The escape of the FARC’s 27th Front commander is spurring concerns about desertion of demobilized commanders and combatants. How worried should Colombia be? The country’s peace process partly depends on…
The former commander of the FARC’s demobilized 27th front escaped his guards with the help of armed men in southern Colombia, local media reported Sunday. Former 27th Front commander Edgar…
The Colombian government has denied the integration of some 2,800 common criminals in a peace process with the now-demobilized FARC guerrilla group, the peace commissioner said. According to figures given…
For the second time since the United Nations began removing weapons caches belonging to the FARC, officials were attacked, this time by EPL dissidents in the northeast of Colombia. The…
Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrilla group on Thursday claimed the prosecutor general intentionally omitted reported the content of a list of assets the rebels surrendered for victim compensation. Prosecutor General Nestor…
Colombia’s prosecutor general has urged the national government to force demobilized guerrilla group FARC to be more specific about assets belonging to the former guerrilla group and meant for victim…
The United Nations reported it had removed more than 8,000 arms and 22,000 kilograms of explosives on the final day of disarmament of Colombia’s demobilized rebel group FARC. “Today we…
The UN’s first mission as peace observers in Colombia comes to an end on Tuesday with the removal of containers full of arms from FARC demobilization camps. Next challenge: reintegrating…
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday voted in favor of creating a maximum of 1200 new bodyguard positions for demobilized FARC rebels, reopening a decades-old debate. The National Protection Unit’s (UNP) proposal…