Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) gave the Attorney General’s Office 45 days to provide information on 546 disappeared members of the armed forces, aiming to advance their identification and ensure victims’ rights to truth and justice.
The city of Cali in southwestern Colombia is strengthening security for the COP16 biodiversity summit with the arrival of “Gladiator” armored vehicles, over 4,000 police officers, 1,700 soldiers, and special forces to protect 13,000 attendees of the global event.
Colombia’s Armed Forces have initiated a large-scale military operation targeting FARC dissidents in the departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca. This operation comes in response to the EMC’s attack on Morales early Monday.
Colombia’s Armed Forces have retaken the Cañón de Micay in the department of Cauca from control of FARC dissidents. The military operation lasted several weeks.
After 40 days lost in the Amazon jungle, the Colombian Army confirmed that a search and rescue party have found alive the four missing children of a plane crash.
A retired army officer, Coronel Jaime Humberto Pinzón, handed over his “Medal For Distinguished Service” to the families of 53 young men who were executed as “false positives” while he commandeered the Tenth Infantry Battalion Atanasio Giradot.
In what would be a historic ruling by lawmakers, Colombia could scrap obligatory military service to be replaced by social peace-keeping work in rural areas for young men.
President Petro want Colombia’s security forces to be part of profound social transformation, including a new “army of peace.”
Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) heard testimonies on Tuesday by former military officials of their involvement in “false positives” in the Catatumbo region.
JEP’s indictment of 10 Colombian Army officers and one civilian for the extrajudicial killings of at least 120 civilians marks an important step towards truth, justice and non-repetition.
The U.S Army’s 82nd Airborne is exchanging strategic and tactical expertise with Colombian paratroopers as part of a six-day joint military operation.
In a move to restore law and order to the Colombian capital after days of unrest and vandalism, President Iván Duque and Mayor Enrique Peñalosa order a curfew starting 9:00 pm
Defense Minister, Guillermo Botero, handed-in his resignation after a motion of censure by Congress regarding an attack against FARC dissidents that killed 8 youngsters.
As part of the bicentenary celebrations of 1819, Colombia’s Armed Forces are reenacting the route taken by General Simón Bolívar.