A special court for land restitution in Bolívar, Colombia, issued an historic ruling, ordering the return of 65 hectares to 14 families who had been forced from their lands by paramilitaries.
With peace talks underway in Oslo, Colombian politicians warn that the FARC’s Southern Bloc is continuing to recruit with an eye towards continuing the insurgency.
United Nations independent human rights experts urged Colombian authorities to reconsider proposed constitutional reforms affecting the military criminal law.
The Colombian National Police elite anti-riot squad, ESMAD, stormed the campus of the the Technological University of Chocó, which had been successfully occupied for 40 days.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Día de La Raza issued an official apology to indigenous communities in the Amazon for devastation caused by the rubber boom.
A new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that Peru has now achieved rough parity with Colombia in coca production, with vast new areas coming under cultivation.
Students at the University of Cundinamarca are on hunger strike, demanding university authorities negotiate on tuition, teacher contracting and educational issues.
Authorities from four countries cooperated in a months-long operation that led to the arrest in Venezuela of Daniel Barrera AKA "El Loco"—dubbed the "last of the great capos."
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos rejected a proposal by the FARC for a ceasefire during talks set to begin in Oslo next mont to end to the country's long civil war.
Colombia’s FARC guerillas released a YouTube rap video to announce peace talks with the government. The talks are to open next month in Oslo, with Cuban mediation.
Colombian army general Rito Alejo del Río Rojas, accused of forming a “macabre alliance” with paramilitary groups, was sentenced to 25 years for murder of a peasant leader.
Gen. Mauricio Santoyo, security chief to Colombia’s ex-president Álvaro Uribe, pleaded guilty before a US court to collaborating with the outlawed AUC paramilitary network.
