A community leader has been killed in southern Colombia, making him the 28th since a peace deal with guerrilla group FARC came into effect, news website Pacifista reported Wednesday. According to the…
Colombian authorities on Monday reported the first civilian casualties of an ongoing war between ELN guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries in the west of the country. According to Human Rights watch, the community…
Colombia’s government denies the existence of paramilitary groups in the country, ignoring the fact that these groups have existed (and whose existence has been denied) for decades. Almost all the country’s…
Colombia has made 56 arrests in investigations into the killings of 133 community leaders and rights activists that have taken place since the beginning of 2016. Assassins of four leaders have been convicted,…
Colombia’s military is failing to enter former FARC territories, effectively allowing paramilitary groups and drug gangs to fill the void and set in motion a new wave of terror, homicides and forced…
Locals from northwest Colombia who last week blocked the demobilization of local FARC guerrillas agreed on Monday to allow the demobilization after the defense minister promised to send more troops to the…
“Tell us Mr. President, what is going to happen to those other groups?” folkloric chanters from the war-torn village of Bojaya sang at the peace ceremony with Marxist FARC guerrillas…
The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), the South American country’s largest neo-paramilitary group, has 8,000 members, the group’s spokesperson told Colombia Reports. The number given by AGC spokesperson “Raul Jaramillo”…