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FARC Seek An Immediate Bilateral Ceasefire in Colombian Peace Talks
September 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Representatives of Colombia's FARC rebel group said here Thursday they will immediately propose a bilateral ceasefire once peace talks get underway with the government. continue reading »
Colombia, FARC Rebels to Begin Peace Talks Next Month in Norway
September 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Representatives of the Colombian government and the Andean nation's largest guerrilla group, the FARC, will sit down next month in Oslo for talks aimed at ending their decades-long conflict. continue reading »
Grenade Attack in Northern Colombia Kills 1, Injures 27
September 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
One person was killed and 27 others were wounded in a grenade attack at an entertainment center in Barrancabermeja, a city in northeastern Colombia, police said Sunday. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Bomb Portion of Colombia’s Transandino Pipeline
August 26, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A new bomb attack destroyed a stretch of the Transandino pipeline in a rural area of the southwestern province of Nariño, authorities said Saturday. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Bomb Oil Depot in Colombia
August 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Leftist FARC guerrillas mounted bomb attacks Tuesday on an oil depot and an electric pylon in the northeastern province of Norte de Santander, Colombian authorities said. continue reading »
FARC Commander Involved in 2011 Terrorist Attack Killed
August 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A FARC commander suspected of being involved in a 2011 bombing that killed the highway patrol chief of the northwestern Colombian province of Antioquia has been killed, the Army News Agency reported. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Attack Police Checkpoint 1 Killed, 2 Wounded
August 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Suspected FARC guerrillas killed one police officer and wounded two others in an ambush in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, officials said Saturday. continue reading »
Colombian Rebel Believed to be Dead, Reappears in TV Interview
August 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The second-in-command of the FARC guerrilla group's Southern Bloc, believed to have been killed in a Colombian military airstrike in 2010, reappeared in an interview with Caracol Television. continue reading »
FARC Celebrate Colombia’s Independence By Attacking Police, Dynamiting Bridge
July 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
One police officer was killed and five others wounded Friday in an attack by leftist FARC rebels as Colombia celebrated 202 years of independence from Spain. continue reading »
Indians Put FARC Rebels on Trial in Colombia
July 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Four suspected members of Colombia's FARC rebel group went on trial Thursday before a court of the Nasa Indians in the embattled southwestern province of Cauca. continue reading »
Nearly 3,000 Colombians Displaced by Fighting
July 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Fighting between leftist FARC guerrillas and the Colombian security forces in the southwestern province of Cauca has driven more than 2,800 indigenous and mestizo people from their homes. continue reading »
Colombian Indians Boo President Santos as he Arrived in Cauca -“We Don’t Want Any More Army”
July 11, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Dozens of Colombian Indians greeted President Juan Manuel Santos with boos Wednesday in the southwestern province of Cauca and demanded he withdraw security forces from that violence-wracked region, continue reading »
FARC Attack Colombian Towns, Children Injured
July 8, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
At least five people, including four children, were wounded in attacks staged by FARC guerrillas this weekend on towns in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, army 28th Mobile Brigade commander Col. Martin Hernando Nieto told Efe. continue reading »
Turmoil in Colombia Leads to 4 Million Displaced, 400,000 Refugees
June 22, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Strife-torn Colombia is the scene of the worst humanitarian tragedy in Latin America with nearly 400,000 refugees and 4 million people internally displaced, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency. continue reading »
15 Colombian Soldiers to Stand Trial for Murdering 6 Civilians
June 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A former battalion commander and 14 of his men will be tried for murder in the deaths of six civilians falsely reported as rebels killed in combat, the Colombian Attorney General's Office said Thursday. continue reading »
Bomb Detonates, Killing Rebels Before They Could Attack Police Post
June 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two members of the FARC guerrilla group were killed when a bomb they were planning to launch at a police post accidentally detonated, Colombian police said Thursday. continue reading »
Mass Graves Found in Colombia, Believed to Contain “Disappeared” and FARC Remains
June 6, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Army troops found a FARC cemetery containing numerous graves in the southern province of Caqueta, Colombian armed forces commander Gen. Alejandro Navas said. continue reading »
Red Cross Confirms French Journalist’s Release After 33 Days with the FARC
May 31, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, announced Wednesday that French war correspondent Romeo Langlois was released by the FARC guerrillas, left the village of San Isidro with the humanitarian mission that took custody of him and is en route to Florencia, the capital of Colombia's southern Caqueta province. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Recruited Teens Against Their Will in Colombia
May 19, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia's FARC guerrillas pulled at least 13 teenagers out of boarding schools in the southern province of Putumayo and forced them to join the ranks of the insurgency, a prominent human rights activist told Efe on Friday. continue reading »
UPDATE: Colombian Government to Assist in Release of French Journalist
May 16, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Colombian government notified France that it will do what is necessary to enable leftist rebels' plan to release a French journalist who fell into guerrilla hands, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday. continue reading »
