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Rural protests erupt across Colombia, blocking major trade route

Outraged by government failures to honor a peace deal with the FARC, rural communities across...

Colombia’s peasants and ethnic minorities ended almost two weeks of strikes, protests and...

After 11 days of strikes the Colombian government, farmers and ethnic minority protesters have...

After more than 10 days of major social unrest in Colombia’s countryside, the government and...

Spokesmen of of a week-long uprising of tens of thousands of small farmers and minorities in...

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to personally attend talks to end ongoing mass...

Rural organizations and the government said late Saturday they have agreed to de-escalate mass...

The Colombian Government has sent a commission of ministers to negotiate with leaders of ongoing...

Expanding agrarian and indigenous strikes hit at least half of Colombia’s 32 provinces...

Some 100 masked protesters occupied the Colombia’s ministry of agriculture in the capital...

A number of farmers’ right organizations on Sunday called a day of protest for Monday,...

Hundreds of farmers held a peaceful demonstration outside the ombudsman’s office in Bogota...