Adriaan Alsema
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 06:23
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday suspended ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC on Sunday, hours after the guerrillas had detained a general in west Colombia.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 09:24
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, expressed its discomfort on Monday over the confidentiality of ongoing peace talks with the government. According to the guerrillas, these should be held publicly.
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 06:25
The mansion is property of extradited drug trafficker “Yilmar Valencia,” said the police commissioner of Cali, General Hoover Penilla in a press conference Saturday morning.
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 11:07
Colombia’s military, its intelligence agency under former President Alvaro Uribe, and the family of former presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga were all directly involved with illegal spying on the ongoing peace talks, the alleged spy said in an interview on Sunday.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 00:00
Colombia's armed forces on Wednesday said they have destroyed more than 70 cocaine processing laboratories so far this year.
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 00:00
The mass renunciation was announced by Social Integration Secretary Jorge Rojas who said the secretaries' decision was taken out of solidarity with their mayor.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 00:00
Clashes between leftist rebel group ELN and neo-paramilitary group Urabenos have forced some 1,000 residents from the northwest of Colombia to flee their homes, the Ombudsman said Thursday.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 00:00
The southeastern districts of Cali are a hot spot of gang activity and locally infamous for it's excessive violence rates.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 00:00
The United States’ incoming ambassador to Colombia on Wednesday expressed his concerns over the recent dismissal of Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro, saying it could “erode” ongoing efforts to negotiate peace with leftist rebel group FARC.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
An attack on an electricity tower allegedly carried out by a local FARC unit in the southwest of Colombia left the 300,000 inhabitants of Buenaventura, Colombia's main port city on the Pacific, without electricity.