Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)

The FARC's top political leader, “Ivan Marquez,” said Tuesday that he will not take office as senator unless one of the group's main ideologues is released from jail. Marquez, whose real name is Luciano Marin, told public television network Canal 1 that the recent arrest of “Ivan Santrich” on a US drug ...

Conservatives in Colombia are concerned that a feared former FARC commander could be rearming guerrilla forces after he abandoned the camp where he was leading the reintegration of demobilized guerrillas. “El Paisa” was the feared commander of the elite Teofilo Forero column before demobilizing ...

FARC, which formed in the 1960s as a left wing rebel group, demobilised thousands of fighters and surrendered their weapons to UN monitors under the terms of the deal. In return, the majority of FARC members were granted amnesty for crimes committed during the war. Five senate seats and five ...

The prime suspect in a drug trafficking case implicating the ideologue of Colombia's demobilized FARC guerrilla group has disappeared from the US prison information system, according to local media. Marlon Marin, the nephew of FARC leader “Ivan Marquez,” was arrested in Colombia last week on ...

With concerns mounting over the aftermath of Colombia's peace deal with the FARC rebels, Ecuador's government has announced it will no longer host negotiations between Colombia and the ELN guerrillas, the latest in a long line of setbacks for the attempted peace process. Government officials in ...

A FARC spokesman said in a statement posted to Twitter that Santrich's arrest was the "worst moment" of the peace process. Santrich was a member of FARC's main delegation at the negotiations that led to the peace deal being announced in Cuba. Under that agreement, former FARC combatants were ...

El Estrecho, Colombia - For more than 35 years, Blanca Ducuara Gomez lived in Colombia's mountains, patrolling the countryside as a member of the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). But today she lives in a FARC disarmament camp (also known as ...

Hundreds of former militia members of the FARC, the Colombian guerrilla group that demobilized 14,000 people last year, are suspected of controlling the border area after being blocked from a peace process. A dissident faction under the command of “Guacho,” an Ecuadorean citizen, allegedly controls ...

Colombia's Air Force has killed nine dissident militants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who did not accept the 2016 peace treaty, the Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry said in a written statement that an airstrike was carried out on the first and seventh fronts of the FARC ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Around 1,200 former members of Colombia's FARC rebel group did not demobilize under a peace deal and instead joined dissident factions ... FARC dissidents have joined crime gangs and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels on the list of the country's top security threats since ...

Human rights lawyer Sandra Rocha Kuan, who is of Colombian origin and now lives in Spain for her own personal safety, explained to the News Letter why Colombians rejected Farc at the polls. “We must remember that the Farc are responsible for a long war in which they have caused more than 100,000 ...

More than 80 human rights activists were killed in Colombia in 2017 despite a recent peace deal ending a decades-long civil war, the United Nations said on Friday. The conflict between the government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed about 200,000 people before FARC renounced ...

Less than two weeks before the election, FARC suspended its campaign over safety concerns. The FARC say they were targeted by orchestrated protests from critics of the peace accord and the Democratic Centre, a right-wing political party, but analysts also highlight that the group is "despised" by many in ...

There will be a clear majority from the right and centre that favour Colombia's macroeconomic stability and openness to foreign direct investment, including possible corporate tax cuts. Support for the FARC peace process is finely balanced with single-digit majorities supporting its implementation; a full ...

COLOMBIA-ELECTION-PARLIAMENTARY-CALARCA Luis Alberto Alban Urbano, aka Marcos Calarca, deputy candidate for the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) political party, arrives at a polling station in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, during parliamentary elections in Colombia on ...

Colombia's former FARC guerrilla group is making its electoral debut as a recognized political party in congressional elections on Sunday. The FARC became a political party in December 2016, after signing a peace deal with the Colombian government that ended 52 years of bloody civil conflict in which ...

FARC fought the Colombian government for more than over 50 years before signing a peace deal with the government in 2016. They gave up their weapons and turned into a political party, but their arrival in politics has proven far from simple. Al Jazeera's as Alessandro Rampietti reports from Tierralta, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia – The ex-rebel leader running for president of Colombia for the former leftist guerrillas of the FARC said Wednesday, February 28, their peace deal with the government is in serious danger. Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono, the leader of the political party launched by the former ...

Since 2012, Santos' government had been negotiating with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), an armed group that fought the Colombian state for over 50 years. In August 2016, negotiators announced a final agreement to end the conflict that had left 220,000 people dead and ...

Funding for the implementation of Colombia's peace process with the FARC guerrilla group has come under increased scrutiny recently, with a series of accusations and investigations into alleged corruption threatening to undermine not just the government's credibility but perhaps the historic peace deal ...

Bogota, Colombia - The arrest of a former top FARC commander last week has put an already fragile peace deal under further strain, but could help bolster the peace process in the long run, depending on how the charges are carried out, according to analysts. The deal between the left-wing rebel ...

On March 11, Colombians vote in what could be the biggest test of the country's democracy in decades. For the first time, the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will compete at the polls as a newly formed political party. No matter how it performs, the FARC, now known as ...