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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.
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Colombia: campesinos mobilize for land, water
Campesinos across Colombia continue to press demands for return of lands usurped by paramilitaries—despite conitnued death threats and legal persecution.
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Report breaks down FARC military strategy
A leaked report from a Bogotá think-tank sees a shift from open warfare to attacks on oil infrastructure as the FARC rebels adjust to recent reversals.
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Colombia: kingpin named in Trujillo Massacre
Colombia's prosecutor charged notorious drug kingpin "Don Diego" with masterminding several massacres between 1988 and 1994 in which hundreds of peasants were killed.
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Protesters occupy Bogotá over municipal ‘coup’
Thousands of protesters continue to occupy Plaza Bolívar, the central square in Bogotá, to oppose the removal of the Colombian capital’s populist mayor, Gustavo Petro.
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Colombia: violent eviction at Cúcuta squatter camp
The feared Colombian National Police anti-riot force was mobilized to evict an encampment of campesinos who had been displaced from their homes by political violence.
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Colombia: threatened indigenous group leader slain
Two gunmen assassinated Juan Álvaro Pai, traditional governor of the endangered Awá indigenous people, in an incursion into their reserve in Colombia’s Nariño department.
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Colombia: Cauca campesino leader assassinated
Sergio Úlcue Perdomo, a campesino leader who brought a case to the OAS human rights body over paramilitary terror in Cauca, was killed at his home by unknown gunmen.
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Bogotá and FARC sign deal on political guarantees
Colombia's government and the FARC rebels signed a landmark agreement in Havana, providing guarantees for the guerrilla group's political participation after a final peace deal.