In June, when Colombia Vice President Óscar Naranjo launched two pilot plans of the Elite Corps against the criminal structures in Tumaco and Buenaventura ... However, 145 people have already been ...

Nowhere else in Colombia is sexual violence by armed groups so widespread. From January 2017 through the end of September 2018, 74 people in Tumaco were victims of “crimes against sexual ...

Nowhere else in Colombia does sexual violence ... The government should take steps to ensure that Tumaco residents have adequate services, displaced people have shelter, and rape victims have ...

As much as guerrillas and bandits couch their causes in lofty rhetoric to attract young people, the main business in Tumaco is drug trafficking. This municipality in Nariño province, which forms the ...

A former member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ... spent months in Tumaco interviewing rearmed rebels for the International Crisis Group. "That leaves a lot of people with one ...

that totalled more than 67,000 people last year, according to Colombia’s government. Around Tumaco, where wood and tin shacks rise on stilts above meandering estuaries, the scramble for control ...

This figure exceeds more than any other state in Colombia. In 2012, an alleged FARC guerrilla accepted responsibility for a bombing which killed 11 people and injured 70 in Tumaco. During the same ...

TUMACO, Colombia, December 10 (UNHCR ... Warning about the rise in targeted killings, the local church last week published a list of 101 people murdered in Tumaco in the past three months alone.

“They believe that all the Black people are part of the same gang. No, that is a damning lie.” Colombian navy soldiers patrol the streets in Tumaco, Colombia, on Feb. 19, 2020. The presence of ...