Members of E.L.N., a left-wing insurgency, were charged with taking part in the bombing of a police academy last year that killed 22 cadets, shaking a country emerging from a long civil war.
The coronavirus has devastated Latin America. And it has only been worsened by a wave of graft and profiteering, prosecutors say.
The deaths followed countrywide prison protests in which inmates said authorities were not doing enough to control coronavirus".
Born in the country, a rare humanitarian measure amid tightening migration policies elsewhere in the hemisphere.
A week after Venezuela’s intelligence forces detained a retired navy captain, he appeared in a military tribunal a broken man, in a wheelchair and showing signs of torture.
A Colombian prosecutor assigned to investigate the country’s largest former rebel group was arrested and accused of accepting a bribe in the case of a former rebel commander wanted in the United States, the authorities said Friday.
The walking began before dawn: before the clouds broke against the mountaintops, before the trucks took over the highway, even before anyone in the town woke up to check the vacant lot where scores of Venezuelan refugees had been huddling through the night.
he suspect in a car bombing that left 21 people dead on Thursday in Bogotá, the capital,was a member of the country’s largest remaining guerrilla group, the defense ministry said Friday.
A member of a Colombian guerrilla group said in a video released on Sunday that it was holding a French journalist and considered him a prisoner of war.
President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and the leader of his country’s largest guerrilla group said Tuesday that the two sides would soon sit down to a new phase of peace talks with the goal of ending the long conflict.
President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia said on Monday that his government had held “exploratory conversations” with the country’s largest rebel group, aimed at ending a nearly five-decade-old conflict.
At 5 a.m. Wednesday, the sun had yet to peek through the jungle canopy in the Guaviare Department of Colombia when the guerrillas told their captives to gather their belongings. A call had come in from a top adviser to Alfonso Cano, their new supreme commander. He said to move. Immediately.