Colombia

Colombia

Colombia chooses a new president

The two would-be successors to President Santos could be more different from each other.

17/06/2018

Colombia

Fears for landmark peace accord as Colombia votes

Ivan Duque wins the first round of Colombia's presidential election, raising concerns that the 2016 peace accord with FARC rebels could be under threat.

28/05/2018

Colombia

Colombians vote in high-stakes presidential election

Colombians head to the polls in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday

26/05/2018

Colombia

Why is Colombia’s presidential election important? | Euronews answers

Sunday’s vote is overshadowed by the fragile peace deal with the FARC rebel group, and by political and economic chaos in neighbouring Venezuela.

23/05/2018

Colombia

Former FARC fighters 'murdered in Colombia' despite peace deal

A state prosecutor said on Tuesday that in 2018 alone, at least 22 former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members had been murdered, two years after the guerilla group agreed to end its 50-year war.

09/05/2018

Colombia

Lack of fuel caused plane carrying a Brazilian football team to crash in Colombia

Crew ignored flight plan which provided for a re-fuelling stop in Bolivia.

27/04/2018

Colombia

Venezuelans 'starving' on Colombian border

UN warns of humanitarian crisis "unprecedented in the western hemisphere" if Colombia does not get more aid to feed a million refugees.

13/03/2018

Colombia

Colombia's conservatives leave Farc behind in elections

Colombia’s conservatives storm ahead in the elections, leaving the Farc lagging behind, but no party wins an overall majority.

12/03/2018

Colombia

Colombia's ex-FARC rebels face heavy defeat in elections

They face a hostile electorate who some say are resentful many of the group's former commanders are not in jail for human rights abuses

11/03/2018

Colombia

Colombia seizes 5 tonnes of cocaine in banana shipment

It's Colombia's country's biggest drugs bust so far this year, worth around 350 million euros.

07/03/2018

Colombia

ELN rebels call election ceasefire in Colombia

But armed militants also call on the government to resume peace talks broken off in January.

27/02/2018

Colombia

Colombia declares war on Pablo Escobar's hippos

A herd of wild hippos is another burdensome legacy the convicted criminal has left his country.

20/02/2018

Colombia

Colombia blames ELN militants for bridge bomb attack

Crossing over River Simana destroyed, cutting off access to vehicles, in one of two bombings on Saturday

11/02/2018

Colombia

Ten workers killed as bridge in Colombia collapses

Workers had been fixing drainage on the partially-built bridge near Colombia's capital city, Bogota, before it fell apart into the canyon below.

16/01/2018

Colombia

Marxist ELN rebels resume attacks in Colombia

Three bombings came as a ceasefire expired throwing peace talks in doubt

11/01/2018

Colombia

Mixed verdict on Colombia peace accord

The positive picture presented by President Juan Manuel Santos was not shared by the FARC political party which said it felt parts of the 2016 agreement had not been upheld.

05/01/2018

World

Despite FARC disarmament last year, violence continues in Colombia

New and established guerrilla groups, criminal gangs and paramilitary organisations have all sought to fill the void left by FARC since it laid down its arms.

04/01/2018

World

Colombia's ELN stand their ground while talking peace

The last major armed rebel group in Colombia, the ELN, is struggling to finalise peace terms with the government ahead of a January ceasefire deadline.

13/12/2017

Colombia

Colombia honours decimated football team a year after plane crash

29/11/2017

Colombia

Colombia seizes $360 million-worth of cocaine in largest ever drugs haul

Police discovered 12 tonnes of the drug buried under banana plantations near to known smuggling routes.

09/11/2017

Colombia

CIA told Hitler was alive after World War II

The documents have re-surfaced in the wake of the JFK release

02/11/2017

Colombia

Juan Pablo Escobar opens up about the "ugly truth" about his father in exclusive interview

TV series like Narcos "glorify" the figure of Pablo Escobar says the drug lord's son

31/10/2017

World

'The worst violence imaginable': 'Cocaine king' Pablo Escobar's son opens up about his father

Thousands lost their lives on Escobar's route to the top of the Colombian criminal underworld. Euronews asks the infamous narcoterrorist's son what it was like to grow up with the world's richest drug lord

26/10/2017

Colombia

Colombian officials double estimate of FARC holdouts resisting disarmament

Some 800 FARC fighters remain fully-armed and with illegal mining and cocaine production to support them, pose a threat to the peace deal, while criminals occupy areas vacated by former rebels.

25/10/2017

Colombia

Former rebel group registers as political party in Colombia

Former fighters of what was once Colombia's largest rebel group are completing the final steps to become a new political party

10/10/2017

Colombia

Colombia's ELN rebels to begin ceasefire

The commander of Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels has ordered his fighters to lay down their arms this weekend.

30/09/2017