News Links covering Caqueta, Colombia
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Friday, May 10, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Landmines, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Hallan miles de minas antipersonales en el sur de Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Unas 5,000 minas antipersonales que eran mantenidas en bultos y listas para ser sembradas fueron localizadas el jueves en el suroeste del pais. |
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Mueren 4 presuntos guerrilleros en Colombia tras operaciones del Ejercito |
| Author/Source: | EFE Univision Noticias |
| Brief: | Cuatro presuntos guerrilleros de las FARC muertos y dos mas capturados dejo una operacion militar en el selvatico departamento colombiano del Caqueta |
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Caqueta |
| Title: | 7 dead in Colombia as FARC, government to resume talks |
| Author/Source: | AFP Global Post |
| Brief: | In the southern Caqueta department, five militants from the leftist FARC rebel group were killed and a soldier wounded in fighting in a rural area |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Colombia: Mueren cinco miembros de las FARC |
| Author/Source: | EFE La Prensa (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Cinco presuntos guerrilleros de las FARC murieron y otros cuatro fueron capturados por el Ejercito colombiano en dos operaciones cumplidas en el selvatico departamento del Caqueta |
Monday, April 8, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta, Choco |
| Title: | Security forces kill 4 FARC rebels in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | EFE Global Post |
| Brief: | Police and army troops staged the joint operation against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the Uraba region of Choco |
Friday, March 29, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Murio guerrillero implicado en secuestro y asesinato de cuatro uniformados |
| Author/Source: | Caracol Radio (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Las autoridades afirman que este hombre seria uno de los de confianza de alias Fabian Ramirez, jefe del Bloque Sur de las Farc |
Thursday, February 14, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Farc rebels kill seven Colombian soldiers in blow to peace process |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Several rebels also die in clash in southern Caqueta province, following several weeks of intensifying violence |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Fighting between Colombian rebels and troops leaves 7 soldiers dead |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | It was the deadliest clash between Colombian troops and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia so far this year. |
| Location: | Colombia, Mexico |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Extradition, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | El negocio de extraditar |
| Author/Source: | Arco Iris (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Un agente de la DEA, cuestionado sobre las sentencias de Estados Unidos, reconocio que eran "suaves", pero dijo que ellos no podian hacer nada. |
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta, Meta |
| Title: | Tres guerrilleros muertos en operativos contra Farc en Caqueta y Meta |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Diferentes operativos del Ejercito en el norte del Caqueta y el departamento del Meta dejan tres insurgentes muertos, tres capturados y siete mas que se entregaron, entre ellos cuatro menores |
Monday, February 4, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Ataque de Farc deja sin clase a 100 ninos |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El esperado sueno de un dormitorio para los ninos de la escuelita de Balsillas, en el norte del departamento del Caqueta, se esfumo luego de que guerrilleros de la Columna Movil Teofilo Forero de las Farc dinamitaran el edificio |
Monday, November 5, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | FARC, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta, Valle del Cauca |
| Title: | Farc realizo ataques en el sur del pais |
| Author/Source: | Redaccion Cali Y Neiva El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Dos policias y cinco civiles, heridos en ataques de las Farc en el Cauca y Caqueta. |
Thursday, October 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta, Putumayo |
| Title: | Crecen bloqueos en Caqueta y Putumayo por movilizaciones campesinas |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La entrada de multinacionales al departamento, la explotacion minero energetica que estaria afectando los recursos naturales de la region, son entre otros los argumentos de los manifestantes. |
Monday, October 8, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Corruption |
| Colombia Category: | Corruption, FARC, FARC Leaders |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Inhabilitan por 18 anos a excongresista Luis Fernando Almario |
| Author/Source: | REDACCIÓN JUSTICIA El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Exrepresentante a la Camara por Caqueta tambien fue destituido por vinculos con las Auc. |
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | El ejercito colombiano mata a otro lider de las FARC tras abrir la via de dialogo |
| Author/Source: | El Pais (Cali Colombia) |
| Brief: | El fallecido es Ramiro Guerrero Vargas, alias Samuel, el numero dos del tercer frente de las FARC. |
Monday, July 23, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Caqueta, Narino, Putumayo |
| Title: | 'Atentados muestran que Farc estan acorraladas': presidente Santos |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Visito Caqueta tras ataque a puente. Tres pueblos de Arauca sin agua por voladura de oleoducto. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Colombian 'Farc rebels' blow up bridge in San Vicente |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | No-one was injured in the explosion, but the town is now virtually cut off. |
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Capturan a hombre que habria coordinado secuestro de Íngrid Betancourt |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Cayo este lunes en Caqueta Marcos Alvis Patino, alias 'Efren' o 'Patequeso', senalado guerrillero de las Farc, quien segun fuentes de inteligencia es uno de los mayores carceleros de secuestrados por esta guerrilla. |
Friday, June 22, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Video: Colombia Caught in the crossfire (cc en espanol) |
| Author/Source: | YouTube |
| Brief: | France24 documentary by Romeo Langlois on an antinarcotics operation that went really bad and how Colombian soldiers set up a defense perimeter to save the journalist live paying the ultimate price. |
Thursday, June 7, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Rebel cemetery found in southern Colombia |
| Author/Source: | EFE Fox News Latino |
| Brief: | The cemetery, where Attorney General's Office specialists are conducting a dig, was found in the hamlet of Cartagena del Chaira. |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta |
| Title: | Asi fue ataque de las Farc contra patrulla que llevaba embarazada |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Gobierno califico de 'atroz' la accion de la guerrilla. Mujer que perdio al bebe continua grave. |