Colombia’s House of Representatives will try to repeat a vote on a transitional war crimes tribunal on Tuesday after a previous vote was nullified because too few congressmen had shown up. The transitional…
Hundred days after they signed peace, Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas met again over the weekend and promised to speed up the implementation of peace-building measures. The meetings began on…
Colombia suspended a coca crop substitution pilot program after locals turned against the project, claiming the government failed to honor commitments made to coca-growing communities in a peace deal with Marxist FARC guerrillas.…
Spain’s former Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and Uruguay’s former President Jose Mujica will lead the commission verifying whether Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas comply with a peace deal signed in November last year. According to a press…
Amid increasing criticism about Colombia’s national army’s apparent failure to take control over territory abandoned by demobilized FARC guerrillas, its commander is doing all within his power not to talk…
Colombia’s armed conflict is “alive as ever” in “large parts” of the South American country, Amnesty International (AI) said Monday, three months after the government signed peace with the country’s…
The first dissident FARC group surrendered to authorities on Saturday, only three months after refusing to demobilize with Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the military said. “Mojoso,” the first commander of the FARC’s dissident 14th…
In the three months that followed a peace deal with Marxist FARC guerrillas, Colombia’s Congress has only been able to approve three of 30 bills that were supposed to be “fast-tracked”…
Colombia’s Congress on Monday approved the formation of a transitional justice system should bring justice to approximately 8 million victims of more than half a century of war. The justice system, consisting of a…