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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...

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,...

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