A Colombian peace advocacy group on Monday said that within two days they will receive coordinates that will allow them to locate the three kidnapped members of the country’s security forces taken by the country’s...
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC is considering a Christmas truce with the government, according to a prominent leftist activist. “The FARC Secretariat is willing to study and take a decision in that direction,”...
Colombia ex-senator Piedad Cordoba was dubbed Latin America’s most influential intellectual by Foreign Policy magazine Monday. Readers of Foreign Policy’s Spanish edition chose the outspoken Colombian activist ahead of former...
“Timochenko,” the leader of rebel group FARC on Saturday expressed skepticism about the success of Colombia’s peace talks. In an open letter to Colombians for Peace, a peace advocacy group headed by former...
The prominent peace organization “Colombians for Peace” urged the Colombian government and their guerrilla adversaries on Tuesday to implement a bilateral ceasefire amid the ongoing peace process. A ceasefire must be part of the...
Colombian authorities on Friday arrested four alleged members of the FARC, one of whom a family member of former Senator Piedad Cordoba. According to National Police director General Jose Roberto Leon, the suspects were arrested...
Former senator and government mediator Piedad Cordoba requested an interview Monday with the incoming secretary general of the Union of South American Nations, (UNASUR) Venezuela’s Ali Rodriguez. In a letter to Rodriguez,...
Colombians for Peace has demanded the FARC confirm allegations that they are holding French journalist Romeo Langlois hostage. The peace group joined Colombian and French governments calls for Langlois’ release, after the...
All ten of the FARC-held hostages will be released in the first recovery operation, Gloria Cuartas, spokesperson for hostage mediators Colombians for Peace, told local media Monday. Hostages profiles Luis Arturo Arcia Luis...
The Colombian government has forbidden the presence of outsiders during a FARC hostage handover next week, reported local media Wednesday. Colombians For Peace, an NGO that negotiates with the guerrillas and is participating in...
Colombia will not authorize the use of outside mediators for the planned release of ten FARC hostages next week, the Ministry of Defense said Monday. Local media reported Monday that Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta...
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC demanded Saturday the Colombian government allows hostage negotiator Piedad Cordoba a visit to imprisoned FARC guerrillas before the rebels release ten hostages they promised to set...
