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Colombia peace tribunal charges 19 soldiers for 300 murders

26-07-2022 17:11 Soldiers who committed war crimes in Colombia in the 2000s have finally been brought to justice, with the special peace tribunal charging 19 for the murder of 303 people.

FARC

Colombian forces kill FARC dissident leader

18-07-2022 14:19 Death of rebel leader Nestor Vera described by Colombian government as “final blow” to FARC.

New Era in Colombia

Colombian president-elect proposes 'ceasefire,' talks with ELN

06-07-2022 15:46 Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro proposes a "bilateral ceasefire" with the violence-stricken country's last active guerrilla group, the ELN.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Colombian Truth Commission hands over grim final report on civil conflict

28-06-2022 21:35 Final 896-page report probes atrocities committed during Colombia’s near six-decade civil conflict and includes testimony from more than 14,000 victims of the fighting between leftist guerillas, far-right paramilitary groups and state agents.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

20-06-2022 14:35 Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first ever left-wing president after defeating millionaire businessman rival Rodolfo Hernández in run-off.

Latin America

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

18-06-2022 01:20 A former leftist guerrilla and a millionaire businessman will go head-to-head on Sunday hoping to become the new president of Colombia.

Colombia Election 2022

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

17-06-2022 18:22 Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off. Opinion polls have leftist Gustavo Petro and businessman Rodolfo Hernández neck-and-neck.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

31-05-2022 11:18 Rodolfo Hernández, who was little known at the start of the year, surged into Colombia’s presidential run-off – and he now has a real chance at winning against leftist rival Gustavo Petro.

BLOOMBERG

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

19-05-2022 08:00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez would figure to be one of the people fretting the most about the looming election of the first left-wing leader in Colombia’s modern history. But, at least publicly, he betrays little angst about the outcome of the vote this month.

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE DEAL

Colombia marks five years since signing of peace accords

24-11-2021 17:40 Colombia on Wednesday marked five years since the signing of historic peace accords that ended a near six-decade conflict.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE DEAL

UN concern over 'enemies of peace' in Colombia

24-11-2021 17:35 Some 13,000 guerrillas have surrendered their arms since 2016, but violence persists in many regions of Colombia where FARC dissidents continue to fight paramilitary and rebel groups and drug-traffickers.

Human rights

Ex-Colombia president Uribe denies blame for killings

17-08-2021 13:36 Colombia's military carried out at least 6,400 extrajudicial killings between 2002 and 2008, during Uribe's presidency, a special court investigating nation's decades-long armed conflict concluded in June.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court investigates FARC for recruitment of 18,000 children

11-08-2021 15:57 Colombia's former rebel group being investigated over alleged recruitment of more than 18,000 children to fight in guerrilla conflict against state.

FARC

Colombia militant jailed for 28 years for Ecuador press murders

11-06-2021 18:53 Gustavo Angulo Arboleda, also known as "Cherry", confessed to abducting and killing of two journalists and their driver on the border between Ecuador and Colombia.

Colombia

Buenaventura: Colombia's port of the missing

27-05-2021 13:21 In the last 20 years, Some 779 people have been forcibly disappeared in Buenaventura, Colombia. The poor neighbourhood of La Playita, near the city's port, has seen 44 murders so far this year alone.

Maduro's Venezuela

Venezuela to request UN aid to clear mines from Colombia border

05-04-2021 12:34 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said in a televised speech that the country is preparing to ask for immediate emergency aid from the UN to defuse antipersonnel mines allegedly placed in the southeast of the country by Colombian armed groups.

COLOMBIA

Tribunal charges former FARC members with war crimes

29-01-2021 17:53 Eight high-ranking members of Colombia's now-defunct FARC guerilla movement, including serving politicians, are being charged with war crimes, a court said Thursday.

HUMAN RIGHTS

United Nations condemns spike in Colombia 'massacres'

18-08-2020 08:46 The United Nations peace mission in Colombia condemns a spiral of violence engulfing the country, saying it had documented 33 massacres so far this year.