A UN report warns that Colombia's humanitarian situation remains severe in spite of ongoing peace talks with the FARC, stressing continued paramilitary activity.
While Colombia's right fears incorporation of the FARC into a new rural police force, rebel leaders protest that the army continues offensives against them—despite peace talks.
Amid peace talks in Havana, Colombia's FARC issued an angry communique insisting "We are not narco-traffickers." But major coke busts supposedly linked to the guerillas continue.
With peace talks set to resume, Colombia’s FARC rebels charge that the military is continuing “offensive operations” despite a unilateral ceasefire declared by the guerillas.
Fighting continued up to the minute a unilateral FARC ceasefire took effect, with Colombia's government refusing rebel demands for foreign observers to monitor the truce.
Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe called for a "rebellion" against the government of his successor Juan Manuel Santos over perceived capitulation to the FARC guerillas.
Colombian Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate resigned one day after his release by FARC guerillas who had captured the top official unarmed in rebel-controlled territory.
Colombia's government suspended peace talks with the FARC after the apparent capture of an army general by the guerillas for the first time in 50 years of insurgency.
A Nasa indigenous court in Toribio, in Colombia's Cauca department, convicted seven FARC guerillas over the murder of two members of the local Indigenous Guard.
Colombia's FARC guerillas admitted to causing harm to the population during the 50 years of their war against the state, and vowed to assume responsibility for their victims.
At least 18 bodies found in three mass graves near the pueblo of Tacueyó in Colombia’s Cauca department are believed to be victims of a guerilla massacre.
The presidents of Colombia and Peru pledged to launch a joint operation to "cleanse" the Putumayo river valley of criminal gangs that control the remote jungle border zone.
