President Juan Manuel Santos petitioned Colombia’s military, Wednesday, to support the police in the fight agains criminal gangs. Santos made this announcement in light of the alleged cooperation of criminal…
A Colombian soldier is suspected of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl on October 2, in the Arauca department, close to the site where three children were killed earlier this month,…
Demobilized members of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC admitted to kidnapping a civilian, who was later killed by soldiers and reported as a guerrilla killed in combat. According to “Voces del…
Eight Colombian soldiers are accused of murdering three street vendors in 2003 and reporting them as members of a criminal band. On 26 April 2006, Juan Francisco Parra Santamaria, Elkin…
Colombia has yet to decide on the military pact with the US, Foreign Minster Maria Angela Holguin said on Monday in response to a coalition senator who had said that the…
General Francisco Contreras, commander of the armed forces in Peru, on Thursday said Colombia’s guerrilla group FARC uses Peruvian territory for military purposes. Contreras specifies the FARC uses areas over the…
The armed forces commanders of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru are set to meet Thursday at the shared border of the three nations to discuss security in the Amazon region, reports…
Members of the army based in eastern Colombia protected and helped “Cuchillo,” one of Colombia’s most wanted paramilitary drug lords, a soldier told newscast Noticias Uno. According to soldier John…
The Colombian government on Monday asked the Constitutional Court to release the ruling in which it blocked a pact giving the U.S. access to Colombian military bases and airports. Following…