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After a military operation against FARC dissidents, shopkeeper Ramiro Correa was killed sparking outrage.

Colombia signed the Ottawa Treaty in 1997, but only in 2016 did FARC, its largest guerrilla group, pledge to assist in demining efforts.

Colombia's "Total Peace" plan faces challenges as armed groups fragment over drug and gold profits, hindering President Petro's peace negotiations.

"...and I say it once and for all, in projects of law that generate FORCED INVESTMENT in the private financial system of Colombia" - President Gustavo Petro

President Petro is being forced to confront the possibility that his flagship security policy may only have partial peace in its sights.

One of Colombia’s biggest criminal groups is expanding its reach, threatening to disrupt the government’s peace processes with other armed groups.

Criminal groups lure children with promises of weapons and money, taking advantage of their poverty and vulnerability. When that doesn't work, they can resort to force.

The plan was ambitious from the onset, but talks with the country’s two most important criminal groups, the ELN and the EMC, appear to be unraveling.

Although Colombia’s regional elections were more peaceful than those held four years ago, they showed that organized crime continues to be a severe threat to electoral proceedings.

Colombia’s oldest university, Universidad del Rosario produces many of the country’s political, business and legal leaders. Still, the university continues to innovate and take an active role in Colombia’s social inclusion efforts, such as participating in the government’s “Ser...