This week one of the biggest LAN parties in the world arrived to Colombia: Campus Party. Held in Spain since 1997, this year Campus Party left Europe for São Paulo (February) and Bogotá (June), in order to bring technology and innovation not only for the fans but also for the common people.
equinoXio has been invited […]

Pedro Antonio Marín (Manuel Marulanda Vélez, Tirofijo or Sureshot) and Guillermo León Sáenz (Alfonso Cano)

On 25 May 2008, Rodrigo Londoño, aka Timoleón Jiménez or Timochenko, confirmed the death last 26 March of 78-year-old Pedro Antonio Marín, aka Manuel Marulanda Vélez or Tirofijo (Sureshot), Colombian guerrilla FARC’s top leader. The confirmation came on a video broadcast […]

From left to right, general Óscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL’s Secretary General, and María del Pilar Hurtado, director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), on Bogotá, 15 May (Photo credit: teleSUR)
As we did on Wednesday with the extradition of 14 paramilitary chiefs to the United States, equinoXio […]

In this special feature, we introduce two articles, written by two well known Colombian bloggers who also happen to be journalists, which, from different points of view will provide our readers a complete overview on what is really happening in Colombia right now, so you can make your own opinion.

On Tuesday early morning, the Colombian government sent to the United States 14 demobilized United Self-defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) leaders, who were jailed in three prisons in Bogotá, Barranquilla, and Itagüí (Antioquia department, northwest), on extradition. President Álvaro Uribe administration, facing an ongoing scandal for alleged links between lawmakers (some 30 of them already in jail, including Uribe’s cousin) and top politicians who supported him with the paramilitary militias, made the decision on the grounds of them “still committing crimes and reorganizing criminal structures”

Costa Rican Foreign Ministry denied former Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, 58, cousin of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a political asylum request, after the Colombian General Attorney’s office issued early Tuesday an arrest warrant on alleged links with paramilitary militias.

Today Colombians mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Party’s leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. This week, equinoXio will bring our English-language readers a small special tribute to his legacy, his ideas, and the consequences of his murder, regarded as one of the main causes to the subsequent violence which keeps storming our country.

The killing of FARC guerrilla’s number 2 commander, Raúl Reyes, triggered an apparently unexpected diplomatic crisis between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Though it’s quite hard to catch up with the events (even in our Spanish-language version), we’ll try to work hard to bring you a decent coverage. Here’s our articles on the crisis so far:

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Colombian government said Monday morning in a statement that “it will not make troop movements to the borders” with Ecuador and Venezuela because “Colombia does not have a warmonger tradition and its only interest is to recover its internal public safety”.

Luis Édgar Devia Silva, aka Raúl Reyes, the number 2 commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has been killed by security forces, Colombian Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday morning.