Colombia making ‘substantial progress’ with peace deal: Santos
Colombia is making “substantial progress” in getting its stalled peace deal with Marxist rebels back on track and hopes to have a deal very soon, the country’s President Juan Manuel…
Colombia is making “substantial progress” in getting its stalled peace deal with Marxist rebels back on track and hopes to have a deal very soon, the country’s President Juan Manuel…
A new peace deal with FARC rebels could be finished by the end of November, Colombia President Santos told Spanish press agency EFE. To ratify this renegotiated deal Santos said a…
Nelson Pinedo, one of Colombia’s most significant musicians of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Valencia, Venezuela 17 days after suffering a stroke. He was 88 years old. Billo’s Caracas Boys Orchestra confirmed the…
The ELN, Colombia’s largest and oldest rebel group after the FARC, will engage in peace talks with the government for the eighth time since the group’s formation in 1964. These…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Wednesday vowed to internally investigate the fate of some 500 people who were kidnapped by the guerrillas but are now unaccounted for. The guerrillas…
Authorities said they have found the bodies of eight people, while an unknown number of people are still missing after a major landslide hit the Bogota-Medellin highway. The national director of…
Since the group’s first appearance in 1964, Colombia’s government has engaged in peace talks with the ELN seven times, but never succeeded to convince the Marxist rebels to demobilize and disarm. The…
Colombia government representatives were grilled by the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee on Wednesday over the South American country’s human rights situation. The UN inquiry on Colombia’s human rights situation was…
Colombia’s government and FARC rebels must reach a new political deal quickly to prevent the peace process from unraveling, the UN envoy warned Wednesday. The historic peace accord that ended…