Paramilitary victims’ compensation overturned
Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of victims who suffered at the hands of an AUC front will have their pending compensation benefits suspended. Victims of the AUC’s Jose…
Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of victims who suffered at the hands of an AUC front will have their pending compensation benefits suspended. Victims of the AUC’s Jose…
Colombian leftist group the FARC denied that they released a statement Friday in support of a constitutional reform known as the Legal Framework for Peace that would give legal benefits…
The Senate held the penultimate debate on a proposed constitutional reform that would see legal benefits given to demobilized armed actors in Colombia’s ongoing conflict. The proposed bill, entitled the…
Former minister Fernando Londoño, who was the target of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Bogota, blamed Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, for the bombing that killed two members of his entourage…
Seven alleged FARC soldiers turned themselves over, along with 1.2 tons of explosives to Colombian military forces in the southwestern department of Putomayo Monday. Seven members of FARC’s squad 48…
Extradited paramilitary leaders ask to resume an open dialogue with Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and call for the government to continue the peace and reconciliation process with victims of the…
Luis Carlos Restrepo, the peace commissioner who oversaw the demobilization of the AUC, was called to explain why he took part in fake acts of demobilization of paramilitary and guerrilla…
The 2006 demobilization of 70 guerrillas of the FARC’s Cacica La Gaitana front was fake, FARC deserter “Rojas” said Monday. The demobilization of the guerrillas, who handed over 60 weapons…