Tag: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

• Thursday, January 17th 2019 - 19:30 UTC

  Nine killed and dozens injured with car-bomb in Bogotá next to police academy

  

  At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured in a car bombing at a police academy in Colombia's capital, Bogotá on Thursday, recalling the high-profile attacks associated with bloodiest chapters of the country's drug-fueled guerrilla conflict.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 15:31 UTC

  Ex FARC still active guerrilla leader Guacho shot dead by Colombian forces

  

  Walter Patricio Arizala, a.k.a. “Guacho,” the FARC dissident behind the kidnapping and murder of three journalists from Quito's El Comercio newspaper, died Friday during an operation of the Colombian security forces in the jungle of Llorente, in the Tumaco municipality of the south-western department of Nariño, near the border with Ecuador, President Iván Duque announced.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Former president during one of Colombia's bloodiest periods has died

  

  Former Colombian President Belisario Betancur, who attempted to broker peace with Marxist rebels during his administration, died on Friday at the age of 95, the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota hospital said.The hospital did not provide a cause of death, but media reports said he had been admitted with kidney problems.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:40 UTC

  FARC said to be regrouping to resume guerrilla fighting in Colombia

  

  Colombian Armed Forces commanding officer General Alberto José Mejía is aware of the existence of a plan to refund the FARC guerrillas and those behind it would be the group's former leaders, Radio Caracol reported this weekend.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

  Colombian president Duque anticipates “corrections” to the peace deal with guerrillas

  

  Colombia’s youngest elected president was sworn in to office on Tuesday, promising to “make corrections” to a peace deal with leftist rebels that has divided the country and to crack down on lingering armed groups still roaming the countryside.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Ivan Duque takes office as Colombian president; staunch ally of the Trump administration

  

  Ivan Duque, who will be sworn in as Colombia’s president on Tuesday, is poised to become an unusually strong ally for the Trump administration after he made a project of cultivating ties with the White House and spotlighting shared views on drug control, counterterrorism and the unfolding political and economic crisis in next-door Venezuela.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Santos convinced that Maduro's days in Venezuela are numbered, “in the near future”

  

  Nicolas Maduro's days as president of crisis-ravaged Venezuela are numbered, his outgoing Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos told the French government news agency.“I can see it happening in the near future,” said Santos, pointing to the International Monetary Fund's latest projection that Venezuela's inflation will hit one million percent this year.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  President elect Duque pledges to unite Colombia and change the peace accord with FARC

  

  Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque, who swept aside leftist Gustavo Petro in Sunday's election, pledged to unite the nation after a divisive campaign but insisted he would change a landmark peace accord with leftist rebels

• Wednesday, June 13th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Opinion polls confirm Duque as winner in Colombia's presidential runoff

  

  Right wing candidate Ivan Duque looks set to win Colombia’s presidential run-off on June 17, two polls published on Friday indicated, as he held on to his long-running lead over leftist Gustavo Petro.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Colombia's presidential election: another referendum on the peace deal?

  

  On Sunday, Colombians will head to the polls to elect a new president. At play in this year’s election are a range of issues: Venezuelan migration, economic situation, rampant corruption, high levels of inequality, but above all is the country's historic peace accord that ended over half a century of armed conflict.