Colombia’s congress unilaterally changed a transitional justice system agreed with demobilized FARC rebels last year. The former guerrillas say the peace deal has received a “deep stab.” Congress decided to…
Dozens of international human rights organizations published an open letter to President Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday, calling on Colombia’s leader to deliver peace to Afrodescendant and indigenous communities. In a press…
A war crimes tribunal that is part of Colombia’s peace process has caused a coalition crisis and allegedly spurred opposition from the country’s chief prosecutor. The crisis in the government…
Colombia’s state has failed to comply with a peace deal signed with FARC guerrillas in November last year, the United Nations said in its harshest condemnation yet. While more than…
The general who since 2014 was in charge of a military transition during an ongoing peace process with the FARC has resigned. General Javier Florez was involved in the planning…
The assassination of three police officers protecting disarmed FARC guerrillas in southwest Colombia has raised concerns both by police authorities and the new political party. The members of the UNIPEP…
The commander of Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels on Friday ordered his fighters to begin a ceasefire this weekend as the group struggles through complicated peace talks with the government aimed…
Colombia’s hard-right opposition will try to end an ongoing peace process with far-left FARC rebels by calling a national referendum, the Democratic Center party announced Thursday. Last year, the same…
German Vargas, Colombia’s former vice-president who resigned from the position to run for president, reportedly has turned against a war crimes tribunal that is part of an ongoing peace process…