Colombian authorities on Saturday announced the seizure of almost $2 million worth of assets belonging to FARC leader, alias “Mono Jojoy,” thus dismantling the financial network of the guerrilla kingpin, reported…
The local Ombudsman for Colombia’s Meta department said Thursday that the national government is not doing anything to protect sixteen spokesmen for displaced communities, following a rise in death threats…
The Colombian police have seized over 200 assets belonging to members of guerrilla group the FARC, including houses, vehicles and farms, registered under the names of “front men,” reports Colombian…
Guerrilla group the FARC set fire to a helicopter belonging to the Argentine multinational oil company Pluspetrol in south-eastern Colombia on Monday, military sources reported. The Colombian air force said…
Colombia’s Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CPDH) on Thursday announced the assassination of human rights defender and community leader Jhonny Hurtado in the central department of Meta,…
Beauty pageants were the last thing on 18-year-old Bleidy Bucuru Leon’s mind, growing up amidst some of the worst violence of Colombia’s armed conflict, but she has risen from her…
The council of Villavicencio, in the central Colombian department of Meta, approved a law that will oblige school children to attend one week of Bible study per year, reported El…
Within the last two months up to 300 members of Colombian guerrilla group FARC have either been killed, displaced of captured, according to an official report obtained by radio station Caracol. These…
A joint humanitarian mission by the Colombian and U.S. military in the south of Colombia has been able to provide treatment to over 3,300 people in its first week, a…