Bogota's police chief has backed down from his assertion that the FARC were behind the May 15 bomb attack on ex-Minister Fernando Londoño, but warned the rebels are seeking to increase their presence in Colombia's capital.
While the Marxist rebels the FARC appear to be the most likely culprits behind the May 15 assassination attempt on Colombia's former Interior and Justice Minister, Colombia's far-right arguably also had good reason to mastermind such an attack.
Security forces captured an alleged leader of the FARC's 48th Front in northern Ecuador, an area that has long been a key center of logistics for the rebels' Southern Bloc.
The FARC has announced that captured journalist Romeo Langlois, who is reportedly being held by one of the group's biggest drug trafficking fronts, will be released soon.
In a video, Colombia's rebel group the FARC say French journalist Romeo Langlois is a prisoner of war (POW). The Colombian government has rejected this labeling. Who is correct?
The southern Colombian town where FARC guerrillas captured French journalist Romeo Langlois last weekend has a difficult history. La Union Peneya is an object lesson in how difficult “counterinsurgency” is, even in a country that has substantially weakened its largest insurgency.
Although usually a source of public statements for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the domain www.farc-ep.co has apparently been hacked, and is alternately leading to the page of a Buenos Aires night club called Fernet Friday or a notice claiming that the server is down.
Colombia's FARC rebel group have apparently released a statement saying that they are holding a missing French journalist as a prisoner of war, according to reports.
Panamanian authorities say the FARC rebel group worked with a trafficking ring with operations in Panama, pointing to permanent guerrilla presence in the country, and to its importance for the rebels' business and logistics networks.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa yesterday admitted that Colombia’s largest rebel group could be operating within his country’s borders, vowing to confront them with law enforcement and security forces.
