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Colombia protests against Petro gain momentum for April 21
17 Apr 2024 14:19 GMT
… , fears of escalating insecurity by FARC dissident groups, and more recently … Barranquilla. Prominent figures, including former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt and former M …
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Gunmen hold journalists hostage during TV programme: What is happening in Ecuador?
12 Jan 2024 04:05 GMT
Masked gunmen momentarily seized control of a public TV news station in Ecuador on Tuesday (January 9), on a day when multiple instances of violence were reported across the country.A day before, the South American nation saw the declaration of a 60-day …
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Colombia cites advances in peace talks with FARC dissidents
05 Jan 2024 19:55 GMT
… government and the largest FARC dissident group managed to … suspend kidnappings, free 10 hostages, and reduce clashes with … Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - in October. It … the Segunda Marquetalia, another FARC dissident faction, while major …
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UN urges the release of four hostages in Colombia
19 Dec 2023 17:21 GMT
… four people reportedly being held hostage in the department of Arauca … ) and dissidents from the former FARC are fighting for territorial control … ), the main dissident group within FARC, have announced that they will …
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Colombia’s illegal armed groups holding 91 people hostage: ombudsman
11 Dec 2023 17:42 GMT
… are currently being held hostage by guerrillas and organized … victims they are currently holding hostage.
The ombudsman also expressed … Central General Staff of the FARC dissidents are active, we … , is holding 38 people hostage.
The recent kidnapping of …
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Wartime hostages and armchair analysts
23 Nov 2023 13:24 GMT
… a 50-year war with FARC that only entered a … for a peaceful resolution; many FARC were assassinated after agreeing to … violent actors, and stirred dissident FARC to take up arms anew … and eligible for exchange for hostages, was released on Wednesday, November …
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I’m a hostage expert – making deal to release Luis Diaz’s dad can be done in HOURS…but getting him out is dangerous part
03 Nov 2023 13:40 GMT
… the most dangerous part, a hostage negotiator has warned.
Notorious … released soonCredit: AFP
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Hostage negotiator Scott Walker thinks the … such as the ELN and Farc, there is often … Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
Farc launched its guerrilla war against …
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Pastor Alape, the former FARC guerrilla running for town mayor instead of Congress
25 Oct 2023 16:37 GMT
… Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). By then he was a … member of the FARC secretariat — he had previously commanded … with deprivation of liberty and hostage-taking. The sentence to be … sailed when he joined the FARC in December 1979.
On the …
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Hostage-taking as terror tactic
14 Oct 2023 01:45 GMT
… groups. It internationalised and routinised hostage-taking as a preferred terrorism … terrorists increasingly resorted to kidnappings. Hostage-taking attacks represent the following … release of hostages. Through the 90s and early 2000s, FARC in Colombia …
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Colombia’s FARC dissidents kidnap 10 child combatants of ELN
06 Sep 2023 22:59 GMT
… Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC dissidents continues to be among … from Arauca, confirmed that FARC dissidents kidnapped 10 youngsters who … that one of the hostages is a 14-year- … Colombian Government. The hostage-taking by FARC dissidents comes as this …