Colombian intelligence claim to have uncovered an document written by FARC commander in chief “Alfonso Cano” containing plans to “infiltrate” the Andean country’s national bicentenary celebrations on July 20. The…
Canadian oil company Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) announced Monday that it has discovered oil in Colombia’s Putumayo Basin and hopes to begin production in early 2011, announced the company’s website.…
A policeman was killed and another three were injured in an attack by Colombian guerrilla group the FARC in the south-western department of Putumayo, reported Colombian media. According to authorities,…
The Colombian armed forces on Wednesday claimed they killed FARC commander “Edgar Tovar” in an attack last month. According to the authorities, the prominent rebel was killed on January 20…
Colombian police have arrested the former leader of a right-wing paramilitary death squad accused of ordering at least 2,500 murders, judicial investigators said on Tuesday. Arnolfo Santamaria, alias “Pipa,” was…
The Colombian army claimed on Wednesday to have killed nine FARC guerrillas in the southern Colombian Putumayo department. Four injured guerrillas were arrested. Among those arrested are one woman and…
Cali authorities say they arrested the second commander of the FARC’s 48th Front, active in the highly volatile south of Colombia. The alleged guerrilla-leader, Delio ‘Juanca’ Tobón Ortiz is said…
Over 270 people have been infected with an unidentified virus potentially caused by toxic herbicides in Colombia’s southern department of Putumayo, declared emergency authorities Monday. Father Julio Cesar Mora, spokesman…
Former paramilitary leader John Jairo ‘Betun’ Rentería Zuñiga, of the Sur del Putumayo paramilitary group has told prosecutors that there are allegedly 800 bodies of those murdered by the group…