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Colombia: military, CIA spying on peace talks
Colombia’s Defense Ministry opened an investigation into claims of eavesdropping on delegations to ongoing peace talks between the government and FARC rebels.
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Colombia: war has claimed 6 million victims
The armed conflict in Colombia has claimed a total of 6,073,453 victims, according to a count by the government's Unit for Integral Reparation to Victims.
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FARC proposal to protect coca, cannabis growers
At the Havana peace talks with the Colombian government, the FARC rebels released a proposal to decriminalize and "regulate the production of coca, poppies and marijuana."
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Bogotá stand-off amid renewed repression
As Bogotá waits to see if Colombia's prosecutor general will honor a court order allowing Mayor Gustavo Petro to remain in office, threats are reported against his supporters.
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Colombia: Embera indigenous leaders assassinated
Colombia's indigenous movement charges that the government is failing to act after a wave of deadly violence and threats against Embera leaders by paramilitaries.
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Colombia: ecologists cut off talks on alpine mining
Residents in high Andean communities of northern Colombian broke off talks with the government aimed at securing consent for mining in the sensitive Páramo de Santurbán.
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Colombia: photos link Uribe to narcos, paras
Just as he has launched a new political party, photos emerge showing Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe with figures linked to the "para-politics" scandal.
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ELN bomb Colombia oil pipeline infrastructure
Colombia's ELN guerillas blew up four crude-oil holding pools along the Caño Limon pipeline, sparking a large blaze and causing the local population to flee.
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Colombia: US suspends spraying after pilots downed
The US-funded glyphosate spraying in Colombia has been indefinitely suspended after presumed FARC guerillas shot down two fumigation planes—killing a US pilot.
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Medellín terror targets Afro-Colombian family
Forty-five family members of an Afro-Colombian man who was shot in Medellin have been displaced from their homes following threats from illegal armed groups.
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CIA covert action in Colombia revealed
The Washington Post runs an in-depth report exposing CIA oversight of the Colombian government's campaign of targeted assassinations of guerilla leaders.
Colombia: intensified violence against labor leaders
The campaign of violence against organized labor in Colombia intensified in 2013, with 26 unionists assassinated—a 15% jump over the figure for 2012.