A contractor gets 38 years for the murder of two leaders of the union at a Drummond mine; the judge asks for an investigation of the company’s managers back in Alabama.
Colombia’s peace advocates are calling for inclusion of the ELN guerillas in the Havana dialogue with the FARC, warning of a “marginalized” front in the civil war.
Panama announced the arrest of the top leader of the Oficina de Envigado, a Colombian crime syndicate said to be a surviving remnant of Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellín Cartel.
Jurists in Medellín are protesting the decision by Colombia's prosecutor to transfer attorney Patricia Hernández, who has spent years working against local paramilitaries.
A Nasa indigenous leader was assassinated in an ambush by FARC guerillas at the village of Jámbalo, Cauca department, just as the rebels announced an end to their ceasefire.
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Guerillas of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) abducted five gold prospectors working for a Canadian company on an exploratory mission in Bolívar department.
Colombia’s FARC rebels announced the immediate end of a two-month unilateral ceasefire and renewed its call for a bilateral truce to hold peace talks with the government.
Two men on a motorcycle gunned down a labor leader as tensions grew in a dispute between petroleum workers and their employer—as police try to implicate the union.
A Michigan autoworker has joined nine former employees of General Motors’ Colombian subsidiary who resumed a hunger strike they started last summer to protest their firings.
Colombia sends warships into waters newly awarded to Nicaragua by the World Court, as Managua aggressively plugs an inter-oceanic canal plan to foreign investors.
Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos stated that war with Nicaragua is a "last resort"—while withdrawing official recognition from the World Court over the martime dispute.
