Kidnapped geologist released by ELN in northern Colombia
A geologist kidnapped in June by Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, was set free Wednesday in the northeastern state of Norte de Santander.
A geologist kidnapped in June by Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, was set free Wednesday in the northeastern state of Norte de Santander.
Five semi-trucks carrying oil were set alight in northern Colombia’s Norte de Santander state Wednesday morning, blocking access between the state’s two main cities, according to Colombia’s Blu Radio.
A fugitive army major convicted of false positives and sentenced to 53 years in jail has been discovered and recaptured following a police response to an incident of domestic violence…
Colombia’s northeastern indigenous U’wa community, embroiled in tensions with the national government, said ministers failed to show up on Monday at a meeting over the indigenous’ blocking of the repair…
A Friday meeting between the U’wa community, the Minister of Mines, and other senior officials in Norte de Santander ended without agreement, reported national media, leaving no resolution to the…
A local government human rights official in Colombia’s north-east has refuted reports in national media that hundreds of people are still at high risk of being displaced by security forces.
An unidentified rebel group torched a truck and lowbed trailer in Colombia’s violence-ridden northeast, Caracol Radio reported on Monday.
Hundreds of residents of Cucuta on Thursday took part in a shut-down of the northeastern city, in protest of ongoing economic hardship in the city that is suffering from impeded…
A nationally protected wilderness area in the eastern Colombian province of Norte de Santander will be increased by four fold in an effort to restrict large scale mining damages and…