A wave of coordinated attacks in southwest Colombia leaves at least 14 dead and prompts a major security response.

There is risk of massacres, school closures and forced recruitment of children. On Monday, Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office warned of risks to the population caused by an imminent confrontation between armed groups operating in the municipalities of Riofrio, Trujillo and Bolivar, in Valle del Cauca department. RELATED: Colombia: Senator Iván Cepeda Announces Pre-Presidential Candidacy for the […]

FARC dissident Jaider Poveda Méndez, alias ‘Jhonny Getial’, was sentenced to 27 years and 20 days in prison for ordering the murder of 36 people between 2020 and 2022 in the department of Valle del Cauca (southwest), the Prosecutor’s Office reported this Sunday. RELATED: Colombia Does Not Extend Ceasefire With FARC Dissidents ‘Jhonny Getial’, who […]

Three men who departed in a street in the Colombian town of Miranda, in the troubled department of Cauca, in the southwest of the country, were shot dead, the NGO Peace Studies Development Institute (Indepaz) reported on Saturday. RELATED: Colombia and FARC Dissidents To Begin Peace Negotiations Indepaz detailed that the three people were massacred […]

Four people were killed in the Colombian municipality of Corinto, in the department of Valle del Cauca, including Sebastián Muñoz, singer of popular and northern Mexican music. Also his DJ JJ Villegas was killed. RELATED: Colombian Government and ELN Agree To Meet in Caracas Preliminary reports from the authorities indicate that unknown gunmen shot the […]