Pamphlets signed by the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, confirmed the paramilitaries’ apparent attempt to consolidate power in former FARC territories throughout the country. While some 7,000 FARC guerrillas are still in rural camps…
The FARC’s dissident 1st Front allegedly attacked a polling station in central Colombia on Sunday, the day the country holds a referendum on a peace deal with the country’s largest rebel…
A bomb that exploded in central Colombia on Wednesday is raising fears that a recently split dissident group from the FARC is carrying out guerrilla attacks. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle…
Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country’s war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has…
A massive air based operation has destroyed more than 100 cocaine laboratories in central Colombia allegedly belonging to the FARC’s dissident 1st Front, authorities said Tuesday. The operation led by the Air Force…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos warned dissident members of the FARC’s 1st Front that they have two options: demobilize, or end up either in prison or six feet underground. The dissident 1st Front is…
The party of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos was embarrassed on Tuesday when the military arrested a coalition congressman’s assistant with $200,000 in cash, alleged drug money, stashed in the congressman’s car.
Police reported on Thursday that it had arrested 37 persons in eastern Colombia. The suspects are linked to killings, extortion and drug trafficking.
Nearly 40 members of the hunter and gatherer Nukak indigenous group have been forcibly displaced in the central southeastern state of Guaviare by armed groups, said the Colombia Ombudsman on…