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” according to authorities. The mayor…
Colombia’s constitutional court demanded on Tuesday that the government take immediate measures to save the country’s main river in the west from being destroyed by illegal armed groups’ gold mining…
Survivors of the Bojaya massacre on Monday and Tuesday commemorated the 15th anniversary of the single most deadly guerrilla attack on civilians in Colombia’s 53-year armed conflict. The mass killing…
Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group ELN on Monday accused the National Army of actively supporting paramilitary group AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” that has been combating the guerrillas in the west of…
A Russian citizen is lost in Colombia’s western jungles, allegedly after he escaped from ELN guerrillas who had kidnapped him six months earlier, the rebel group said Sunday. According to…
Colombia’s new vice-president, General Oscar Naranjo, said Thursday that he would travel to the western Choco province to learn more about the ongoing turf war between guerrillas and paramilitaries. Naranjo…
At least eight people were kidnapped in one week in western Colombia amid ongoing warfare between Marxist ELN guerrillas and paramilitary group AGC, the local ombudsman said Monday. In an…