BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government issued ... during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war. The apology comes as Colombia’s government attempts to make amends ...

NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to reporter Jorge Valencia about banana brand Chiquita being found liable in US courts for deaths during the Colombian Civil War ...

The commission is made up of academics and representatives of civil society ... with 30,000 war victims, military leaders, former guerrilla fighters and five former Colombian presidents.

Colombia’s army says 57 soldiers were kidnapped in a cocaine-producing region by civilians tied to rebel dissidents ...

The United Self-Defense Forces were a product of Colombia’s brutal civil war, which erupted in the 1960s and killed at least 220,000 people. They formed in 1997 as a coalition of heavily armed ...

Banana company Chiquita Brands International has been found liable for financing a far-right Colombian paramilitary ... by the group during the country's civil war, a federal jury in Florida ...

“War damages everything it touches, it damages the attacked ones and those who are attacked,” he added. De Roux then proposed a change to the “security system” in force in Colombia.

This week, a federal jury in Florida found fruit giant Chiquita Brands liable for deaths during Colombia's civil war. They ordered the company to pay the families of eight men over $38 million.