With significantly less powers than previously agreed with Colombia, the United Nations has begun the verification of a renewed ceasefire between the government and FARC guerrillas awaiting their demobilization and disarmament.…
Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels have reduced the number of concentration camps for demobilizing guerrillas after visits to the sites. The government and the guerrillas made the announcement from Yari, Caqueta,…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, will surrender some 20,000 weapons to the United Nations in the six months after signing a deal to end 52 years of armed conflict…
President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday he expects the international community to donate $3.3 billion to Colombia’s peace process. In an attempt to discard rumors that a pending tax reform is…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos warned dissident members of the FARC’s 1st Front that they have two options: demobilize, or end up either in prison or six feet underground. The dissident 1st Front is…
Colombia’s government has released the locations of the demobilization zones and “normalization camps” for leftist FARC guerrillas who last week vowed to demobilize and disarm.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos is studying the possibility to employ former FARC rebels as park rangers among a wide range of provisions to reintegrate demobilized guerrillas after a half century long conflict. Juan…
In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands of its demobilized members were assassinated. FARC rebels, currently negotiating peace with the government, could await the same fate.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos demanding on Monday that extreme-left FARC guerrillas set a date for the disarming of their troops as the warring parties struggle through the final phase…