Tag: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 07:29 UTC

  FARC dissidents challenge Ecuador with a new abduction: a couple of civilians

  

  A group of Colombian rebels active on the Ecuadorian border has sent a “proof of life” video of a kidnapped couple, the Ecuadorian government said, the second kidnapping by the group this month.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:56 UTC

  Ecuador and Colombia elite troops after Farc renegades who killed journalists and their driver

  

  Ecuador on Friday confirmed the deaths of two journalists and their driver who had been kidnapped by renegade Colombian rebels -- and quickly launched a retaliatory military operation in the area where they were snatched.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 06:08 UTC

  Bomb in Colombia city of Barranquilla kills seven officers, wounds 41

  

  At least seven police officers were killed and 41 others wounded on Saturday when alleged drug traffickers detonated a bomb at a station in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. The attack comes as President Juan Manuel Santos seeks to end the armed conflict that has wracked Colombia for 50 years. Much of the violence has been linked to drug trafficking.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2017 - 07:44 UTC

  Ex FARC leader will run for the presidency of Colombia in 2018

  

  Veteran Farc (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces) leader Rodrigo Londono — known as ‘Timochenko’ — will run for the presidency of Colombia next year, with the backing of former Farc rebels, the group’s new political party announced. However, he and other ex-commanders will likely face trials for human rights crimes and it is unclear how they would serve in office if sentenced.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2017 - 09:10 UTC

  FARC hands over weapons, prepares for the political phase of peace accord

  

  U.N. observers on Tuesday removed the last of more than 8,000 guns once carried by the guerrillas of Colombia’s largest rebel army and collected at 26 demobilization sites around the South American nation under a historic peace deal. The next phase of the peace deal is for the ex guerrillas to organize politically and run for seats in congressional elections.

• Wednesday, July 26th 2017 - 05:02 UTC

  Colombia's FARC will officially become a political party on September first

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels will officially transform into a political party on September 1, a major step in reintegrating the former guerillas into civilian life as part of a historic peace deal.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2017 - 07:22 UTC

  Colombian president grants amnesty to FARC 3.600 members, as part of the peace deal

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree granting amnesty to another 3,600 members of the Farc rebel group, which last year reached a peace deal with the government. It is the third and final amnesty decree signed by Santos.

• Wednesday, June 28th 2017 - 02:01 UTC

  UN says FARC rebels hand over weapons to Colombian authorities

  

  Leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year to end a half century of conflict, the United Nations said Monday.

• Monday, January 30th 2017 - 15:51 UTC

  FARC member accused of carrying out 300 abortions extradited from Spain to Colombia

  

  Spain has agreed to extradite to Colombia a former FARC rebel accused of carrying out 300 forced abortions on women fighters, some of them underage. Hector Arboleda Albeidis Buitrago, who has Spanish nationality, was detained in Madrid in December 2015.