Seventy-seven victims of the 2002 Bojaya massacre in northwest Colombia were buried on Monday as their loved ones urged President Ivan Duque to implement the peace deal with their victimizers,…
A former local election candidate of the FARC, the political party former by demobilized rebels, was assassinated in southwest Colombia on Sunday. The FARC said that Diego Fernando Campo was…
The FARC on Monday announced its party’s first electoral victories since the former guerrillas laid down their weapons in 2017. The demobilized rebels already took part in the 2018 congressional…
For the first time since Colombia’s FARC guerrillas demobilized and became a political party in 2017, one of its members was elected mayor on Sunday. The election of Guillermo Torres,…
Colombia’s authorities are under extraordinary pressure to investigate who murdered the FARC member who was at the heart of the former guerrillas’ reintegration program. Alexander Parra, who was assassinated in…
The FARC’s transition from Colombia’s largest rebel group to political party is met with violent resistance and little enthusiasm, but its candidates seem determined. For the first time since laying…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque vowed to reinforce security around sites where former FARC rebels are reintegrating after a death squad assassinated a demobilized guerrilla. According to the FARC, Alexander Parra…
Colombia’s government may issue a decree ordering the FARC to surrender assets the former guerrillas reported two years ago already, newspaper El Espectador reported on Monday. FARC leader “Pastor Alape”…
The offices of leftist parties were attacked in Bogota on Friday, two weeks before Colombia’s local elections. The office of the FARC, the political party of demobilized guerrillas, and the…