Hours after the government concluded the land restitution of some 63,000 acres to Afro-Colombian communities in the Choco department, illegal armed groups raided and burned several acres of crops, Caracol…
Colombia’s interior and justice minister has announced on Twitter that nearly 250,000 acres of land will be returned to Afro-Colombian communities who have been forcibly displaced. German Vargas Lleras used…
The Colombian government will form a new security body with the goal of providing protection to both leaders and beneficiaries in the land restitution process, the Ministry of Defense reported…
President Juan Manuel Santos traveled to the central Meta department to oversee the return of over 42,000 acres of land to local people forced to abandon their homes by violence, Colombian…
Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture pleaded to the Chief of National Police Friday for aid in the wave of violence against land restoration organizations. In a letter addressed to the Chief…
A land restitution plan to return land to over 130,000 families is announced by Colombian Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo, reports Caracol Radio. The government plans to implement a series of…
The Colombian government admits that criminal groups that emerged from demobilized paramilitary organization AUC are threatening labor unionists and citizens helping the government to return land stolen by the AUC.…