Tag: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

• Friday, June 24th 2016 - 08:28 UTC

  Colombia-FARC, “a historic event and exemplary implementation of peace”

  

  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended in Cuba the signing of a bilateral ceasefire agreement and laying down of weapons between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and described the historic event as an exemplary implementation of peace.

• Friday, June 24th 2016 - 04:12 UTC

  Colombia signs historic cease fire to end half a century armed conflict

  

  An agreement aimed at ending more than five decades of conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group was signed in Havana on Thursday at a ceremony presided over by Cuban head of state Raul Castro.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 08:09 UTC

  Colombia and FARC are to sign bilateral and definitive ceasefire 23 June in Havana

  

  Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached an agreement on a bilateral and definitive ceasefire that will pave the way for a referendum on a peace deal between the warring parties, a senior FARC negotiator said on Wednesday.

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 12:28 UTC

  Colombia's FARC guerrillas appeal to Pope Francis to help ensure the peace deal

  

  Colombia's FARC guerrilla organization called on Sunday for Pope Francis's support to prevent other armed groups from disrupting its efforts to seal a peace deal with the government. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the country's government say they are close to a deal to end a half-century conflict.

• Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:59 UTC

  Santos at the White House will ask for help to implement Colombia's peace accord

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has said he will ask President Obama to help implement a peace accord that his government expects to sign with the Farc rebel group next month. The two presidents will meet at the White House on Thursday.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 - 05:49 UTC

  FARC will enter politics once peace deal is signed, announces top guerrilla leader

  

  Colombia’s FARC rebel guerrillas will enter politics and seek alliances with other parties after it signs a peace deal with the government, its secretive leader said, despite rebel fears they may be targeted by right-wing armed groups..

• Thursday, January 21st 2016 - 07:52 UTC

  Colombia's peace deal to end war almost there; joint request to UN Security Council

  

  Colombia’s government and rebel guerrillas Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed to jointly ask the United Nations Security Council to help monitor and verify a future rebel disarmament, should the two sides reach a final peace deal to end their 50-year-old war, crossing a major stepping stone on the road to ending Latin America’s longest-running conflict.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 08:28 UTC

  Panama dismantles drug network linking FARC with Mexican cartel

  

  Panamanian officials announced the dismantling of a drug network linking fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman's Sinaloa cartel and a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, front.

• Thursday, September 24th 2015 - 08:27 UTC

  Colombia and FARC put a date to end Latam's deadliest conflict, 23 March 2016

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end Latin America's longest war within six months and sealed their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image.

• Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 04:51 UTC

  Maduro escalates conflict with Colombia as he looks to December's election

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro escalated his country's conflict with Colombia Friday by expanding the partial closure of their shared border to four new frontier towns. However most political analysts believe there is a huge premeditated interest in arising strong nationalistic feelings ahead of the December legislative elections.