Colombia inspects Venezuela border security situation
The Minister of Defense and other national officials met near the Venezuelan border Thursday to discuss efforts to combat rebel groups. The Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera traveled to the…
The Minister of Defense and other national officials met near the Venezuelan border Thursday to discuss efforts to combat rebel groups. The Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera traveled to the…
Despite promises from Caracas and Bogota to rein in guerrilla activity along the Venezuelan-Colombian border, several Colombian governors of border departments have expressed their concern that activity from guerrilla groups…
Venezuela has begun the process has of extraditing captured Colombian Nilson Teran Ferreira, alias “Tulio” who was allegedly the second-in-command of the North Front of the ELN. Tulio is to…
Colombia’s government said Tuesday that 2,381 members of Colombian guerrilla groups deserted their ranks in 2010. According to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), 2,009 of these…
Venezuela will extradite a captured commander of guerrilla group ELN “in the coming days,” the website of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reported after a meeting with Venezuelan leader Hugo…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday confirmed the capture of a prominent ELN rebel and said his country will not allow “the incursion of any subversive Colombian” group in his…
Venezuelan authorities arrested a commander of guerrilla group ELN, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. According to Santos, Venezuelan authorities had arrested Nilson Teran Ferreira, alias “Tulio” who in…
At least five soldiers died and two were injured in a minefield on the border of the southern Huila and Caqueta departments. According to Caracol Radio, the soldiers were on…
Colombia’s National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission announces that 15.5% of 55,000 former members of illegal armed groups have rearmed. This means that more than 8,500 former paramilitaries and guerrillas have…