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Doris Tejada touches the tattoo of her missing son Oscar Morales as she gives an interview in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Tejada said her son disappeared in 2007 near the Venezuelan border and became a "false positive," a civilian intentionally registered as a rebel and slain by the military. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia’s disappeared: As a coalition, former enemies now search for loved ones and dream of peace

Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and the government in Colombia have left 450,000 people killed and more than 124,000 disappeared.
 
Police patrol in Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia president decrees emergency powers to restore order in coca region wracked by rebel combat

 
Pablo Beltran, commander and chief negotiator for the National Liberation Army, ELN, rebel group speaks during a joint press conference with Jose Otty Patiño, chief negotiator for the Colombian government, as a part of the peace talks between both parties in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia reactivates arrest orders for top rebels blamed for deadly violence in cocaine turf war

 
A farm laborer picks coca leaves on a hillside of the Micay Canyon, southwestern Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. The Micay Canyon connects the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, serving as a corridor for drug and weapons trafficking. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Cocaine trade in the rugged Micay Canyon threatens Colombia’s peace efforts

 
FILE - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, front left, and the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Rodrigo Londono, known by the alias Timochenko, shake hands after signing the peace agreement between the government and the FARC to end over 50 years of conflict, in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Dozens of former FARC fighters abandon ‘reincorporation’ village in Colombia after death threats

 

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People displaced by violence in Colombia flee across the border to Venezuela

Inhabitants of the Colombian town of Tibu, on the northern border with Venezuela, have fled following a wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead in clashes between two armed groups in the last week. (AP/Fernando Vergara)
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A women stands among boxes representing symbolic coffins as she remembers former guerrillas and social leaders who have been killed since the 2016 signing of a peace agreement between rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and the government, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombians mourn the killings of hundreds of former rebel fighters and human rights leaders

 
FILE - Colombian President Gustavo Petro holds a ceremony to formally begin a six-month cease-fire as part of a process to forge permanent peace with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 3, 2023. Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire in Jan. 2024, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogota in an effort to reduce violence in rural parts of the country. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Colombia extends cease-fire with FARC splinter group in bid to reduce rural violence

 
Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Ivan Danilo Rueda, center, speaks during talks with members of the Central General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, during peace talks in Tibu, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The group is an an armed faction of the FARC that broke away and never signed the 2016 peace agreement with the government. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia signs 3-month cease-fire with FARC holdout group

 
FILE - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, from left, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Monsignor Hector Henao and National Liberation Army leader Israel Ramirez, alias Pablo Beltran, attend a ceremony to formally begin a six-month cease-fire as part of a process to forge a permanent peace between the National Liberation Army or ELN, and the government, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s commitment to transform long-marginalized rural and conflict areas and new peace efforts were the highlights of his first year in office, the U.N. special envoy for the South American country said.(AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

UN envoy: Colombian president’s commitments to rural reforms and peace efforts highlight first year

 

UN given green light to monitor peace deal between Colombia’s government and its largest rebel group