Joe Biden's election as U.S. President could help unfreeze peace talks between Colombia's biggest active rebel group, the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN), and the Colombian government, ELN leader Pablo Beltran told Reuters on Friday.

Larry Alvarez, a jailed founder of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang known by his alias "Larry Changa", has published a letter asking Colombian President Gustavo Petro to open peace talks leading to the transnational group's "demobilisation".

GENEVA, April 12 (UNHCR) - Peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the rebel National Liberation Army, or ELN, that seek to end more than half a century of fighting are welcome. They should pay special attention to the rights of victims ...

The National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Army (CNEB), one of five dissident groups of Colombia's former FARC guerrilla movement, handed over its first batch of armaments as a sign of goodwill in talks with the Colombian government,

BOGOTA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday suspended peace talks with the Marxist ELN rebel group after a series of bomb attacks over the weekend killed seven and injured dozens. The government and the National Liberation ...

Forensics experts inspect the site of a bomb explosion outside an Air Force base in Cali, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga) BOGOTÁ, Colombia (CN) — An echo from the past roared across Colombia on a single late August day ...

Ms. Dickinson is an expert on armed groups and organized crime in Latin America. She wrote from Bogotá, Colombia. A few years ago, one of the greatest risks of driving through Colombia’s southern Guaviare region was getting a tire hopelessly stuck in ...