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Yesterday, the Colombian Army raided 12 illegal mines in Chocó, Colombia, in the rural areas of Quibdó as part of a joint operation with environmental authorities and the local police. They destroyed five dredges, twenty water pumps, and thirteen engines valued at 275 million COP, according to El Tiempo. This comes five days after raiding,
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The Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) announced a 72-hour “armed strike” in response to President Donald Trump’s “neo-colonial” plan for South America. The group announced in a social media post that it will prohibit people from traveling on highways or navigable rivers starting tomorrow (Dec 14) until Wednesday morning (Dec 17). According to the statement,
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Early on Sunday morning, a group of FARC dissidents attacked a police substation in El Carmelo, southwest Cauca, a region critical for coca production and trafficking. According to General Carlos Fernando Tirana, they threw explosives at the substation, causing it to catch fire. Four police officers were injured, and one was killed. The same day,
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Last Thursday (11th), over 620 people arrived in the small town of Arenal, Bolívar, fleeing their displacement by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), according to local authorities. Arenal and the surrounding area are critical for illicit gold mining. At that time, Mayor Ramón Sayas told local media that “they forced people to evacuate their
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In the middle of the night on September 10th, two explosions went off in the Lomo de Indio neighborhood of Medellin. They were part of an attack, allegedly perpetrated by FARC dissidents, that destroyed at least one EPM power transmission tower. Mayor Federico Gutiérrez confirmed on social media that it was a terror attack. “Police
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The 33 soldiers who were “kidnapped” by villagers in the Amazon, acting on the orders of FARC dissidents, have now been released. Government representatives had travelled to the Nueva York area to negotiate directly with the community. On Monday, the soldiers conducted a military operation in the province of Guaviare in the Amazon in which
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The new director of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Terry Cole has accused Venezuela and the ELN of collaborating to export cocaine to the US. Speaking to Fox News he said: “ Venezuela has become a narco-terrorist state that continues to collaborate with the FARC and the Colombian ELN to send record quantities of cocaine
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President Gustavo Petro has announced a new round of peace talks to take place with Colombia’s largest narcotrafficking organisation, the Clan del Golfo. The government has been engaged in sporadic peace talks with Clan del Golfo since 2023, as well as a secret round of talks in Doha last February. These negotiations are being conducted
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On August 5th, Segunda Marquetalia’s second-in-command, José Manuel Sierra Sabogal, alias “Zarco Aldinever,” was reportedly killed in an ELN ambush near the Colombia-Venezuela border. The Segunda Marquetalia is one of the two major factions of FARC dissidents alongside the EMC. The group has a significant territorial presence along the border, which is currently being contested
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Today (July 19), the Colombian army dismantled two cocaine processing laboratories in Norte de Santander controlled by the ELN. The facilities were located in Cucuta and Pamlontia, and a total of 275 kilos of cocaine were recovered during the operation. Five days earlier, the authorities uncovered two similar laboratories – one in Valle de Aburra