Colombia’s paramilitary successors continue to threaten human rights defenders
Paramilitary successor groups have issued fresh threats against Colombian human rights...
Tag: Nuevo Arco Iris
Politicians from northern Colombia behind alleged plot to kill analysts: El Tiempo
Colombian politicians with ties to a criminal group are behind an alleged plot to assassinate two...
Colombian authorities thwart plot to assassinate political analysts and reporter
Colombian authorities said Monday they have thwarted a plot to assassinate two political analysts...
Colombia congressmen make surprise visit to peace talks
Some politicians have claimed that the trip taken on Sunday by six Colombian congressmen to meet with the peace negotiators for the government and country’s largest guerrilla group FARC is duplicitous, unprofessional, and...
ELN could ‘grow to 6K members’: NGO
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, could grow from 2,500 to 6,000 armed members if not allowed to participate in the ongoing FARC-government peace talks, said conflict-monitoring NGO Indepaz on Friday. According to...
FARC violence diminished 80% during ceasefire: NGO
Violence attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, “diminished 80%” during the first week of January compared to the same period last year. According to the conflict-monitoring NGO Nuevo Arco Iris, January 2012 was the...
Demobilized guerrillas ready to apologize
Former guerrilla leaders are prepared to apologize for their crimes after Colombia’s Minister of Justice Juan Carlos Esguerra called for approximately 10,000 demobilized members of leftist armed groups to contribute to the...
Former paramilitaries form anti-land restitution army: NGO
Former paramilitaries are being re-enlisted in a private army which will be used to violently resist the restitution of land to displaced farmers in the north-Colombia Cesar department, according to NGO Nuevo Arco Iris. The...
Colombia neo-paramilitary groups ‘have protection of the state’: Think tank
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups continue to enjoy the protection of elements of the state, the director of a leading think tank said Tuesday. In an interview with Colombia Reports, Leon Valencia, director of Corporacion...
Number of FARC attacks highest in 15 years: Think tank
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC has carried out a total of 2,148 attacks in 2011; the highest number in 15 years, a Colombian think tank said Monday. According to Leon Valencia, director of the leftist think tank...
ERPAC demobilization was media show: NGO
The demobilization and the subsequent release of almost all 280 alleged members of neo-paramilitary group ERPAC was nothing but a media show, said Nuevo Arco Iris, an NGO specialized in monitoring Colombia’s conflict,...
Colombian columnist flees country amid death threats: colleague
Prominent columnist and conflict analyst Leon Valencia has fled Colombia due to death threats, while his colleague told RCN Radio Wednesday he will have to leave the country as well. Ariel Avila, an investigator for the...
