Colombia’s FARC political party, formed after the guerilla group with the same acronym was disbanded, has announced that it is is changing its name to “Comunes,” or “Commons” in English. “I want to ...
Even before the signing of the 2016 peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government, it was clear that not all of the former guerillas would welcome and join the process. By mid-2016, ...
The Farc have been fighting one of the longest-running insurgencies in the world Following the signing of a revised peace agreement between Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed ...
More than 10 million people are victims of the harshest acts of violence in Colombia's six decades of armed conflict.
Colombia is at a crossroads. Several paths lay before it. One sees the ex-FARC mafia consigned to the dustbin of history in a short period of time. However, there are other, less appetizing scenarios.
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The US State Department has removed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the acronym the FARC, from its terrorism blacklist, and listed two dissident groups led by former FARC ...
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Former FARC hostages arrive in Villavicencio, Colombia on April 2, 2012, ...
Yudy Tovar would like to believe that hope is the last thing ever lost. But Tovar, who was forcibly recruited and sexually abused as a teenager by Colombia's now-disbanded FARC rebels, says the ...
A former top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has issued a new call to arms, upending the country’s peace agreement. By Alexander L. Fattal Mr. Fattal is an anthropologist whose ...