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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 […]
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Today (July 15), explosives reportedly belonging to the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) were left on a road in the San Pedro neighborhood of Cúcuta, blocking traffic until an explosives disposal unit could safely remove them. Two days earlier, an explosion damaged a section of the Caño Limón–Coveñas oil pipeline near Saravena, temporarily disrupting the […]
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On July 10th, the Colombian military conducted a bombing campaign in the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia targeting a Clan del Golfo encampment. Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez stated that the operation killed 30-40 members of irregular groups (the specific groups were not specified). These bombings were originally reported to have occurred near Valdivia, but in […]