A group of 28 policemen asked their commanders for permission to retreat from a small town in northeast Colombia after the FARC destroyed the police station there, leaving the officials as sitting ducks, newspaper El…
Hundreds of farmers held a peaceful demonstration outside the ombudsman’s office in Bogota Thursday to protest the government’s inaction on enforcing rural workers’ rights legislation passed in 2014.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has denied accusations it publicly displayed the amputated leg of a soldier near a high school.
Authorities on Friday fiercely criticized rebel group ELN for allegedly using a soldier’s amputated leg to terrorize the local population of a town in northern Colombia.
Colombian police said Monday that they found 130 kilos of marijuana inside a coffin at a road block near the Venezuelan border.
Three Colombian police officers were killed and a fourth was wounded in an attack a northern Colombian state that borders Venezuela, the National Police said.
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, has released four geologists who had been kidnapped little over a month ago, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
Colombia’s armed forces on Saturday said that they had killed at least six presumed ELN guerrillas in combat in a troubled region in the north of the country.
Four geologists have been kidnapped in a rural area of northern Colombia, according to the country’s geological agency SGC, which said ELN leftist rebels are the likely culprits.