The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed in a report Wednesday that Colombia produced record yields of cocaine in 2017, a major blow to joint U.S.-Colombian investment in dissuading peasants from harvesting coca leaf and an outcome some conservatives predicted as inevitable to peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Colombia will see its top two presidential candidates – law-and-order conservative Iván Duque and leftist former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro – move on to a runoff vote after Duque won Sunday’s election with 39.14 percent of the vote.
Colombia is preparing to vote to replace President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday, in an election with significant implications for both the United States and the region as a whole.
President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador abruptly announced in an interview Wednesday that his country would cease participating in peace talks between Colombia and the communist guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN).
A top peace negotiator for the Colombian terrorist group FARC who was expected to take a lawmaking seat in Colombia’s Congress this year was arrested late Monday on charges of attempting to traffic ten tons of cocaine into the United States.
Colombia’s conservative Democratic Center party took control of the upper house of Congress and captured the presidential nomination in a primary open to all right-wing political parties on Sunday, a sign Colombians have shifted rightward since President Juan Manuel Santos legalized the FARC terrorist group last year.
The Marxist FARC terrorist group, now a legalized political party, announced its withdrawal from the Colombian presidential race on Thursday following its leader and presidential candidate, “Timochenko,” suffering a heart attack.
Members of Colombia’s Marxist FARC terrorist organization – who Bogotá has allowed to field candidates in the 2018 elections – indefinitely suspended all its campaigns on Friday after crowds pelted presidential candidate “Timochenko” with eggs and rocks at his campaign stops, chanting “rapist” and “murderer.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left for a week-long tour of Latin America, where he will seek to promote the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and shore up U.S. alliances in the region.
The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist terrorist organization, has taken responsibility for the bombing of a police station in Barranquilla, Colombia, this weekend, killing five officers and wounding 41 others.
The head of Colombia’s FARC terrorist group and political party announced the creation of forces known as the “Common Tactical Units” (UTCs) to promote the FARC political agenda and get members of the group elected in the 2018 elections.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch — considered the “wealthiest” — likely generates tens of millions of dollars annually through drug trafficking linked to violent Latin American cartels like the leftist terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and other criminal activities, reveals the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank.
Puerto Rican terrorist Óscar López Rivera, responsible for placing over 130 bombs throughout the United States and causing millions in property damage, landed in Cuba this week to receive the nation’s “Order of Solidarity” and honor dead tyrant Fidel Castro.
The narco-terrorist group FARC has announced that it has nominated its leader Rodrigo Londoño (alias “Timochenko”) to run for president of Colombia in 2018.
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General of Human Rights Andrew Gilmour lamented the state of Colombia’s program to integrate communist terrorists into civilian society on Friday, warning that, if the plan fails, the terrorists have a “strong chance” of going “back to something worse.”
The Marxist terrorist organization FARC–recently relaunched as a political party–has failed to meet the requirements of a peace deal signed in Cuba with the government of Colombia, the U.S. ambassador to that country asserted this week.
Vowing that “we do not want to break ties to our past,” Colombia’s Marxist terrorist group FARC has announced it will keep its acronym as a political party, while rebranding as the “Revolutionary Alternative Common Force.”
Vice President Mike Pence made an urgent plea to President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia on Monday to act to reduce record cocaine production in that country during a visit to Bogotá Monday.
Colombia’s Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terror group are celebrating a “peace” deal reached last year with the government — and rejected by voters — by launching a political party.
Colombia’s Marxist FARC terrorists have announced that they will launch a political party in the nation’s capital in September, the product of years of peace negotiations with the government of Juan Manuel Santos that will also allow most in the terrorist group to escape prison sentences.
New Year’s Eve personality Kathy Griffin has a message for Donald Trump: she wants to hold his bloody severed head in her hands.
The Colombian government is preparing to reintegrate members of the FARC Marxist narco-terrorist group into its society as they undergo their first round of rehabilitation. FARC terrorists continuing to stage bombings and kidnappings have marred the process, however, which the Colombian people voted against last year.
Security analysts are worried about Venezuelan guns, missiles, and mines falling into the hands of terrorists and criminals now that socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro has begun arming his militant supporters to crush dissent.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group recently empowered by an Obama-supported peace deal with the Colombian government, has issued a statement in support of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela, condemning the United States for allegedly meddling in the South American nation.
The Colombian government announced Wednesday that it had approved for an amnesty and rehabilitation program four members of the Marxist terror organization FARC, the beginning of the implementation of a peace deal expected to allow 4,500 terrorists to reintegrate into society.
Brazilian and Colombian officials are warning that Brazil’s largest drug syndicate, the First Capital Command (PCC), has begun hiring members of the Marxist terrorist group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) following the signing of a “peace deal” to disarm the FARC.
The Obama administration has linked U.S. law enforcement with their Cuban counterparts in a partnership “on counternarcotics, counterterrorism, legal cooperation, and money laundering,” according to a Statement from the U.S. embassy in Havana.
The Colombian legislature has passed an updated version of the peace accord proposed by President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC, over protests from opposition legislators who say it is unconstitutional to agree to such a deal without a democratic vote.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the deadly Marxist narco-terror group FARC signed a new “peace deal” Thursday after Colombians rejected the amnesty deal in a popular vote last month.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced the conclusion of a new “peace deal” with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group. This agreement appears to be designed to avoid a national referendum and thus another round of humiliation if the people reject it again.
The organization Wikileaks is claiming that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry personally pressured the government of Ecuador to cut its founder Julian Assange’s internet access, preventing further publication of private emails from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who spent six years as a hostage of the FARC, said Friday that she believed FARC leaders deserved to share the Nobel Peace Prize with this year’s winner, President Juan Manuel Santos.
On the eve of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, various experts and committee members predicted a Peace Prize for Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was “out of the question” thanks to the Colombian people rejecting an amnesty deal for the FARC.
Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC terror group chief “Timochenko” have been dropped from the shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize candidates after the nation rejected a peace deal that would have allowed the FARC to evolve into a political party.
President Juan Manuel Santos has announced that, as the Colombian people voted “no” on a negotiated amnesty deal with the FARC terrorist group, Bogotá will be forced to end its ceasefire with the group at the end of the month.
