Armed group ‘kidnaps 6’ in southwest Colombia
An unidentified armed group on Monday allegedly kidnapped six individuals, including the father of a local mayor, in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department.
An unidentified armed group on Monday allegedly kidnapped six individuals, including the father of a local mayor, in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, plans to release a Canadian miner the rebels had kidnapped in January, said one of the members who took part in the release…
Though Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, did not release their two German hostages on Thursday as promised, they will on Friday, said government attaché Jaime Bernal Cueller. Bernal…
The release of two German tourists who had been kidnapped by rebel group ELN has been suspended after the guerrillas and hostages failed to arrive at the agreed point of…
The Red Cross is preparing the possible liberation of two German nationals kidnapped in northern Colombia in November of last year. The International Commission of the Red Cross (ICRC) said…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday authorized a humanitarian commission to negotiate the release of two German tourists held hostage in the north of the country since November. “The…
Colombia’s State Council on Thursday ruled that the death of a kidnap victim was reportedly due to a bungled rescue attempt by Colombian security forces, and as a result, the…
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Monday said that the Canadian miner kidnapped by the group in late January will “remain” in captivity. “The Canadian engineer Jernoc Wobert…is…
The Colombian government has agreed to suspend all military activity in an area in the north of Colombia to allow the release of three foreign and two Colombian hostages, held…