Tag: Colombia

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:43 UTC

  Santos orders resumption of bombing raids after FARC attack kills 10 soldiers

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered the resumption of bombing raids against FARC rebels after an attack he blamed on the group killed 10 soldiers, a move that will intensify combat after efforts to cool tensions.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 13:12 UTC

  Colombia's FARC reject submission to judicial processes as “common criminals”

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels cannot be submitted to the same judicial processes as “common criminals” under a possible peace deal, the Marxist group said on Friday. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made the comments after President Juan Manuel Santos said in an interview that the biggest hurdle to signing peace would be getting the group to agree to face justice after 50 years of war.

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Colombia and FARC agree to clear minefields; 11.000 people killed in 15 years

  

  Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace talks being held in Cuba.

• Thursday, February 19th 2015 - 05:57 UTC

  Colombia's Ecopetrol slashes offshore exploration budget

  

  Colombia's state-run oil producer Ecopetrol will drill three offshore wells this year, two off its Caribbean Coast and a third in the Gulf of Mexico, after slashing its offshore exploration budget to 200 million dollars down from 632 million last year, the company said.

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 17:41 UTC

  FARC vows to lay down arms and to reinvent itself as a political party

  

  Colombian FARC guerrillas on Saturday vowed to lay down their weapons and reinvent themselves as a political party, if the Colombian government follows through with the reforms under discussion in peace talks.

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 12:30 UTC

  FARC invites Colombia's newly-crowned Miss Universe to attend peace talks

  

  Rebels with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, on Saturday invited the newly-crowned Miss Universe to attend peace talks with the Colombian government.

• Saturday, January 17th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

  UK visa applications in Uruguay will be decided in Bogotá

  

  As of 26 January 2015, applications for visas for the United Kingdom made in Uruguay will be decided in Bogota. United Kingdom Visas and Immigration, which has the responsibility for issuing UK visas overseas, is introducing a change to its network as part of a broader change program.

• Wednesday, January 7th 2015 - 04:20 UTC

  Colombia launches first Antarctic research expedition with Chilean training

  

  Colombia's first Antarctica expedition is expected to call in Punta Arenas on Wednesday before crossing to the peninsula to begin a three-month scientific hydrographic and climate research with twenty researchers on board committed to ten projects.

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 08:59 UTC

  FARC release captured Colombian soldier in 'gesture of peace'

  

  Wounded combatant handed over to International Red Cross, Cuban and Norwegian dignataries

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 06:55 UTC

  FARC Christmas message calls for end to military operations against them

  

  The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) sent a Christmas message to President Juan Manuel Santos and military officers demanding that all military operations against them be stopped. Wounded soldier to be released.