The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) rolled out plans Monday for a $2 million investment geared toward improving infrastructure and public facilities in Colombia’s Monte de Maria region.
The former head of the AUC’s Montes de Maria Bloc has been charged with the homicide of six people and the forced displacement of 300, local media reported. Edwar Cobos…
The Colombian Institute for Rural Development (INCODER) has returned property titles to 37 farming families in the Montes de Maria region in northern Colombia. The title deeds were presented to…
Congressman Ivan Cepeda has asked the UN Secretary General to expel Colombian cement company Argos from the UN’s carbon trading scheme over allegations it is using land stolen from displaced…
The Week of Truth, a three day event dedicated to remembering paramilitary violence in the northern Colombian departments Sucre and Bolivar, will start on July 21 in Sincelejo, a town…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced that his country’s authorities know the whereabouts of notorious FARC commander Luciano Marin Arango, alias “Ivan Marquez,” following a massive military operation in which twelve guerrillas were…
Spokespeople for communities displaced from their homes on Colombia’s Caribbean coast say that the return of these people to their homes is too slow, due to a lack of government…