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Eleven months after the wave of violence that emptied entire sidewalks and turned Catatumbo into the country’s largest displacement focus, the calendar marks another Christmas under fire. Despite the announcement of a ceasefire between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and Front 33 of FARC’s dissidents by the end of the year, rural communities have again been trapped in armed clashes that have led to displacements, confinements and a renewed hu…
The region of Catatumbo has become an epicenter of armed confrontations that have left nearly a hundred dead and have forced thousands of peasants to leave their lands, often without possibility of return due to the persistence of fighting
Bogotá, 26 Dec (Prensa Latina) The Second Division of the Colombian National Army intensified today the deployment of troops in the region of Catatumbo, in the northeast, where fighting between armed groups intensified since yesterday. The post They deploy military troops for combats in northeastern Colombia first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.
At least 250 people have had to leave their homes in the Catatumbo region in the past 24 hours and nearly 6,000 more are at risk of confinement and forced displacement due to recent clashes between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a FARC dissent. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) warned of an intensification of the humanitarian crisis in the area, resulting from the territorial dispute and the control of illicit economies between these a…
On Thursday, December 25, Colombian authorities called for an end to the clashes in the Catatumbo region between the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the 33rd Front of the Dissidences of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), which forced the displacement of hundreds of peasants from that border region with Venezuela. At least 250 people from the Catatumbo region, belonging to the department of Norte de Santander,…
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