COLOMBIA CONFLICT
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Conflicts & War
Reporters put lives on the line to keep people informed in northeast Colombia
By Jorge Gil Angel Saravena, Colombia, Mar 3 (EFE).- Radio broadcasters in the northeastern Colombian department of Arauca, the scene…
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Conflicts & War
Violence persists in Colombia’s Putumayo 5 years after peace deal
By Laia Mataix Gomez Mocoa, Colombia, Mar 2 (EFE).- Violence in the Colombian municipality of Putumayo continues to claim the…
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Saravena, a Colombian rural area mired in conflict
By Jorge Gil Angel Saravena, Colombia, Feb 24 (EFE).- Broken glass, destroyed buildings and makeshift barricades line the streets in…
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Conflicts & War
8 Injured at start of Colombian rebels’ ‘armed strike’
Bogota, Feb 23 (EFE).- A so-called “armed strike” by Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group shut down transportation in…
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Environment
Deforestation in Colombia increased after 2016 peace accord
Washington, Feb 21 (EFE).- Deforestation in Colombia has increased since the peace agreement between the government and the guerrilla movement…
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Conflicts & War
“They were recruiting children”: people displaced by guerrilla war speak out
Puerto Carreño, Colombia, Jan 28 (EFE).- Tania and her two daughters are one of the 277 families who were forced…
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Fighting between guerrilla groups resurges in Colombia
Bogota, Jan 3 (EFE).- Fighting between two guerrilla groups for territorial control in the Colombian province of Arauca, bordering on…
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Victims, rebels walk through Colombia canal used to dump thousands of corpses
By Ricardo Maldonado Rozo Canal de Dique, Colombia, Nov 29 (EFE).- Victims and perpetrators, accompanied by the Colombian Truth Commission,…
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Conflicts & War
Project spotlights student victims of Colombia’s conflict
Cali, Colombia, Sep 2 (EFE).- Hanging from a clothes line on a hilltop in this southeastern metrpolis are dozens of…
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Thousands of displaced indigenous Colombians to return to hometowns
Bogota, Aug 6 (EFE).- More than 1,500 indigenous people of Colombia’s northern Cordoba department, who had been forcibly displaced due…
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