Noticias

Powerful interventions by feminist groups won unprecedented and far-reaching recognition of women’s rights in the agreement between government and FARC rebels, which ended 50 years of conflict. Maria Eugenia Cruz Alarcón explains why she will continue to defend Colombia’s peace accord – at all costs.

When they called on me to testify at the peace talks in Havana I had to keep it from my family. It was a ‘state secret’, because Colombia is so polarized; there are many who want the war to continue and so speaking out as a victim is risky. Leer más...

The government of Colombia has rejected the appointment of a top ELN commander as a delegate in peace talks and has ordered his capture — a move that likely spells the end of the negotiations with the guerilla group, which is already ramping up its criminal activities.

On November 20, Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Relations confirmed that earlier in the month it had verbally requested, on behalf of the administration of President Iván Duque, that the Cuban government act on an Interpol red notice and capture National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) commander Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista, alias “Gabino.”  Leer más...