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Colombia to launch commando unit tackling Venezuela-based rebels AFP 2/8/2021 AFP © EFRAIN HERRERA Colombia President Ivan Duque (center) traveling in a military convoy alongside Defense Mnister Diego Molano (left) Colombia President Ivan Duque announced on Monday the creation of a new elite commando unit to fight Marxist rebels and drug-traffickers that seek refuge in neighboring Venezuela. Duque told Radio Nacional the country would launch the Specialist Commando against Drug-trafficking and Transnational Threats on February 26 and be "fully operational" in May. He said...

3 Min Read BOGOTA (Reuters) - Twitter has suspended accounts linked to FARC dissidents after Colombian police complained that they were being used to encourage violence, and Facebook said it has also removed related content from its platform. FILE PHOTO: Ivan Marquez of the political party of FARC is seen after a news conference in Bogota, Colombia April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga/File Photo The Twitter accounts for @IvanMarquezFarc, belonging to former FARC leader Ivan Marquez, and @SMarquetalia, which is controlled by FARC dissidents who rejected a 2016 peace deal, now read “Acco...

Colombia set to charge former FARC commanders for kidnapping January 28, 2021 Colombia’s war crimes tribunal is set to charge eight former commanders of demobilized guerrilla group FARC for kidnapping, local media reported Wednesday. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) will additionally charge the commanders for their alleged responsibility in the “taking of hostages and grave deprivation of liberty” of thousands of people. The charges are considerably more serious and explicit than the initial investigation into the “illegal retention of people by the FARC,” considered a euphe...

Twitter has suspended accounts linked to FARC dissidents after Colombian police complained that they were being used to encourage violence, and Facebook said it has also removed related content from its platform.

Twitter has suspended the accounts of several ex-commanders of the former Colombian guerrilla movement FARC.