COLOMBIA CONFLICT
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Crime & Justice
Colombia’s president suspends ceasefire with Clan del Golfo
Bogotá, Mar 19 (EFE).- Colombia’s president on Sunday suspended a bilateral ceasefire with the country’s largest criminal group Clan del…
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Politics
6 Colombian soldiers dead, 7 missing in attack by FARC dissident group
Bogota, Dec 6 (EFE).- An attack staged by dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group on…
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Conflicts & War
Remote Colombian communities live in fear of paramilitary groups
By Irene Escudero Pie de Pató, Colombia, Dec 1 (EFE).- In the communities on the banks of the Baudó river,…
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Conflicts & War
Colombia busts extortion ring linked to FARC renegades
Bogota, Nov 22 (EFE).- The Colombian Attorney General’s office announced Tuesday the arrest of five people connected to a dissident…
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Conflicts & War
Colombian indigenous community struggling to recover from triple murder
By Irene Escudero Inda Sabaleta, Colombia, Aug 17 (EFE).- Juan Orlando Moreano would have turned 35 last Thursday. But despite…
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Conflicts & War
Colombia’s Truth Commission pays tribute to conflict victims
By Irene Escudero Bogota, Jun 29 (EFE).- Some of the more than 30,000 people who testified before Colombia’s Truth Commission…
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Conflicts & War
The fight over land: Colombia’s perpetual conflict
By Irene Escudero Arquia, Colombia, May 17 (EFE).- Arquia, a Tule indigenous “resguardo” on Colombia’s border with Panama, is one…
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Conflicts & War
Colombian mothers of false positive victims demand “real justice”
Soacha, Colombia, May 10 (EFE).- Mothers and other relatives of young people murdered by the Colombian army as so-called “false…
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Conflicts & War
Pain of Colombia’s Bojaya massacre still lingers on 20th anniversary
By Ricardo Maldonado Rozo Bojaya, Colombia, May 2 (EFE).- Survivors and family members of the victims of a 2002 church…
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Conflicts & War
At least 6 FARC dissidents killed in Colombia military operation
Bogota, Apr 30 (EFE).- At least six suspected dissident FARC rebels were killed in a military operation in the eastern…
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