But the government is now struggling to impose order as other armed groups seize FARC rackets and territory. By HELEN MURPHY and LUIS JAIME ACOSTA. Filed April 26, 2018, 2 p.m. GMT ...

In the years that leftist rebel group FARC has been negotiating peace with the government, paramilitary successor group “Los Urabeños” nearly doubled its territory and has settled in areas ...

Calamar, a town of 11,000 inhabitants in Guaviare, a jungle region in southeastern Colombia, is in the heart of one of these ...

FARC territory. The ONIC asked the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos — engaged in talks with both groups — to investigate whether FARC members or units are switching sides, and are now ...

FARC guerrillas and civilians build barracks in the Transitional Standardization Zone in Pondores, La Guajira department, Colombia, on March 31. (Joaquin Sarmiento/ Agence France-Presse via Getty ...

Looking at the map of FARC territory and poppy crops, it would be odd if the FARC were not profiting from this industry as well, at least in the range of $5 million a year. In the last decade, the ...

The army moved against Farclandia. The FARC murdered the Governor of Antioquia and kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. By the time the peace talks collapsed, the FARC had a 15,000 – 20 ...

The FARC grew in power during the 1980s and early ‘90s. The drug trade was flourishing in its territory in rural Colombia; the extra revenue allowed it to expand its operations.

About 35% of the Colombian Territory was under the strict control of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or the FARC, as the self-declared Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group is known.

In Marquetalia, the remote birthplace of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, villagers hope peace will bring long-sought progress. But they also worry about the power vacuum that might form once the ...

For six days it looked like, for first time in recorded history and possibly ever, the Western Hemisphere would be at peace. On Monday, after 52 years of fighting, the government of Colombia and ...

As new criminal groups have moved into former FARC territory, Indigenous communities, often located on drug routes and in areas rich with minerals and timber, have been among the most vulnerable.