Fighting between leftist ELN rebels and neo-paramilitary rivals from the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) forced the displacement of the inhabitants of a village in west Colombia. The mass displacement…
Colombia’s conservative opposition, led by former President Alvaro Uribe, will promote a “No” vote in an upcoming plebiscite to ratify a pending peace deal with the FARC, senators of his…
Colombia’s government appointed two prominent former members of the ELN mediators in an attempt to unlatch peace talks with the country’s second largest rebel group. According to newspaper El Tiempo,…
Four members of Colombia’s second largest far-left guerrilla group the ELN were killed in combat in the southwest of the country, according to the military. The incident occurred in the rural zone…
ELN rebels have allegedly killed six members of Colombia’s security forces and bombed the country’s second largest oil pipeline as announced peace talks seem further away than ever.
ELN, Colombia’s second largest rebel group, asked the Colombian government for a permanent, bilateral ceasefire, but failed to offer concessions in return. Unlike the considerably larger rebel group FARC that…
Snipers have reportedly killed at least eight members of Colombia’s security forces in the virtually lawless northeastern province of Norte de Santander so far this year. The province for decades has been…
Dozens of Colombia’s most prominent and leftist non-government organizations have urged rebel group ELN to release its hostages and formalize peace talks with the government. So far, the ELN has…
Wars over control over the cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, is the biggest threat to benefits of a pending peace deal with the FARC and the…