Colombia: multinationals on 'trial' for rights abuses
Text An "Ethical Trial against Plunder" was held in Bogotá to air testimony on the environmental and human rights practices of mining and oil interests in Colombia. An activist tribunal dubbed the...
View ArticleColombia: kingpin named in Trujillo Massacre
Text Colombia's prosecutor charged notorious drug kingpin "Don Diego" with masterminding several massacres between 1988 and 1994 in which hundreds of peasants were killed.The Fiscalía, Colombia's...
View ArticleReport breaks down FARC military strategy
Text 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.Colombia's oldest rebel group FARC has...
View ArticleELN bomb Colombia oil pipeline infrastructure
Text 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.The "Comandante Diego" Front of...
View ArticleMay Day mining disaster in Colombia
Text An unknown number of miners—perhaps as many as 40—were buried alive as an illegal gold mine collapsed at El Palmar, in Colombia's southern region of Cauca.An unknown number of miners—perhaps as...
View ArticleColombia: protest, rebel attacks depress oil output
Text Colombian crude production sank to a 20-month low of 935,000 barrels per day as guerilla attacks and protests by impacted indigenous communities curbed output.Colombian crude production sank to a...
View ArticleColombia to get truth commission
Text In the ongoing peace talks in Havana, Colombia's government and the FARC rebels agreed to a truth commission to addresses the deaths of thousands in five decades of conflict.In the ongoing peace...
View ArticleColombia: Chocó indigenous leaders assassinated
Text Two leaders of the Embera Dobida people in Colombia's Chocó region were assassinated after protesting incursions onto their lands by guerillas and paramilitaries alike.The president of the...
View ArticleColombia's indigenous communities at risk: report
Text Despite peace talks with the FARC, armed conflict and displacement persist as threats to Colombia's indigenous peoples, according to the country's indigenous organization.Armed conflict and...
View ArticleColombia: Santos under fire over peace process
Text Colombia's Prosecutor General Alejandro Ordoñez slammed President Juan Manuel Santos for "protecting a terrorist" by failing to arrest FARC leader "Timochenko."At a Conservative Party conference...
View ArticleColombia: FARC declare ceasefire —amid fighting
Text 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 army accused...
View ArticleColombia: will government answer FARC ceasefire?
Text 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.Negotiations between...
View ArticleColombia: rights situation grim despite peace talks
Text A UN report warns that Colombia's humanitarian situation remains severe in spite of ongoing peace talks with the FARC, stressing continued paramilitary activity.Colombia's humanitarian situation...
View ArticleColombia: ELN abducts gold prospectors
Guerillas of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) abducted five gold prospectors working for a Canadian company on an exploratory mission in Norosi municipality, Bolívar department, Jan. 19. One...
View ArticleColombia: ELN to join peace talks?
Norma Enríquez, a leader of the Permanent Assembly of Civil Society for Peace, an umbrella of Colombian NGOs and popular organizations, on Feb. 10 called on the government to include the National...
View ArticleColombia: guerillas free captives
After tense negotiations, the Red Cross transported to safety Feb. 15 two Colombian National Police agents being held by the FARC guerillas since Jan. 25. The release had been delayed due to large...
View ArticleColombia: rebels attack coal mine amid strike
Colombia's largest coal miner, Cerrejon, said Feb. 24 that rebels broke into its facility at Mina Sur, La Guajira department, and burned four of the company's trucks in what it called a "terrorist...
View ArticleBlasts shut Colombia's second largest oil pipeline
Two explosions shut down Colombia's 80,000 barrel-per-day Caño Limon-Covenas oil pipeline, state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol said July 5, with a military source describing them as attacks carried...
View ArticleColombia: multinationals on 'trial' for rights abuses
An activist tribunal dubbed the Ethical Trial against Plunder (Juicio Ético contra el Despojo) was held in Bogotá over the weekend to air testimony against the practices of multinational gold firm...
View ArticleColombia: kingpin named in Trujillo Massacre
The Fiscalía, Colombia's public prosecutor, on Dec. 9 formally charged a notorious drug kingpin for masterminding several massacres between 1988 and 1994 in which hundreds of people were killed. The...
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