Colombian peace negotiations

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has told the security forces to go after a criminal gang known as the Gulf Clan after the group was blamed for a ... The bomb went off on Wednesday as the officers were escorting officials handing back land to rural dwellers displaced by Colombia's armed conflict.

While the Colombian government and its largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached a groundbreaking peace agreement in 2016, ... The peace talks followed an agenda comprised of six points, which addressed both the root causes and the effects of the conflict.

Former FARC combatants, meanwhile, accused U.S. and Colombian officials of orchestrating a setup likely to sow further skepticism among ex-rebels ... He went to Norway in 2012 to begin negotiations with Colombia's government and then participated in talks that continued the next four years in Cuba, ...

Under a peace deal seeking to end Colombia's half-century conflict, FARC members who lay down their weapons and confess their war crimes are to be ... to bet on peace, traveling to Norway's capital in 2012 to kick of negotiations with Colombia's government and then participating in talks that continued ...

He went to Norway in 2012 to begin negotiations with Colombia's government and then participated in talks that continued the next four years in Cuba, ... with Santos in which U.S. claims that Colombia's longstanding support for the drug war flagged during peace talks is expected to feature prominently.

Colombian authorities arrested a former top rebel peace negotiator on a U.S. drug warrant Monday, delivering a major blow to the country's already ... one of the first rebels to bet on peace, traveling to Norway's capital in 2012 to kick of negotiations with Colombia's government and then participating in talks ...

The peace teams from the Colombian government and National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla are locked in negotiations to reach an agreement on an indefinite bilateral ceasefire. The start of the fifth round of talks taking place in Quito since March 12 had been abruptly suspended on January 29 after a ...

Afghan women have long feared that negotiators for a peace agreement with the Taliban would trade away women's rights for the chance to end more than sixteen years of war. This apprehension may soon be tested. In the wake of Kabul's recent overture to the Taliban, proposing negotiations without ...

It follows the signing of a revised peace deal in late 2016 to end Colombia's 50-year war. Colombia's Peace Commission is sponsoring talks between business leaders interested in backing the tilapia project and former combatants. "It's a win-win because they get better prices cutting out intermediaries and ...

In a new statement issued from the Cashapamba hacienda, where the public phase of the dialogues of the fifth cycle of negotiations is taking place, the delegations confirmed that they will analyze, from April 2, the results of the ceasefire implemented from October 1 to January 9, considered one of the main ...

The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) will resume peace talks on 15 March in the Ecuadorian capital Quito, both parties said. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos's government suspended negotiations in January following an escalation in violence on police stations that ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday that talks with the ELN would resume after the guerrilla group stuck to its promise of no violence ... Santos, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for successful negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ...

PEACE TALKS. In this file photo taken on March 09, 2018 is seen a symbolic round table placed at Bolivar square in Bogota, during a demonstration asking for the reactivation of the peace talks, between the Colombian government and the ELN guerrilla, which were suspended after a string of deadly ...

Peace building has become a pivotal project in Colombia in recent years, with agrarian issues central. Given years of war, the 2016 ceasefire with FARC (the Colombian Armed Revolutionary Forces) and the partial truce from October 2017 to January 2018 with ELN (National Liberation Army), together with ...

Peace talks between Colombia's government and ELN guerrillas are slowly restarting, but neither party has agreed to end hostilities until a new ... The ceasefire that was in place between October and January was the first in the history of the ELN, which has been fighting the Colombian state since 1964.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said peace talks with the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN) will resume after a six-week halt. Mr Santos said his decision was inspired by the success of talks with the biggest rebel group, Farc. The Farc signed a peace accord in 2016 and took part on ...

Bogota (AFP) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday ordered government negotiators to resume talks with the South American ... Santos suspended long-running peace talks with the ELN in the Ecuadoran capital in late January following a series of attacks on police stations that left six ...

“What does North Korea mean by the suggestion that it will consider denuclearization as a condition for these talks?” she added. “It seems highly unlikely that (Kim) would surrender the nuclear weapons program that has brought him to this point. Trump's acceptance of Kim's invitation very well may be the right thing to do at ...

26, 2018 file photo, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos addresses the media after talks with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria ... Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he's resuming peace talks with the nation's last remaining rebel group.

Current Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, barred from running for reelection, can point to a successful yet controversial deal with FARC rebels, which ended more than five decades of heavy conflict. He also elevated Colombia's presence on to the international stage, while opening certain sectors ...

Peace negotiations between Colombia and the ELN started on Feb. 27, 2017, in Quito, Ecuador, but they were called off by President Santos on Jan. 10 after the Colombian government accused ELN fighters carrying out attacks on oil infrastructure and Colombian security forces. Since then, the ELN's Chief ...

The Colombian government and the ELN began peace negotiations in Ecuador in February last year, in an effort to put an end to the domestic conflict that has raged for more than 50 years, killed at least 220,000, and displaced millions. Although both parties agreed to a three-month bilateral ceasefire that ...

For Colombia, this means an uncertain and problematic presidential election later this year and, worse, a possible end to an already wobbly peace. ... One central element of the framework established during negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC - held in Havana from 2012 to ...

JUST one road connects Tumaco, the second-busiest port on Colombia's Pacific coast, to the rest of the country. Beyond its verges are ... In January Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, suspended peace talks with the ELN after a series of bombings that killed seven policemen. Armed groups also ...

A historic peace accord ended the 50-year armed conflict between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. Following ... The government has also continued to pursue peace negotiations with a smaller insurgency, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

5, 1998, and he was setting off with a friend on the nine-hour drive from his hometown of Medellin to the Colombian capital, Bogota. ... "You have to find a way to forgive," says Gaviria, who was one of the representatives of the victims in Colombia's official peace negotiations hosted in Havana, Cuba. "I know ...