Canadian mining company Braeval Mining Corporation has decided to shut down its mining operations in Colombia, citing “unfavorable markets” while having failed to release one of its employees who is…
The US State department said on Monday that they are concerned about the welfare of ex-serviceman Kevin Scott Sutay who is being held hostage by the FARC in southern Colombia.
Colombia’s branch of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday said to have established contact with rebel group FARC to mediate the release of a former US Navy seaman who was…
The United States on Saturday condemned the FARC for kidnapping of a former US Navy seaman in the south of Colombia.
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, are holding a civil engineer hostage who had been kidnapped by ELN rebels in the north of Colombia last year, the army said Monday.…
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Monday announced the arrest of an ELN rebel commander held responsible for orchestrating the kidnapping of a Canadian citizen earlier this year.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has released a soldier they had captured in combat in the northeast of Colombia, the Red Cross said Thursday.
A senior commander of Colombia’s largest rebel group ELN said Wednesday his organization will continue to kidnap foreigners in “defense of national sovereignty and natural resources.”
Almost 40, 000 people have been kidnapped in Colombia over the past four decades, a report published on Thursday said.