The President of the Patriotic Union (UP), a far left political party, has defended rebel group FARC’s proposal to convene a national constituent assembly to endorse a potential peace accord…
Leaders of the leftist guerrilla group FARC have used the peace talks in Cuba to demand the truth about the government’s involvement with the deaths of members of the Patriotic…
Colombia’s State Council on Tuesday allowed the Patriotic Union (UP), a communist party that saw thousands of its members assassinated, to take part in next year’s elections.
In a historic ruling, the Colombian State has given land rights to the family of a “missing” member of the FARC linked, now-defunct, Patriotic Union political party. In a ruling…
As peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC progress, the former political party of the FARC, Patriotic Union (UP), requested the government lift its band and let the group…
The former president of Colombia’s house of representatives was convicted on Wednesday of financing and orchestrating a 1988 paramilitary-led massacre that killed 43 people – a crime he previously denied…
Supporters will march in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Thursday in memory of killed left wing party members of the Patriotic Union. In remembrance of the thousands of murdered communist party…
After enduring a history of killings and disappearances committed by armed actors of the paramilitary and the State, a special protection program for surviving members of the Patriotic Union and…
Colombia’s defunct communist party may soon revive, due to a lawsuit claiming it met its end through “political genocide,” Colombian sources reported. The Patriotic Union (UP) party lost legal status…