A series of attacks in Colombia’s southern region by insurgent group FARC has left two policemen and five civilians injured, reported local media Sunday. Authorities have blamed Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, FARC, for three separate attacks in the southern departments of Cauca and Caqueta over the weekend. Guerrillas from FARC's 6th Front reportedly launched an assault with guns and explosives against a group of government soldiers in the municipality of Corinto, Cauca...

Colombians were petitioning to retrieve more than 800,000 hectares of land allegedly seized by leftist rebels, a key issue of the ongoing peace talks to end the five-decade-long armed conflict in the Southern American country. On the other hand, the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was pressing the government to tackle uneven land distribution between the rich and the poor, a key demand of the movement since its inception, El Tiempo daily reported Sunday. The issue was...

The Colombian government and the FARC rebel group are holding preliminary peace talks in Norway that are expected to set the stage for formal talks in Cuba next month. However, there are already signs of some disagreement, with the government saying it will not stop military operations against the rebels during the talks and FARC, of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, saying it is willing to discuss the issue any time. Negotiators from the two sides appeared together in public for...

The Colombian government has opened "exploratory talks" with its largest rebel aimed at ending a half-century insurgency, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. Santos' announcement in a brief televised address confirmed mounting rumors of talks, supposedly held in Cuba, between representatives of his government and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which is largely a peasant army. Santos offered no details of the talks, such as when they began, where they...

Colombia's government is criticizing a public event that was held in Venezuela's capital honoring the late leader of Colombia's largest rebel group. Colombia's Foreign Ministry expressed "indignation" over the tribute marking the fourth anniversary of rebel leader Manuel Marulanda's death. A group of radical leftists organized the event on Saturday in Caracas' 23 de Enero slum, where there is a bust of Marulanda. There was no immediate response from Venezuelan government officials. ...

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, (2002-2010) asked authorities to prevent rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from taking "refuge" in Venezuela, and follow instead the same path as ETA, the armed Basque separatist movement. Uribe expressed this opinion in a message posted on Twitter. The former Colombian Head of State highlighted France's cooperation with Spain in the fight against the Basque terrorist group ETA, and compared this policy...

WASHINGTON - Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington's expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money,...

Relatives bid farewell to former FARC hostages executed by FARC troops during a military raid (Photo: AFP) Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said that Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez acknowledged some years ago that he was aware of the presence of guerrilla members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Venezuela. Chávez would have told him that he would not order their capture because he (Chávez) wanted to "make a contribution to...

Several Venezuelan military officials are among the "international contacts" of Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry aka "Timochenko," the newly appointed leader of guerrilla organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to a report released by Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. The Colombian daily said in an article that in 2003 "Timochenko" reported on "agreements" between the FARC and the Venezuelan army to "provide...

There has been a growing push from Americans, particularly those along the Mexican border, for the federal government to label the Mexican drug cartels as terrorists. On Thursday, the State Department that the actions of the cartels are consistent with those considered to be “terrorism or insurgency.” “I do acknowledge that many of the facts on the ground, the things that are being done by those organizations, are consistent with what we would call either terrorism or...