Juan Manuel Santos

A French national was killed and at least five people wounded Saturday when an explosion rocked an upscale Bogota mall, the mayor said.
"This cowardly terrorist attack at the Centro Andino mall is deeply distressing," Mayor Enrique Penalosa said, without giving details on the blast or who may have been behind it.
A French national, a woman, was killed, he said.

Colombia's FARC rebel group said on June 7 that it has handed in 30 percent of its weaponry to the United Nations, part of a peace deal signed with the government last year to end more than 52 years of war.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Germán Vargas Lleras, the former Vice-President of Colombia who stepped down two months ago as the second-in-command to President Juan Manuel Santos to focus on the 2018 election, is the frontrunner in the early presidential poll.

Colombia created a "truth commission" to help it heal after decades of war under a recent peace deal with the leftist FARC rebels.

President Juan Manuel Santos also signed into law a decree establishing a special unit to search for people still missing in the country's 53-year conflict.

Residents of Mocoa were April 3 desperately searching for loved ones missing since devastating mudslides slammed into the remote Colombian town, as the death toll soared to over 250, including 43 children.

Mudslides killed more than 200 people after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow late Friday in Colombia’s Putumayo province, authorities said Saturday.

Gabriel Umaña, a spokesman for the Colombian Red Cross, told CNN 234 people had died and 220 are missing.

A mudslide in Mocoa, near Colombia's southern border, has killed 154 people, injured at least 190 with 210 feared missing after intense flooding caused three rivers to burst their banks in the middle of the night.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has confirmed that the current death toll has risen to 154 in an interview with local media.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Seven people were killed during two ambushes at the western and eastern edges of the Colombian jungle and the government has blamed the Army of National Liberation (ELN) while the rebels have placed the blame on right-wing paramilitary unit operating in the areas as the two sides attempt peace talks.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Germán Vargas Lleras, the Vice-President of Colombia since 2014, has announced that he is leaving his post as the second-in-command to President Juan Manuel Santos as he intends to focus on finalizing his official candidacy for the 2018 election.

QUITO, Ecuador - With the help of neighbor and host Ecuador, Colombia's government has finally entered into peace talks with the nation's second-largest rebel group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) or the Army of National Liberation, in Quito.