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Cocaine Violence Driven by Marxist Guerrillas Rocks Colombiathe raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past week, Catatumbo — named after the river that snakes through it — has been ripped by the most intense ...
There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...
Clashes between Colombian military and guerrilla dissidents leave a soldier dead and another wounded
One Colombian soldier is dead and another one is injured following clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region where their turf war with a rebel group has killed dozens of people this ...
Located on Colombia's border with Venezuela, the Catatumbo region has around 300,000 residents and produces 15% of Colombia's coca crop. The FARC-EMC holdout group and the ELN have long battled ...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a state of emergency in Catatumbo region Friday in response to escalating violence between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and “dissident” factions of the ...
Violence between armed groups in the Catatumbo region has displaced more than 32,000 people, rights groups estimate. Soldiers deploy in Tibu, Colombia, on January 20 amid an uptick in violence ...
particularly “in the Catatumbo River” where a joint action plan is under development given the security crisis stemming from activities by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of ...
The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers. The sharpshooters concealed in the ...
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