Colombian President Gustavo Petro's Total Peace plan faces a very tough road ahead. Can over 20 criminal groups really all commit to peace?…
InSight Crime's GameChangers 2022 looks back at the most consequential criminal stories across Latin America this year.
Entrenched criminal groups on the Colombia border keep resisting Venezuelan Army efforts to root them out.
The murders of social leaders in Colombia suggest that some armed groups are not yet entirely committed to the government's peace plans.
Feuding guerrilla factions for control of Colombia’s coca-rich southern state of Putumayo continue to claim dozens of lives.
Former FARC commander Iván Mordisco has reappeared in Colombia after months of speculation that he had died.
Ecuador continues to regularly find caches of weaponry belonging to Colombian guerrilla groups, including land mines and hand grenades.
ELN fighting has reduced in most of Colombia following peace talk commitments, but in Arauca, the group remains active.
A panel hosted by InSight Crime discussed the implications of the ELN and ex-FARC Mafia becoming binational guerrillas.
Colombian guerrillas evolved from seeing Venezuela as a safe place to retreat to seeing it as a full-blown expansion of their criminal activities.
Colombia's region of Catatumbo and Venezuela's state of Zulia jointly form one of the world's busiest cocaine corridors.
Colombian rebels had long been welcome in Venezuela but now, they have arrived in force, bringing conflict with them.
President Petro's Total Peace Plan offers high reward but carries equally high risk for criminal groups and for all of Colombia…
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