Tag: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

• Friday, August 28th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  US Treasury sanctions Farc members operating from Switzerland

  

  The US has announced sanctions against four alleged members of Colombia's Farc rebel group, accusing them of drug trafficking and money laundering. The four men used a shop in Switzerland as a front for their activities, the US treasury department said. It says the Farc still use drugs to fund their “ruthless operation”.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2015 - 07:22 UTC

  FARC have requested to meet Francis and want the Church to join the peace process in Havana

  

  Representatives of Colombia's largest guerrilla movement have asked to meet Pope Francis in Cuba in September and have requested the Catholic Church name a permanent delegate to their peace negotiations with the government.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  FARC accused of deliberately spilling 200.000 gallons of oil risking water supplies

  

  Colombian authorities accused the FARC guerrillas Monday of forcing 19 oil tanker drivers to dump their cargo of crude on the ground, raising fears it could contaminate water supplies.Officials said FARC fighters stopped the tankers in a dawn raid as they transported their cargo across a remote area of the oil-producing region of Puerto Asis in the southwestern department of Putumayo.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 06:27 UTC

  Colombia and FARC agree to name a “Clarification of the Truth Committee”

  

  The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas said they plan to form a truth commission to investigate atrocities committed during the country's five-decade civil war. The agreement was announced on Thursday and will consist of an “independent and impartial” body as soon as a final peace deal is reached.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:43 UTC

  Santos orders resumption of bombing raids after FARC attack kills 10 soldiers

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered the resumption of bombing raids against FARC rebels after an attack he blamed on the group killed 10 soldiers, a move that will intensify combat after efforts to cool tensions.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 13:12 UTC

  Colombia's FARC reject submission to judicial processes as “common criminals”

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels cannot be submitted to the same judicial processes as “common criminals” under a possible peace deal, the Marxist group said on Friday. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made the comments after President Juan Manuel Santos said in an interview that the biggest hurdle to signing peace would be getting the group to agree to face justice after 50 years of war.

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Colombia and FARC agree to clear minefields; 11.000 people killed in 15 years

  

  Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace talks being held in Cuba.

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 17:41 UTC

  FARC vows to lay down arms and to reinvent itself as a political party

  

  Colombian FARC guerrillas on Saturday vowed to lay down their weapons and reinvent themselves as a political party, if the Colombian government follows through with the reforms under discussion in peace talks.

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 12:30 UTC

  FARC invites Colombia's newly-crowned Miss Universe to attend peace talks

  

  Rebels with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, on Saturday invited the newly-crowned Miss Universe to attend peace talks with the Colombian government.

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 06:55 UTC

  FARC Christmas message calls for end to military operations against them

  

  The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) sent a Christmas message to President Juan Manuel Santos and military officers demanding that all military operations against them be stopped. Wounded soldier to be released.