Colombia’s Ministry of Defense has announced that 1,374 combatants of illegally armed groups have either been killed, captured, or voluntarily demobilized during the first eight months of 2014.
The Colombian government has definitively “closed the door” to the possibility of future demobilized fighters being able to participate in politics. The Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the proposed…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos called on Congress Wednesday to approve draft legislation intended to prevent the return of 25,000 demobilized ex-combatants to illegal armed groups, newspaper El Espectador reported.…
Two demobilized guerrillas from the FARC and ELN have been captured while receiving an extortion payment in Ibague, the capital of the central Colombian department Tolima, El Espectador reported on…
Judicial officials on the Colombian island of San Andres have received threats signed with the name of demobilized paramilitary group the AUC, reports Caracol Radio. The Administrative Court Circuit of…
Ex-guerrillas testify that the government collaborated with a FARC prisoner and a drug trafficker to stage the fake surrender of dozens of FARC members, La FM reported Wednesday. On March 7,…
Some 164 members of leftist guerrilla groups demobilized in January, the government announced Tuesday. According to a report by the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized, 145 of the…
A bill presented to Colombia’s Congress Friday seeks to provide equal treatment for both soldiers and demobilized paramilitaries who are facing trial, reported newspaper El Nuevo Siglo. “It is very…
The Association of Indigenous Councils in North Cauca’s (ACIN) in souteast Colombia has implemented its own re-immersion program for demobilized guerillas, reported newspaper El Tiempo Monday. ACIN tells the story…