The country’s pre-election landscape is heating up with coalitions and alliances. Several candidates maintain their lead with voting intention, but with four months to go, the stakes remain high.
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has begun a visit to Colombia to urge the Marxist ELN guerrilla to resume their cease-fire and boost confidence in the current peace process with FARC.
The National Museum presents an exhibition on the importance of memory for reconciliation and told through the stories of eight indigenous groups.
A final editorial of a year that consolidated a difficult peace process with FARC and faced legal hurdles in the Congress.
Criminal groups are challenging Colombia’s crop-substitution program and coca farmers claim not enough incentives are being offered for legal alternatives.
After 23 years of broadcasting to persons held captive, journalist Herbin Hoyos has no intention of ending his historic program, known globally as ‘Voices of the Kidnapped.’
In an crowded presidential electoral race, the future of Colombia’s peace can’t be muddied by populist rhetoric. Too much is at stake, including food security and prosperity for rural communities.
The post-conflict may bring peace to the countryside, but the scars of Colombia’s war-ravaged landscape could take much longer to heal.
In his final address to the United Nations, President Santos reminded world leaders of his country’s sacrifice in the war on drugs and need for a peaceful resolution in Venezuela.
Pope Francis arrived Wednesday afternoon in Colombia’s capital as part of a five-day trip to spread a message of hope and reconciliation as the country ends 53-years of conflict with the peace agreement with FARC.
Leyner Palacios has been nominated to one of the most prestigious humanitarian awards. The survivor of the 2002 Bojaya? massacre started a grass roots campaign to recognize the rights of victims.
The 2018 Presidential elections will in part be decided by voters’ acceptance or rejection of the accord reached with FARC. The implementation process remains a difficult task ahead.
Santos met with FARC’s “Timochenko” Tuesday in the town of Mesetas to celebrate the end of the guerrilla as a fighting force and successful handover of weapons.
As the demobilization of FARC reaches an historic conclusion, on Tuesday, in a ceremony in Mesetas (Meta), the former guerrilla launch themselves as a political party.
A week after the terrorist attack in the Andino shopping mall in which three women were killed, Colombia’s Attorney General confirmed Saturday the capture of eight suspects.
Dutch photojournalist Niels Van Iperen on assignment for The City Paper sends this report from the FARC’s demobilization camp in Icononzo, Tolima.