Colombia’s 100,000 coca farming families are under constant threat from drug trafficking groups trying to violently counter the substitution of the plant that is the base ingredient of cocaine. Authorities…
Colombia is combating coca cultivation, the lowest echelon of the cocaine trade, in Guaviare, a province with a history dominated by drug trafficking. The Guaviare province is located in the…
Tensions between coca farmers and authorities, and the presence of multiple illegal armed groups, put civilians in central Colombia at imminent danger of violence, a local mayor warned. One policeman…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the military has killed one of the five FARC guerrilla commanders who refused to disarm with their now-demobilized group. Santos made the announcement…
Authorities arrested the alleged central Colombia commander of drug trafficking paramilitary group AGC who has admitted to being involved in anti-leftist political violence since the 1980s. Edilson Cifuentes, a.k.a. Richard,…
For the first time since a ceasefire was signed between the FARC and Colombia’s State last year, alleged dissidents of the country’s oldest guerrilla group attacked a village in southern…
The United Nations on Friday called on the kidnappers of a UN worker to release proof the victim is alive, and to establish contact in order to facilitate his release.…
An army captain was injured after he and at least one subordinate had “accidentally” entered a FARC demobilization camp in southern Colombia, the Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday. The incident in the…
The United Nations on Thursday demanded the immediate release of one of its employees who was kidnapped by alleged dissident FARC guerrillas in south Colombia. The employee of the UN’s anti-crime…