province of Cacqueta

Almost half of Colombia's animal species can be found in the Caqueta province, in which the southern half of the park lies. Apart from the extention, Santos also vowed to add another $525 million to the country's conservation budget to “protect and defend our environment.” Colombia's Amazon rainforest ...

“The substitution program affects the income of illegal groups,” said Pardo. According to Caracol Radio, coca cultivation in 2017 went up in Argelia and El Tambo, two municipalities in Cauca. The United Nations was forced to shut down verification of progress in the southern Caqueta province last week ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a statement that armed men forced the UN officials to abandon their cars in the west of the Caqueta province. The six officials were abandoned in the rural region after the assailants took their GPS equipment, cellphones and two cars.

Colombia's leading newspaper reported on a FARC transition camp where former combatants successfully constructed the country's first legal socialist commune. The reintegration of FARC fighters is currently being monitored by the United Nations, which has already criticized the government for failures.

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According to the United Nations, former child soldiers of the FARC were sent home by the now-demobilized guerrillas before a peace process that began in December 2016. The UN, which monitors the process, said that it received reports from the Meta, Caqueta and Cauca provinces that said guerrilla ...

... website Portafolio talked to tourism officials in three department where a reduction in armed conflict has allowed both victims and former guerrillas to embark on tourism initiatives. This hasn't been easy, according to biologist Fernando Hoyos, who is helping communities in the southern Caqueta province ...