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Rightwing candidate Iván Duque, the protege of former President Álvaro Uribe, was the frontrunner in the last major poll before the election.

Peace talks resumed this week in Havana between the Colombian government and the nation’s remaining guerrilla faction, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

The national Victims Unit is subsidizing 2.17% of the loan interest rate through an investment of around $150,000 USD (400 million pesos).

The report details 439 instances of “corporate complicity” in human rights violations committed by paramilitary groups between 1970 and 2015.

The judges on the JEP war crimes tribunal will oversee the "transitional justice" component of the peace process.

The abduction reportedly occurred around 7:30 am on the day that the UN head arrived in Colombia to discuss the nation’s peace process.

President Santos recalled the nation's peace negotiator from Ecuador and told the military to "act with force and respond to this ELN aggression."

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today approved a $100 million USD assistance loan to help Colombia improve the nation’s environmental and socioeconomic sustainability. The loan is for a 13.5-year term “with a 13.5-year grace period and a LIBOR-based intere...

The UN pledged to support "Colombia's activities to encourage local communities to voluntarily give up coca cultivation.”

If you add up all of of the guerrilla group's criminal activities, the FARC could have earned some $580 million USD in 2015.