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Colombia’s armed groups turn TikTok and Facebook into recruiting grounds for children

By The City Paper Staff -

Colombia’s long-running conflict has found a new recruiting ground, one that fits inside a child’s pocket. Human Rights Watch has warned that illegal armed groups are increasingly using TikTok, Facebook and other social-media platforms to recruit children, combining propaganda, promises of money and status, coded language and carefully chosen emojis to draw minors toward illegal […]

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Colombia’s De la Espriella announces military strike against FARC dissidents in Guaviare

By The City Paper Staff -

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced Thursday that the country’s Armed Forces have carried out a military strike against the FARC dissident faction commanded by alias Calarcá in the southern department of Guaviare. According to initial reports, eight members of the criminal armed group have been killed. De la Espriella said the operation, code-named […]

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Colombia’s Armed Forces confirm over 50 dead in FARC dissident clashes in Guaviare

By The City Paper Staff -

Colombia’s Armed Forces and regional authorities are struggling to verify the full scale of a bloody confrontation between rival FARC dissident factions in the remote southeastern department of Guaviare after clashes reportedly left more than 50 combatants dead. The fighting, described by officials as one of the deadliest episodes this year involving former Revolutionary Armed […]

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Lines on Stone: The Millennial Rock Art of the La Lindosa Range

By Richard Emblin -

At the eastern fringes of the Andes, where the Orinoco River Basin unfurls in an ondulating canvas of green, punctuated by majestic rivers and sandstone mesas, lies one of the world’s most astonishing open-air galleries of human existence. The Serranía de La Lindosa, in the department of Guaviare, is a monumental tableau carved by nature […]

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Colombia Confirms 15 Minors Killed in Army Bombings Against FARC Dissidents

By The City Paper Staff -

The Colombian government of President Gustavo Petro has acknowledged that at least 15 minors recruited by illegal armed groups were killed in four military operations carried out between August and November, after a report by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine revealed a higher number of child casualties than initially disclosed by the Defence Ministry. […]

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Mass Grave in Guaviare Confirms Execution of Church Group by FARC Dissidents

By The City Paper Staff -

Colombian authorities have uncovered a mass grave in Guaviare containing the bodies of eight evangelical church members abducted in April. Prosecutors say FARC dissidents executed the victims for being from Arauca. The massacre, Colombia’s deadliest of 2025, underscores rising violence and the failure of state presence in remote regions.

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