Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the Colombian defense ministry to organize the armed forces’ retreat from indigenous territory in the southeastern departments of Meta and Guaviare, local media reported Thursday.…
Ex-senator Piedad Cordoba said she will face any legal consequences should a court decide to press charges for her call to overthrow the government. “The only thing I can say…
An indigenous group from the southwest of Colombia said Tuesday they may sue the Colombian government for using violence when retaking a military base in mid-July. The army used tear…
Colombia’s inspector general may prosecute ex-senator Piedad Cordoba who called for the government’s overthrow, local media reported Monday. In a speech to the Nasa tribe, the group disputing the military’s presence…
Indigenous leaders in the southwest in Colombia on Friday suspended reconciliation talks with the government after the country’s ministers of interior and defense failed to attend the scheduled meeting. “We…
The FARC’s supreme leader said Wednesday the guerrilla organization will leave the violence-plagued Cauca department once government security foces and neo-paramilitary groups abandon the area. “When the military, the police…
President Juan Manuel Santos announced the arrival of 28,000 troops Tuesday in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, where a recent surge in violence has forced thousands from their homes. The new…
Colombia’s government and indigenous representatives began talks Monday about escalated tensions in the southwest of the country that followed ongoing fighting between left-wing guerrilla group FARC and government forces. The…
Colombia’s Air Force (FAC) said it received the black box from a military aircraft that crashed July 11 in suspected FARC territory in the country’s southwest. The black box was…