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 ...

Splinter FARC factions, enterprising new gangs and veteran rebel rivals are disrupting Colombia's efforts to secure peace after a half-century of war.

The former rebels of what was once Latin America's oldest insurgency, the FARC, continually claimed to have barely any money. And while they did have a lot of expenses, they also have traditionally ...

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 ...

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 – 20,000 fighter army, which occupied ...

Are FARC fighters changing sides? 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 ...

In a FARC stronghold, peace seems distant. Rebels, one man says, “have better ideas than the government.” ...

FARC guerrillas are not the only armed group which operate in Colombia. The ELN guerrilla and paramilitary groups also control vast areas of territory, applying their own laws and acting as the ...

FARC rebels used to chain their kidnap victims in the jungle until they received ransom. Now tourists pay ex-guerrillas hundreds of dollars to take them hiking and whitewater rafting there.

A couple days after the celebrations in Bogota, I travelled to the frontier town of Vista Hermosa, deep in FARC territory. The mood there was far less jubilant.

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 ...