Human Rights 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.