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Montevideo, November 29th 2025 - 07:34 UTC

Tag: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

  • Sunday, November 16th 2025 - 07:27 UTC

    Sweden to supply Gripen jets to Colombia; Petro orders bombing of narco-terrorist camp

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro confirmed the agreement reached with Sweden’s Saab aircraft manufacturer to buy 17 Gripen jets at a cost of US$ 4,3 billion

    Colombia signed a US$ 4.3 billion deal to buy Swedish Gripen fighter jets at a time when the country, once a staunch ally of the US, is now ruled by a left leaning government locked in tension with President Donald Trump in his Caribbean battle against what he calls narco-terrorist regimes.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Colombian authorities gun down guerrilla leader Cholinga

    Cholinga had links to drug trafficking organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel

    Colombian Army troops gunned down Wilmar Pazu Rivera, alias “Cholinga,” a leader of the FARC dissidents' Isaías Pardo Bloc within the Central General Staff (EMC), during a Joint Command of Special Operations (CCOES) mission in the hamlet of Las Dalias, in the municipality of Paez (Cauca), President Gustavo Petro announced.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 23:17 UTC

    Petro and Maduro discuss cooperation in tackling drug trafficking

    It was the first contact between both leftwing leaders after Maduro's questionable Jan. 10 inauguration following the controversial July 28, 2024, election results

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro discussed with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro the possibility of tackling drug trafficking together on the border between the two countries, particularly “in the Catatumbo River” where a joint action plan is under development given the security crisis stemming from activities by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.

  • Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Petro wants Biden to pardon high-profile FARC leader

    A former guerrilla himself, Petro said that releasing Trinidad would contribute to his country's peace

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro would like his US colleague Joseph Biden to pardon convicted Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera, alias Simón Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for kidnapping in a federal facility in the State of Colorado.

  • Tuesday, April 9th 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    Former Venezuelan General sentenced to 21 years in a US jail

    Alcalá was also said to have tried to overthrow Maduro

    A former Venezuelan General involved in drug trafficking and who has admitted to helping the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas was sentenced Monday to 21 years in jail by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in a Manhattan federal court.

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 07:41 UTC

    Colombia: Rebels demand ceasefire honored, or else...

    “It is necessary to reestablish the bilateral and national ceasefire,” the guerrillas insisted

    A dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Sunday asked President Gustavo Pedtro's administration to reestablish a nationwide ceasefire or else Colombian Army facilities would be attacked. The rebel Central General Staff (EMC) also asked civilians to stay away from military and police officers.

  • Friday, August 11th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

    Former FARC guerrilla fighter dies in Buenos Aires riots

    The overweight rioter decompensated while being held by police officers on the floor

    An Argentine national with a criminal record as a member of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) died Thursday in Buenos Aires after being arrested by the City Police amid riots staged by leftwing groups around the iconic Obelisk, it was reported.

  • Monday, September 19th 2022 - 08:44 UTC

    Colombian gov't, dissident FARC guerrillas hold preliminary peace talks

    The Colombian government's commissioner has a past linked to insurgent groups

    Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda, and representatives of dissident Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas have met during the weekend to discuss possible talks, according to a statement released on Saturday.

  • Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 06:28 UTC

    Guerrilla group fights in Colombia put civilians in danger

    Local indigenous communities are among those most severely hit by gunfights over control of illegal activities (Pic EFE)

    Clashes between dissident Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) in the department of Arauca near the Venezuelan border have left at least 16 people dead, it was reported Monday.

  • Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 23:21 UTC

    UN Secretary-General arrives in Colombia for 5th anniversary of peace deal with FARC

    It is Guterres' first post-covid international field visit.(Photo UN Colombia)

    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived Tuesday in Bogotá to participate in the ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC Guerrillas.

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