FARC kill 4 police in south Colombia
Four policemen were killed in two separate FARC attacks in southern Colombia’s Meta and Caqueta departments, news agency EFE reported Wednesday. In the town of Vistahermosa in the Meta department FARC…
Four policemen were killed in two separate FARC attacks in southern Colombia’s Meta and Caqueta departments, news agency EFE reported Wednesday. In the town of Vistahermosa in the Meta department FARC…
A parcel bomb exploded Wednesday in Vanguardia Airport, in the capital of the southern Colombian Meta department, RCN Radio reports. Meta police commander Marco Tulio Avendaño Lara confirmed that the explosive package…
The former governor of the south-east Colombian Guaviare department admitted having done business with “Cuchillo,” one of the country’s most important drug lords and leader of paramilitary group ERPAC. According…
Colombia’s outgoing armed forces commander General Freddy Padilla called on FARC leader “Alfonso Cano” to surrender and avoid death. Padilla spoke on Wednesday on a visit to the town of…
A general, two colonels and a sergeant from Colombia’s armed forces, who were rescued from FARC captivity in a military operation on Sunday, flew to Bogota on Monday to be…
The Colombian departments of Cordoba, Guaviare, and Cauca saw significant increases in coca cultivation in 2009, although national production dropped 16%, El Tiempo reported Tuesday. According to a forthcoming United…
A major FARC commander, alias “Saavedra,” who led the guerrilla group’s 81st Front, has been killed in a military operation on the bank of the river Itilla, south of the…
The ombudsman for the central Colombian Meta department, Eduardo Gonzalez Pardo, expressed his concern over the growing number of children being recruited to illegally armed groups in the region, reported…
A Colombian air force attack on a FARC camp in the southern department of Guaviare killed at least three members of the guerrilla group and led to the arrest of…