Tag: FARC

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 08:07 UTC

  Paraguay sends the Army to the north of the country to combat guerrilla groups

  

  Paraguay troops begun pouring into two Northern provinces Monday evening where a state of exception was declared to try and combat an outbreak of guerrilla attacks that has killed members of the police forces, kidnapped for ransom and robbed local banks.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 06:11 UTC

  Colombian Army uncovers 2.000 FARC landmines; most casualties civilians

  

  The Colombian army has found 1,961 landmines this year that were planted by FARC guerrillas in Putumayo, a jungle province on Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador and Peru, military spokesmen said.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:37 UTC

  Colombia Defence minister resigns; deep reshuffle in forces anticipated

  

  Colombia's Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera resigned Wednesday amid growing criticism of the security forces and increasing attacks by the narco-terrorist rebel groups in the country. Last week it was also revealed that the number of ‘disappeared’ in Colombia is almost 62.000.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:10 UTC

  Colombia forces change strategy and will attack terrorists with small scale units

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to develop better strategies in the war on the Marxist oriented drugs funded guerrillas who still manage regular small attacks despite being at their weakest in decades.

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 10:09 UTC

  Colombia signs landmark “Victims Law” to redress victims of internal conflict

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed into law Friday a landmark “Victims' Law” aimed at redressing the estimated 4 million victims of the country's long-running internal running conflict.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 08:10 UTC

  IISS: cross-border sanctuaries have been key for the survival of Colombia’s FARC

  

  The ability of Colombia’s largest insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC), to rely on cross-border sanctuaries has long been key to its survival, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 01:19 UTC

  Colombian defence minister says FARC are surrounded and diminished

  

  Colombian Defence minister Rodrigo Rivera said that the FARC guerrilla movement is surrounded and with its operational capacity very diminished and limited, because of the current policy from the administration of President Juan Manuel Gomez.

• Friday, February 18th 2011 - 14:19 UTC

  Colombian president says he has FARC leader and his command on target

  

  Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said this week that military forces know the exact hiding place and movements of the FARC guerrilla maximum leader, Alfonso Cano, and brushed aside any chance that he might escape.

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:10 UTC

  Colombian rebels release hostage but at the same time kidnap two contractors

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos blasted Thursday the “double moral” of the FARC guerrilla that kidnapped two workers while preparing for the release of several hostages held for years and revealed he was tempted to suspend the liberation operation.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 14:11 UTC

  Uribe confirms Wikileaks: he was prepared to cross into Venezuela territory

  

  Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) confirmed the contents of a confidential US State Department confidential cable exposed by Wikileaks, according to which he contemplated sending troops across into Venezuelan territory to capture and arrest FARC guerrilla leaders.