The Colombian army has rescued an oil worker kidnapped by ELN guerrillas in the country’s northeastern Arauca department, newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday. Troops from the army’s 18th Brigade found…
Guerrilla groups FARC and ELN have committed serious violations of international human rights law, observed Colombia’s UN office on Human Rights. The Colombia Office of the UN High Commission for…
The Colombian government has presented a policy document of strategies to bring an end to the presence of the FARC and neo-paramilitary criminal gangs throughout the country. “The Comprehensive Policy on…
A Bucaramanga Administrative Court has ordered the Colombian state to pay compensation to the victims of a 1999 plane hijacking carried out by the ELN, Caracol Radio reported Friday. Aerocivil,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tweeted compliments to his predecessor Alvaro Uribe, after the newest exchange of snide remarks between the two heads of state, regarding classification of the country’s…
The minister of interior and justice called for more manpower to fight FARC and ELN cocaine trafficking operations in Norte de Santander near the Venezuelan border, the minister’s website reported…
Three people have been kidnapped in Nariño, southern Colombia, with the ELN suspected to be the culprits, RCN Radio reported Wednesday. An engineer and a social manager of the Solarte…
Authorities have captured a guerrilla believed responsible for the 1999 hijacking of a commercial airplane. The current political head of the ELN‘s “Dario Ramirez Castro” front, Hernando Jose Molina Cartagena,…
The ELN have attacked the municipality of Sucre, in southern Cauca, in a siege lasting a whole day that left one civilian injured and destroyed ten houses as well as…