Tag: FARC

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:03 UTC

  Key guerrilla leader gunned down by Colombian forces

  

  A military operation in El Retorno, Colombia, on Sunday resulted in the death of Willinton Vanegas Leyva, also known by his alias “Dumar” or “Chito.” According to Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez Suárez, Dumar was a senior leader of the “Martín Villa faction,” a part of the FARC dissident group known as the Central General Staff (EMC), led by Iván Mordisco.

• Saturday, May 10th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  At least 11 Ecuadorean troops killed in fight against illegal mining

  

  At least 11 Ecuadorean troops were killed Friday in an ambush during an operation against illegal gold mining in the Alto Punino sector of the Amazon, near the Colombian border in Napo and Orellana provinces.

• 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.

• Tuesday, November 7th 2023 - 09:07 UTC

  Colombian president Petro peace program with guerrillas in a blackout

  

  More trouble for embattled Colombian president Gustavo Petro and his ambitious peace program. The main dissident group of former guerrillas, which refused to disarm when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) accepted a peace deal in 2016, suspended peace talks with the Colombian government on Sunday.

• Friday, June 30th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Petro says false positives were “the worst contemporary crime”

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro stressed Thursday that the so-called “false positives” were “the worst contemporary crime.” He was referring to the more than 6,400 extrajudicial executions committed by federal troops supposedly fighting rebel guerrillas. Petro made those statements after eight military personnel admitted their participation in some of those executions.

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 - 11:08 UTC

  Colombia halts ceasefire with FARC dissidents after 4 murders

  

  Colombian authorities Monday announced the unilateral suspension of the ceasefire with dissident Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), known as the Central General Staff (EMC-FARC), after the recruitment and murder of four children from the Murui indigenous community, it was reported in Bogota.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Petro links FARC groups to bomb trap that killed 7

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro said this weekend that it was very likely that dissident FARC groups were behind the bomb trap attack that killed 7 police officers last week.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Maduro's links with terrorism “a threat” to the region, opposition leader says

  

  According to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, Nicolás “Maduro's links with international terrorism are a threat to the region.”

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Another FARC dissident leader gunned down

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque Monday reported a dangerous dissident FARC leader had been gunned down by national forces in Suárez, Cauca.