Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebel group will continue its fight for social justice under a peace deal with the government, its top commander said on Saturday at the opening of the group’s final congress as an…
Like almost everybody, I am appalled by the thought of a war criminal evading prison and even enter congress if peace with Colombia’s FARC rebels takes effect. But the bartered victims deal is much more than…
With polls indicating that Colombia is increasingly likely to approve a peace deal with the FARC, the possibility of a landslide defeat is causing cracks in the conservative opposition. According to a poll released…
Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels have reduced the number of concentration camps for demobilizing guerrillas after visits to the sites. The government and the guerrillas made the announcement from Yari, Caqueta,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday acknowledged the state’s responsibility in the killing of thousands of members of a leftist political party three decades ago and pledged to prevent…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, will celebrate the end of its half-a-century war against the state with a music festival that will be attended by some of the country’s most iconic…
Former President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday challenged his successor, current President Juan Manuel Santos, to a public debate about the vices and virtues of a pending peace deal with the…
More than 200 rebel commanders gathered from across Colombia to attend a guerrilla conference during which the FARC will dissolve following a peace deal with the government. “Timochenko,” the supreme leader of the organization, and rebel negotiators arrived…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, will surrender some 20,000 weapons to the United Nations in the six months after signing a deal to end 52 years of armed conflict…