Tag: EMC

• Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 19:46 UTC

  Colombian VP's car shot at; she was elsewhere

  

  The car Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez usually rides was shot at Wednesday although the apparent target of the onslaught was not aboard at the time of the attack, it was reported from her native southwestern city of Suárez.

• Friday, April 26th 2024 - 15:08 UTC

  Colombian Army kills 15 rebels after failing peace talks

  

  Colombia's Army this week gunned down 15 rebels from the EMC guerrillas, a dissident group from the old FARC operating in the department of Cauca that refuses to enter peace talks with Bogotá. “War is war,” President Gustavo Petro argued after the latest military update, meaning that these things happen when one of the parties leaves the negotiating table. Another 12 rogue fighters were wounded, it was reported.