As a war-hardened veteran of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, Roberto Méndez isn’t given to showing much emotion. But his eyes watered and his heart pounded in his chest when he heard the man who had led him in war talk about a future of peace. “It was very emotional hearing [Farc commander-in-chief] Timochenko and imagining what peace will […]
Top commanders from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are preparing to gather one final time in mid-September to ratify a peace accord reached this week with government negotiators and map out the group’s political strategy without weapons. “The historic importance of this event merits that the people of Colombia and the world see firsthand […]
Colombia’s government and leftist rebels said Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end Latin America’s last major guerrilla war, opening a new chapter for the country after more than a half-century of political bloodshed. Negotiators for the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said on Twitter that they would announce details […]
Watch as surgeons remove a live grenade from a Colombian soldier‘s face. The doctors performed the unusual surgery in a make-shift operating room in order to save the life of the 20 year old Colombian soldier and prevent any additional casualties in case the grenade detonated in the hospital. The grenade lodged in his cheek after […]
Carlos Ordonez has no idea what peace looks like since his town has been under constant threat from rebels for as long as he remembers. But the 25-year-old believes he’s about to find out now that Colombia’s largest rebel group has signed a cease-fire, demobilization and disarmament deal that will take effect once it and […]
The Colombian government and leftist Farc rebels have announced that they have reached a deal on a bilateral ceasefire that would be the last major step toward ending one of the world’s longest wars. Colombia’s conflict has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions since 1964. But a 15-year, US-backed military offensive thinned the rebels’ ranks […]
Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, 43, was convicted Wednesday in federal court of conspiracy to murder American government employees and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. He could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced in September. Georgescu was caught in 2014 brokering a deal that involved selling $17 million worth of military-grade weapons […]
Two Romanian businessmen and an Italian politician got caught trying to sell rocket launchers and AK-47s to Colombian terrorists. But one now claims he was really just helping the CIA. A wacky tale is playing out in a federal courtroom in New York City, where a Romanian security consultant is on trial for an illegal […]
The United States is providing military intelligence to fight paramilitary groups formed from the now-defunct AUC, according to President Juan Manuel Santos. “The most effective strategy against these organizations is intelligence,” President Juan Manuel Santos told Caracol Radio. The United States and Colombia had already announced the formation of a special task force to combat groups like […]
When Nicolás was 17 he was forced to kill eight of his friends. “It hurt to kill them, obviously,” Nicolás said, bowing his head as his voice started to tremble. “But an order is an order. I couldn’t think about that.” Nicolás had been with Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, […]
A B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, conducted a long-range training sortie to engage with South American military partners, April 1-2, 2016. During the course of the 27-hour non-stop mission, the (Boeing B-52 Stratofortress) aircrew trained with the Colombian Air Force before executing a flyover of the Feria Internacional del Aire y […]
Colombia has arrested an army general for his role a decade ago in the killing of civilians presented as guerrillas killed in combat, the highest-ranking military officer to ever be detained for such crimes. Gen Henry Torres, who currently holds an administrative position in the armed forces, turned himself in on Monday as soon as the […]
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