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…
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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…
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Colombia’s now-demobilized FARC guerrillas used several NGOs to help compose the demobilization list that proved to contain unaffiliated criminals in order to allow them to obtain judicial leniency as part of…
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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…
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Pope Francis urged Colombians skeptical of a peace deal with guerrillas to be open to reconciliation with those who have repented, speaking hours after a top rebel leader asked the…
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Colombia’s Marxist inspired FARC has included a former head of a network of assassins as a “peace manager” in the ongoing process with the government, having triggered his release from…
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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…
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 FARC’s former guerrilla leader, “Timochenko,” on Thursday asked Pope Francis for forgiveness for the “tears and pain” inflicted on Colombia by the group during its participation in the armed…
The political party of former guerrilla group FARC has introduced the red rose to Colombia’s politics, abandoning communist for social democratic symbolism. Whether this means the FARC will be promoting…