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Colombia’s largest criminal group accepts Petro’s offer to broker peace deal
Colombia’s largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations, but the next ...
Colombia’s president suspends ceasefire after attack on Indigenous community
Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended a ceasefire with Estado Mayor Central after they attacked an Indigenous community.The government announced the ...
Colombia’s Petro proposes regional ceasefire to ELN guerillas-
By AFP COLOMBIA: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro urged a guerrilla group on Saturday to agree to a regional ceasefire aimed ...
Colombia’s Petro fires police chief who claims he used exorcisms to catch fugitives
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives.Neither ...
Militants kill 9 soldiers in attack on Colombia’s military
Militants in Colombia killed at least nine soldiers and injured another nine in an attack early Wednesday on a military ...
Colombia’s army recruits women for first time in over 2 decades
Dressed in camouflage, Zulma Stefania Perez reflected on her first weeks of training at a military base in the capital ...
Colombia’s Arhuacos strive for harmony with Mother Nature
The Arhuaco people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have fended off incursions by Capuchin missionaries and by the ...
Colombia’s first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro swears in-
By AFP BOGOTA: Ex-guerrilla and former mayor Gustavo Petro will be sworn in Sunday as Colombia’s first-ever leftist president, with ...
Environmental activist Francia Marquez elected Colombia’s first Black vice president-
By Associated Press BOGOTA: As Colombia’s voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new ...
Ex-rebel fighter Gustavo Petro becomes Colombia’s first leftist president-
By Associated Press COLOMBIA: Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after former rebel Gustavo Petro ...