Former FARC members massively abandoning demobilization zones
Contrary to original plans for the guerrillas to build new lives in their demobilization zones, former members of the FARC are abandoning their government camps at a high rate, according…
Contrary to original plans for the guerrillas to build new lives in their demobilization zones, former members of the FARC are abandoning their government camps at a high rate, according…
Colombia’s state has failed to comply with a peace deal signed with FARC guerrillas in November last year, the United Nations said in its harshest condemnation yet. While more than…
The United Nations on Tuesday will begin its second post-conflict mission in Colombia, this time verifying the effective reincorporation of former FARC fighters. The reincorporation of the demobilized and disarmed…
A key mediator in successful peace talks with Colombia’s FARC guerrillas said the state is failing to comply with the peace agreement that seeks to end more than half a…
The Colombian government removed 251 people from a list of 14,178 FARC members on claims they were never part of the demobilized guerrilla group. According to the Peace Commissioner, in…
Amid ongoing uncertainty about projects that would help demobilized FARC guerrillas reintegrate in society, many have left the camps either to return to their families or to join other illegal…
The United Nations reported Friday that it had destroyed all surrendered weapons of Colombia’s demobilized FARC rebels and that more than 1,100 weapons caches had been retrieved. According to the…
When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their demobilization benefited numerous unaffiliated drug traffickers. Demobilized former FARC guerrillas are now helping to prevent a repetition in their…
The United Nations in Colombia said the international organization has retrieved 750 weapons caches from demobilized FARC guerrillas, leaving almost 250 to the security forces. Until the end of its…