ELN proposes exchange of Canadian captive for mining rights
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Wednesday demanded mining rights for the rural poor in exchange for the Canadian mining executive currently being held hostage.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Wednesday demanded mining rights for the rural poor in exchange for the Canadian mining executive currently being held hostage.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group ELN increased attacks against military targets and the oil sector in March. The upsurge in violence comes amid doubts about the guerrillas’ possible participation in…
Colombia’s two largest rebel groups Sunday announced closer collaboration in northeastern Colombia to “confront the big oligopolies, transnational capital and imperialism.” “The political moment which the [northeastern] department of Arauca…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, could grow from 2,500 to 6,000 armed members if not allowed to participate in the ongoing FARC-government peace talks, said conflict-monitoring NGO Indepaz…
Illegal armed groups that emerged from the paramilitary AUC and the now-defunct Norte del Valle cartel have increased their presence in Colombian municipalities by 12%, according to a report by…
Emerging criminal gangs have consolidated their power and have a “capacity to act” in 360 Colombian municipalities, a report by NGO Indepaz released Thursday showed. These neo-paramilitary groups are composed…
According to a report published Friday by Colombian NGO the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), at least 6,000 narco-paramilitaries were active in Colombia in the first half of…