Colombia suspends ceasefire with FARC guerrilla faction

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024

The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that Colombia lost 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles) of forest in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, when deforestation hit 793 km2 (306 mi2). Former environment minister Susana Muhamad, who left office on March 3, said the increase was highly influenced …

The ceasefire with the Farc splitter group EMBF, which has been in force for one and a half years, is not extended according to media reports

Last Thursday, at the beginning of the Holy Week holidays, the government of Gustavo Petro announced that it would not extend the cease-fire with the so-called General Staff of the Blocks (EMB), one of the increasingly fractured dissidents of the former FARC. Three days earlier, the Defense Minister held a press conference to clarify that he has no evidence that the strong military offensive against Iván Mordisco, the head of another of them, re…

Colombia suspends ceasefire with FARC dissident group

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has sought to end conflict with armed groups since taking office in 2022. But the suspension of a ceasefire agreement with FARC dissidents makes achieving that vision a tricky one.

By Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español The Colombian government notified a sector of the dissidents of the extinct FARC guerrilla group that it will not extend the ceasefire in force since October 2023 until this Tuesday, in a new setback for President Gustavo Petro's Total Peace policy. The announcement was made by the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, in a letter sent to the delegates of the self-styled General Staff of the Magdalena Medio…