Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday asked American businesses with interests in Colombia to lobby against a cut in economic aid as proposed by US President Donald Trump. Speaking before the…
No more than 47 of approximately 30,000 paramilitaries who demobilized more than a decade ago have since been convicted of war crimes, reported Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo Thursday. The “Justice…
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved the political inclusion of former guerrilla group FARC, whose members will have guaranteed seats for two electoral terms. The Senate vote allows the FARC to form…
Two demobilized FARC member have been assassinated in southwest Colombia in the past 10 days, sparking fears of a repetition of the mass killing of leftists that cost thousands of lives after a 1985 peace…
Pamphlets signed by the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, confirmed the paramilitaries’ apparent attempt to consolidate power in former FARC territories throughout the country. While some 7,000 FARC guerrillas are still in rural camps…
If you had told me three years ago that someday people wounded in combat would stop arriving in the Military Hospital, I would have said: yes of course! My military hospital…
Almost 11,500 people, primarily soldiers, have been either killed or maimed by anti-personnel mines in Colombia, according to a report by the National Center for Historical Memory. Nearly 40% of the…
Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Colombia to effectively protect community activists and social leaders who have been subjected to death threats and assassinations amid the country’s peace process. “Peace and…
In a highly emotional letter, a prominent “lady guardian of the soldier” at Colombia’s military hospital, celebrated how she has received not one soldier injured in combat in 2017, effectively converting her…