The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced they are ready to begin the process of release of 10 of their hostages, but insisted that the national government allow humanitarian activists to visit the imprisoned guerrillas in the country’s prisons. Through a statement, the FARC claimed to have all the logistics to implement the process […]
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From this point of view, this purpose promoters claim that sexual violence has been used by all armed groups in the country as an instrument of war, in order to intimidate, silence, expropriate, moving and dominate, which makes rape in a widespread throughout the country. Therefore, according to Ivan Cepeda, this transformation in the offense […]
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Four soldiers were killed in a confrontation that would have occurred in an indigenous reservation in the rural area of Puerto Guzmán. The Army maintains operations in the area to provide guerrillas with the front 32 of the FARC who participated in the violent clashes, as reported by El Tiempo. The soldiers killed were identified […]
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In a statement on their official website the illegal armed organization of the FARC announced Sunday its decision to add to the announced release of six hostages of the four remaining in his possession. The note, dated February 26 and also announced its gratitude to the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to accompany the process. […]
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he Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced they will release 10 hostages, four more than they had promised to release in December, while said resignation to the kidnapping of civilians, according to a statement released on Sunday its website . “Much has been said about the retention of people, men or women in the […]
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Valle del Cauca was again the scene of fighting between army and guerrillas. Palace Battalion troops fought from noon on Wednesday to FARC guerrillas in the village San Rafael, rural Tulúa. Two vehicles were abandoned on the road and the authorities tried to establish if they had explosives. Read Article
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Mariana de Jesus Rodriguez Tafur had 12 years in office Viotá (Cundinamarca). According to authorities, Inspector, 54 years old, was in contact with the guerrilla organization to give them information that could help to plan terrorist acts and extortion. Read Article
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When the tenth anniversary of the breaking of the peace process with FARC, Semana magazine interviewed Colombian president Andres Pastrana on the possibility of future dialogue between the government and the guerrilla group. Pastrana also referred to the Conservative Party, the former president Alvaro Uribe and the government of Juan Manuel Santos. Week: Do you […]
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Thanks to a transaction between the army and police were captured Boruga alias Sonia, who is presumed to be the extortionist mobile column Teofilo Forero of the Farc, directed by Ivan Velasquez Dario Saldarriaga, aka El Paisa. From this morning anticipates an operation to capture ‘El Paisa’ in the municipality of Puerto Rico, Caquetá, which […]
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During the past two days, the FARC has carried out two attacks on two separate towns in the departments of the Colombian Pacific. First, a bike loaded with 50 kilograms of explosives was detonated in front of the police station in the port of Tumaco (Nariño) which left 9 dead. A day later, a truck […]
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The Colombian authorities on Saturday defused another 14 explosive devices in various areas of the Southwest, the scene since last Wednesday of several attacks attributed to FARC guerrillas have left 19 dead and 78 wounded. La Policía Nacional informó en un comunicado del hallazgo y destrucción en la vereda de La Cohetera del municipio de […]
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Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón said that the government will analyze the information provided to a media demobilized by ensuring that the leader of the FARC, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, alias ‘Timoshenko’ is in Venezuela since 2005. Finch said that all information submitted by the former guerrillas is analyzed to determine if there is reason to […]
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Medellín. 453 antipersonnel mines, a grenade IM26, 50 plastic syringes, five great spell of double insurance and assault of two 5-gallon plastic timbo each with about 40 Kls of explosives, dangerous items were found and destroyed the creek by troops of the Group Machining Juan del Corral in the department of Antioquia. This abundant explosive […]
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The incident occurred on the route of the Los Pozos leads to San Vicente. At 5:30 Tuesday morning, the trucks (which were headed with crude to Gigante, Huila) would have been thrilled with bursts of rifle and the caravan could not proceed because the road would be undermined. “This is a tatuco that terrorists hid […]
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One of the older men and bloodthirsty of the FARC, and that the Defense Ministry offered two billion pesos reward in October, proved to be the cousin of Juan de Dios Usuga, drug for which the ‘ Urabeños’ north of the country paralyzed for 20 days, after his death. Luis Carlos Restrepo Usuga, alias ‘Isaiah […]
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During the Agreement for Prosperity is achieved in the city of Valledupar, and l Head of State revealed several emails from the FARC and the ELN to expose the land inventory of the two terrorist groups in various regions of the country and intends to legalize these properties. One of the mails of the FARC […]
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The guerrilla incursion occurred in the hills of Santa Ana in the municipality of El Tambo.About five o’clock on Friday afternoon about 100 FARC guerrillas attacked members of the National Police and attacked the aviation infrastructure in this area, since there is located a radar encentran Aerocivil and some communication towers .According to the police […]
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A small pipeline was blown up in an area of Colombia’s northeastern border with Venezuela, an attack attributed by the authorities of the FARC guerrillas, according to sources in the oil sector in the region. The attack occurred in the rural area of El Tarra, a town bordering department of Norte de Santander, and caused […]
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One policeman was killed during a FARC attack in Algeria (Cauca), where a phantom aircraft flying over the area to support the work of the authorities against the guerrillas of the FARC.The attack comes from the Wednesday morning in the village of El Mango. The police commander in Cauca, Col. Ricardo Alarcon, said the guerrilla […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, denied that the Government has begun a dialogue with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) aimed at reaching a peace agreement, as noted by former President Andres Pastrana, while urged stop the speculation. Read Article
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The border is Colombia with Ecuador and Venezuela are the two main strategic rear areas of the Colombian guerrilla groups operating in this country. The Ecuador Defense Minister Javier Ponce, admitted today in the central Colombian town of Villa de Leyva’s presence “occasional” from FARC rebels in Ecuadorian territory. “We have always recognized an intermittent […]
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This was announced by the commander of the Sixth Brigade, Colonel Martin Sandoval. Clashes occur between men of the Task Force South of Tolima and 21 against the FARC, the main security ring Central Block of the guerrilla group. The official said the fighting taking place in Rioblanco rural sector, sector high subversive presence, leaving […]
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As the New Year approaches, FARC has released 3 names of the 6 hostages that they will soon release. According to latribuna.hn, they are part of 11 military and police officials who have been held hostage for 12 years. FARC does not want the government to make any attempts to find and rescue these individuals. […]
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Ecuadorian President also said that relations with Colombia are at their best. Ecuador employs about 10,000 uniformed personnel to guard the boundary with Colombia, where he faces a “most serious problem” of security, said Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Saturday. On the edge with Colombia is “the most serious security problem facing the country, is […]
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Ecuadorian authorities arrested five suspected guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in a border area between the two countries. The commander of the Navy of Colombia, Roberto Garcia, said the operation led to the arrest of five subjects with “200 kilos of explosives, 25 improvised explosive devices, radios, all black uniforms and […]
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A scandal Millionaire bypass public funds affects the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. The Argentine writer Martin Caparros has interviewed the manager, right hand of Hebe de Bonafini and main accused in the case. Read Article
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A manual with instructions for “the management of hostages” was found by Colombian security forces near the place where FARC rebels killed four soldiers who were holding hostages, regional police said Monday. The booklet, which included aid illustrated, was part of a series of documents prepared by teaching the insurgent group, told Efe Colonel Carlos […]
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Strong harassment occurred at about 7:00 am in the municipality of Inza, east of the Cauca, where the FARC released ‘tatucos’ against the population. Explosive ordnance fired at the police station, City Hall and a commercial sector of town, caused no injuries but damage. Read Article
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A soldier and a civilian were seriously injured.The accident occurred after an explosive device detonated in the center of that municipality. When the people of Corinth celebrated the day of the candles, they were surprised by a loud explosion that besides injuring a soldier and a woman, leaving destruction in several homes. Read Article
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Charry got deported from Mexico after spending eleven years in prison for drug trafficking.This man became famous in the DMZ of the government of Andrés Pastrana to be the doctor of FARC, but also by being the liaison with Amado Carrillo ‘lord of heaven’, one of the most powerful drug traffickers on the continent. Read […]
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Tanja Nijmeijer on Wednesday granted an interview with Dutch public television. He said that illegal armed group remains strong despite the death last November of its top leader, Alfonso Cano. “The FARC go ahead without ‘Cano’, there have been many military actions after his death, which is a sign that we go ahead and that […]
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A tense situation occurs in the morning on Tuesday in the municipality of Morales, department of Cauca. The FARC attacked, from 6:15 am, police station with gunfire and tatucos. So far the balance is a soldier wounded, the day of the great mobilization in the country against kidnapping and violence by illegal armed groups. Read […]
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Hundreds of residents of the canton Tulcan Carchi province, made this morning, Friday, a dry run for the release of four Ecuadorians presumed to be in the hands of Colombian guerrillas.Most were kidnapped in the area of Carchi Marino border with Colombia, which until 3600 the record held since 1994. Read Article —————————————————— DO YOU […]
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Local police say served as an ideologue of the rebel front.The Bishop Pedro Pablo Reinoso Marin was arrested at the Minor Seminary of Manizales in joint action with the Attorney General, said Col. Rafael Antonio Mesa, acting commander of the Police in Caldas department which is the capital city. Read Article
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The clashes occurred Sunday night in the canyon country of Tetuan, the township area of San Antonio (South of Tolima). The Sixth Brigade, based in Ibague, reported that the security lent subversive alias ‘Marlon’, leader of the front 21 and were surprised when they planned to install epxlosivos to attack the security forces. Read Article
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The Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, told RCN Radio the Night to his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, privately described as “a barbaric act” the killing of four hostages by the FARC. In dialogue with RCN Radio, Maria Angela Holguin said that the meeting of Hugo Chavez and Juan Manuel Santos became clear the commitment […]
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Another of the soldiers was injured after falling into a minefield. The incident occurred in the village of La Onda, rural zone of Tumaco (Nariño). The fact was attributed to Daniel Aldana mobile column of the FARC, which operates in the Pacific region of Nariño, although there are also regional paramilitary groups and drug traffickers. […]
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Florence. Troops from Mobile Brigade No. 13, assigned to the Sixth Division, located 36 land mines planted around coca crops in an area of 280 meters, which avoided the eradication or destruction of illicit crops. The installation of explosive ordnance irrational threatened the life of peasants who travel around the village of the municipality Bold […]
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Thanks to the intelligence work of the National Army troops of the Sixth Brigade in coordination with the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office, captured five individuals who were part of the network of the gang 21 of the FARC in the department Tolima. The military action took place simultaneously in the town of […]
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Colombian Marxist rebels plotted to sell uranium to Venezuela in the belief that they would pass it on to “friends from distant lands”, according to leaked emails. The emails were recovered from the computer of Raul Reyes, a former commander with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) who was killed by the country’s army […]
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Colombia’s army says it has shut down the main radio station operated by the Farc rebels, after 15 years on air. Troops captured transmitters and other broadcast equipment when they overran a guerrilla camp in the Meta region. Read Article
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In his first message since taking the helm of Latin America’s longest-fighting rebels, new FARC chief Timoleon Jimenez, alias Timochenko, Sunday warned Colombia’s president: “we all have to die, (Juan Manuel) Santos, every one of us.” “Nobody is going to escape that fact… Some for one cause, and others for another,” Timochenko said in a […]
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A total of 2962 children, who were part of illegal armed groups in Colombia, were demobilized in the last nine years, revealed today the Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. According to figures from the Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized (PADH) of the Government, in these 9 years, a total of 24,303 demobilized […]
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Under the motto “just want to be free ‘, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, presented the new campaign to prevent recruitment of children and adolescents by illegal armed groups. A study by the Program of Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized with support from the International Organization for Migration, the 24,303 members of illegal armed groups demobilized […]
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Jose Carvajal Patiño, who had at least thirteen years in the Farc and is currently serving as the second leader of the front ‘Antonio Nariño’, which has influence in Bogotá and surrounding areas. Patiño Carvajal, known by the alias of ‘Alda’, is linked in the investigations being conducted by the attacks against Blockbuster video store […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has warned the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, alias ‘Timoleon Jimenez’ or ‘Timoshenko’, which will suffer the same fate as his predecessor, Guillermo León Saenz, ‘Alfonso Cano’. “I tell the new ‘number one’ of the FARC soon or it will […]
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Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, alias “Timochenko,” the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), belongs to the “hardliners” of the organization. According to the statement that the organization spread through the Bolivarian Press Agency (ABP), the new commander-up is required to continue “the strategic plan to the seizure of power to the people.” […]
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So said Wednesday the Armed Forces commander, General Alejandro Navas.The officer warned that if the new leader of the FARC is in the territory of another country, would go to diplomatic mechanisms to seek his arrest. “If you are in another country and we had knowledge through military intelligence, would come to my superior officer, […]
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The President Juan Manuel Santos, highlighted the results achieved by the institution in the fight against the guerrillas, criminal gangs and crime in the past 15 months. According to the president, from the August 7 last year the police have captured 1,247 fighters in total, and stressed that police operations have been neutralized as an […]
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The death of alias “Alfonso Cano” has been described as the heaviest blow they have received the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). However, experts on the subject Colombian rule out that the attack was the final blow on the guerrilla group in the midst of great uncertainty, struggle to be reconfigured.Indeed, yesterday cleared the […]
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BBC reported that Defense Minister of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed in the early hours of Saturday at a news conference in Bogota the death of Alfonso Cano, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to Finch, the guerrilla leader of 63 years died after a bombing in a mountainous region […]
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Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in New York City convicted a top international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, yesterday for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) — a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia. The trial revealed that the weapons were to […]
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A camp was destroyed and two narco-terrorists suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were arrested as the result of two clashes between units of the Panamanian National Border Service (Senafront) and Colombian irregulars. The clashes took place near the Tuira River in the jungle community of Madugandí, in the province […]
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The military have the activation of a pump house by FARC guerrillas in Puerto Toledo area known as the municipality of Puerto Rico (Meta). The fact he left ten people injured. Troops of the Omega Joint Task Force attributed this to the Front 43 of FARC who have activated an explosive device in a dwelling […]
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There are two soldiers are missing in rural area of Caldono. The incident occurred at 11:15 am on Friday, when the troops landed at the village of La Palma in Caldono, to register a FARC camp that was bombed. According to General Miguel Ernesto Perez Guarnizo, commander of the Third Army Division, the troops entered […]
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The presidents of six public higher education institutions in Antioquia were threatened in a statement allegedly made by the FARC, in which the declared military targets continue working and teaching against the various student assemblies to protest against the reform education. Read Article
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Colombia Police seized 9 tons of marijuana in the department of Cauca (southwest), which he said belonged to the Sunday Marxist FARC guerrillas and were to be transported to Central America. The drug was found on Saturday in a house in a rural area of Corinth (Cauca) and have a black market value of $ […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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The FARC intended to attack police stations located in areas of high Arborist, Candelaria and Sanfrancisco.As a result of the actions being undertaken by the authorities in the Colombian capital, and that is part of “Operation Colombia” in which they were captured late on three members of the Mobile Column of FARC Ismael Ayala, police […]
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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14 guerrillas of the FARC’s Front 33 were killed in fighting with members of the police in Norte de Santander.T he incident took place in the village Luis Vero rural Sardinata Township. Read Article
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FARC SUSPECTED IN BOMBING Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers who were traveling in a vehicle to administrative work. In Palo, rural area of Caloto (Cauca), killed seven soldiers were traveling in a vehicle in administrative work, as was stated by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón.”Here in the department of […]
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The revelation that the Argentine Facundo Molars Schoenfeld has become one of the ideologists of the FARC is the tip of the ball of the presence of more foreigners in the ranks of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia. Colombian Police confirmed that molars, 35 and known by the alias “Camilo Argentina ‘, amounted dirigenciales […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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In carrying out offensive operations in Antioquia, Meta, and Caldas, Army troops were uncovered three caches clandestine weapons, explosives and materials for the manufacture of alkaloids belonging to the Farc criminal gangs and drug trafficking.Initially, in the village gardens, city of San Francisco, Antioquia, units Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 4 ‘Juan del Corral’, located a […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]
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Factions of the FARC launched on Sunday morning five simultaneous attacks on towns in the department of Cauca, and stop time, a soldier dead, officials said. The attacks occurred in Silvia, Suárez, Siberia, and Caldono Jambaló he told reporters, Colonel Carlos Rodriguez, police chief of that department. Read Article
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Escalating guerrilla terrorist had planned to perpetrate against oil and electricity infrastructure in Putumayo was unveiled by the Army, following the seizure of 30 cylinders filled with explosives and several launchers. In statements provided by the commander of Battalion No. 9 Special Energy based in La Hormiga, Colonel Leonardo Vargas Villegas, he realizes that the […]
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The FARC are not strengthened, but changed his strategy. So says a study by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, an observatory of the armed conflict in Colombia. In the report ‘The new reality of the FARC, “the NGO an assessment of the rebel group led by Alfonso Cano. And it ensures that the recent attacks […]
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The attack by suspected members of the front 29 of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) occurred on the outskirts of the seaport of Tumaco in Nariño, which borders Ecuador.Read Article
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The National Police who dealt crushing blow to the structures of the Southern Bloc of the FARC, captured in downtown Neiva, Cesar Polanco Cerquera, aka “Polo” or “Polanía.” The report said according to research by an interdisciplinary team of the institution, led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN), this individual acted as […]
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According to hoy.com.ec, FARC is distributing brochures in the neighborhood Kennedy southwest of Bogota, on how to construct in twelve steps bombs. The phamplets show how to prepare, install, and activate the explosive devices. Residents in this populous area are concerned that many of the pamphlets will end up in the hands of minors. Read […]
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According to ElComercio.com a young Ecuadorian was willed and an Ecuadorian soldier wounded during a confrontation between the Ecuadorian military and a group of FARC guerillas located on the Colombian side of the San Miguel River. Officials say the confrontation occurred last Thursday, August 11th while a military patrol was performing control operations along the […]
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•50 rural families, 170 people, have had to leave Pradera, Valle del Cauca, Colombia due to military conflict with FARC in the area. •El Espectador reveals that three soldiers have died and 3 others were injured in a mine field. •The families still do not know when they will be able to return to their […]
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The explosion of a bomb package in a commercial establishment in Campamento, Antioquia, Colombia was attributed to FARC’s front 36. RCN La Radio reports that the explosive device, disguised as a package of panela, left 1 person dead and 3 injured, and among them were members of the army. Read Article
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•Miguel Ángel Ariñez, also known as the Doctor of FARC, was captured in Cúcuta, Colombia after returning from Venezuela. •Ariñez, according to EFE, was responsible for the health of FARC’s central command and has information and connections to upper members of the group. •He spent years hiding in Venezuela and was forced to return to […]
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•In the south of Colombia, in the Caquetá department, FARC guerillas forced 6 truck drivers to exit and burn their own tank trucks carrying crude oil while they were on the highway en route to the Huila department. •And.es reports that the guerillas were members of FARC’s Teófilo Forero, which acts in Caquetá and southern […]
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•In Cúcuta, Colombia, there will be a summit between military and police forces of Colombia and Venezuela in order to discuss actions against guerilla groups such as FARC and the ELN. •The main point will be better control of the border area, and the summit will serve to carry out the anti-drug agreement signed April […]
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•FARC and the ELN have encampments in Venezuela according to Edgar Cely, Commander of the Colombian Armed Forces. •Voanews.com reports that during the presidency of Uribe, President Chávez of Venezuela halted diplomatic relations with Colombia in July of last year when guerilla leaders were found in Venezuela. •Current Colombian President Santos and President Chávez have […]
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On Sunday in Arauquita, Arauca, Colombia, FARC released 5 workers from the OXY oil company who were kidnapped on Friday near the Venezuelan border according to larepublica.pe. There have been recent kidnappings of oil workers such as the kidnapping of the 4 Chinese workers who still have not been located. Read Article
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Protest singer and member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Julian Conrado, formally requested asylum in Venezuela almost two months after Venezuelan authorities arrested him there with the declared intention of extraditing him to Colombia. Read Article
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•Last night, 10 armed men kidnapped the mayor of Almaguer, Cauca, Colombia, Milton Fabián Hurtado. •Semana reports that the two men with him were released after they captured the mayor at an intersection. •It is unknown which group to which the kidnappers belong, but FARC and the ELN have been known to have a presence […]
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•EFE reports that the U.S. department of state has renewed the warning made in November 2010 to U.S. citizens traveling to Colombia. •The dangers of narcotics traffickers in the large cities and rural areas are reasons given for the warning. •The American Embassy in Bogotá has not reported any specific threats to U.S. citizens in […]
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•In the south of Colombia, FARC exploded a donkey bomb, and according to feeds.univision.com, no human injuries or deaths resulted from the explosion. •FARC was attempting to move the donkey, fitted with 40 kilos of explosives, to the center of the hamlet Guayabal in Caquetá. •This action demonstrates FARC’s desperation in the face of the […]
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•This morning, FARC launched an attack using explosives against a Highway Police vehicle patrolling the Pan-American road and left 3 officers injured. •Semana.com reports that another act of violence occurred in Santander de Quilichao in which an explosive device was activated outside of an establishment and left 20 surrounding houses with damages to roofs and […]
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•The Colombian military has deactivated a motorcycle bomb that was reportedly installed by FARC in a road between Cauca and Valle del Cauca in southeast Colombia. •The road is functioning normally and is being patrolled by the Police and Army as revealed by EFE. •During an operation in which the military freed two country people, […]
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According to Colombian President Santos, FARC only kidnapped the 2 political figures Fernando Satizábal and Dagoberto Ojeda in the south of Nariño per noticierostelevisa.esmas.com. Bandits temporarily retained the other 18. Santos states that the situation is still under investigation. Read Article
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•FARC guerilla alias Marcolino was sentenced to 43 years of prison for the massacre of at least 4 indigenous people in 2009. •El-nacional.com reports that Omar Rolando Herrera led members of FARC to murder four individuals that have been fully identified in the Tortugaña-Telembí reservation in Nariño, Colombia bordered by Ecuador. •FARC admitted to the […]
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•A joint attack between different groups of the Colombian armed forces secured the capture of 8 members of FARC’s front 25 including two important members of the front in Granada, Huila, Colombia. •As a result of the attack, 2 guerillas died, and the injured were transferred to hospitals for medical attention. •Among the captured were […]
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•At 1:30 a.m. today, 18 of 20 victims kidnapped on Tuesday were released and found near a beach near Trujillo in Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia. •The victims were kidnapped by 8 armed men Tuesday afternoon, and the group with which they are affiliated remains unknown. •The two other victims are Ferney Satizábal, a candidate for mayor […]
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•Military Commander Admiral Édgar Cely has defended the military’s acts of public order in Cauca, Colombia in response to requests for the resignation of Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera and other top members of the military. •According to RCN Radio, these requests have come from members of the civil society. •Cely maintained that FARC and […]
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•The Cauca department in Colombia has experienced more violence than usual due to FARC’s relocation to the Cordillera Central in Colombia. •The indigenous people of the area are suffering the consequences and are being controlled by FARC’s guerillas according to Rodrigo Rojas, a representative of Pax Cristhi per RCN Radio. •Rojas states that the indigenous […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the director of National Police in Colombia announced today, July 5th, that the March 2008 bombing of the FARC camp in Ecuador was a state decision and therefore, the officials found to stand trial in Ecuador should not be held accountable. General Oscar Naranjo along with the Colombian government do not recognize […]
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•Despite rumors that FARC head member Alfonso Cano had been captured, he has escaped the Colombian military for the third time. •RCN Radio reports that during an operation performed by the Colombian military last Wednesday, Alfonso Cano fled the encampment between the Cauca and Huila departments. •The military had received information about the top FARC […]
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•The video from El Espectador shows minors being trained by alias Pipón of FARC’s front 57. •A member of the National Police while under cover recorded the video. •The video shows Pipón training the young people between 14-17 years old how to use firearms and other kinds of combat training. •Around 4,000 like cases of […]
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The Colombian Attorney General, Viviane Morales, is to investigate the accusations that the U.S. and Colombia made secret negotiations to secure the release of Ingrid Betancourt and the other hostages including 3 American citizens. The official story is that the Colombian military successfully carried out Operación Jaque which involved deceiving the 2 FARC guerillas holding […]
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According to ElComercio.com the two FARC guerrillas arrested in Quito were transferred to the headquarters of the narcotics police in Quito and are awaiting a deportation hearing Tuesday June 28th. Officials say this morning a Colombian DAS plane arrived to transport the guerrillas to Colombia. One of the suspects, Fabio R. is the second in […]
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