ELN orders lockdown in western Colombia
Guerrilla organization ELN ordered a three-day lockdown in the Choco province amid clashes with paramilitary organization EGC along Colombia’s pacific coast. The lockdown took force on Tuesday and will last…
Guerrilla organization ELN ordered a three-day lockdown in the Choco province amid clashes with paramilitary organization EGC along Colombia’s pacific coast. The lockdown took force on Tuesday and will last…
A representative of Colombia’s government met with commanders of paramilitary organization EGC to prepare possible negotiations about their demobilization. The government’s negotiator, Alvaro Jimenez, met with five of the members…
The commander of the National Police said that retired army major Juan Carlos Rodriguez, a.k.a. “Zeus,” and seven other members of paramilitary organization EGC were killed in an operation on…
Guerrilla group ELN confined tens of thousands of people from western Colombia to their homes in order to fight paramilitary organization EGC. The guerrillas issued the indefinite lockdown order in…
President Gustavo Petro authorized a “socio-judicial conversation” with the EGC, Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization. According to a presidential decree, this conversation seeks to convince the EGC’s top commanders of the…
The multinational Zijin Mining Group sued Colombia over alleged failures to protect its mining interests from violence by paramilitary group EGC. The lawsuit was filed before the World Bank’s International…
The leaders of Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization asked President Gustavo Petro to suspend the warrants for their arrest in order to negotiate peace. In an open letter to the president,…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has revived the possibility of negotiations with the AGC to demobilize the paramilitary organization. During a visit of the northwestern Uraba region, the stomping ground of…
Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office issued an alert about escalating tensions between paramilitary organization AGC and Venezuelan drug trafficking organization Tren de Aragua in Bogota. In the alert, the Ombudsman’s Office said…