The Latest Breaking News from FARC

Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogota that seek to reduce violence in rural parts of the country

Viche, a sugar cane-based drink made by African-Colombian communities for centuries, is slowly gaining legality and respectability

Indigenous peoples in Colombia are being targeted and fragmented by armed groups who plunder the forest for gold and timber and take control of land

Across Colombia, decades of war between leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries, trafficking groups and the government have left more than 9.5 million people as victims of forced displacement, homicide, sexual violence and more

Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over, including Paris, Madrid and London

Former members of the Farc guerrilla army in Colombia who laid down their arms as part of a peace deal in 2016 are being forced off the land they were allowed to settle after they demobilised.

After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.

Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army, or ELN, have formally begun a six-month cease-fire as part of a process to forge a permanent peace between authorities and the country’s last remaining rebel group

Official figures show deforestation fell 26% in Colombian Amazon last year and 29% nationwide