Colombia only Invests 1% into conserving its biodiversity: new documentary
According to a new documentary only 1% of national budget of Colombia is spent on sustaining the environment.
According to a new documentary only 1% of national budget of Colombia is spent on sustaining the environment.
A soldier captured by Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, was released to his indigenous people on Thursday, local media reported.
Colombia’s 13% increase in military costs last year was one of the largest increases in the Americas, reported the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday.
Colombia’s defense ministry has acknowledged army misconduct in illegal “forced” recruitment of citizens exempt from military service, reported El Espectador newspaper.
Three ex-soldiers have lost an appeal in northern Colombia and face 40 years prison over the deaths of three youths whom they allegedly lured from their home town with offers…
The Colombian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday praised national security forces for the offensive in southeast Colombia that killed six members of the FARC, the oldest rebel group in Colombia.
Two soldiers were killed and two civilians injured in an attack by the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, earlier on Thursday in southeastern Colombia.
Colombia’s army and police were “crucial” for the growth of paramilitary forces in northern Colombia in the 1990s, the Prosecutor’s General’s Office told investigative website Verdad Abierta.
Rebel group FARC announced on Wednesday that they are investigating whether guerrillas are responsible for the recent killing of two policemen in the southwest of the country and the kidnapping…