Investigators of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office exhumed the remains of 31 victims of guerilla groups in 15 municipalities, judicial sources said Wednesday. In San Luis municipality, prosecutors of the national…
Former guerrillas in Colombia have helped neuroscientists locate which parts of the brain are involved in literacy, according to a study published on Wednesday in the British journal Nature. Language…
The governor of Nariño has reported six massive displacements of people since August 2008. The most recent displacement involved 900 people of African descent, comprising farmers, fishermen and miners who…
A human rights prosecutor ordered the arrested of an officer in the Colombian Armed Forces for his alleged role in the killing of five indigenous Awa Indians. Lieutenant Alberto Williams…
Authorities in Venezuela have captured a man strongly resembling the ELN guerrilla ‘Pablito’ who escaped from a Colombian prison last week, claimed the Commander of Colombia’s Military Forces. The Commander,…
Herbin Hoyos, host of a radio program for hostages held in Colombia’s jungle, said he will continue his radio broadcasts from exile in Europe, despite receiving death threats. Hoyos said…
Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace and Reintegration yesterday called on former AUC paramilitaries to denounce threats made against them by the FARC guerrillas and join the reintegration process. “Drug trafficking,…
Authorities in the east of Colombia reported a guerrilla attack Tuesday morning in Tibu that resulted in the burnings of four buses. Furthermore, the road to neighboring town Petrolera, near…
Martin Villa, one of the original founders of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC has died of a heart attack, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday based on testimonies by demobilized guerrillas.…