MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the ...

Officially owning a piece of land gives a rural family wealth, which can be used as an inheritance or as collateral for a loan. Property owners are less likely to fall under the sway of ...

In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.

Colombia is thought to have anywhere from 70,000 to 100,000 land mines buried in its soil, each with a “useful” life of 50 years or so. The Colombian armed forces destroyed the last 6,814 ...

Government wants to create 'land bank' using farmland that is not in use and land bought using funds from the drugs trade. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Between 1823 and 1931, the state offloaded vast chunks of land in order to pay off debts accrued during the independence war. The result, nearly 30% of all farm land in Colombia was owned by the top 0 ...

Colombia must punish those who teamed up with paramilitary death squads to steal land during the country’s armed conflict, according to the outgoing-director of the Land Restitution Unit. While the ...

In Colombia, land occupations raise tensions and spook investors. By Nelson Bocanegra. September 30, 2022 8:14 AM UTC Updated September 30, 2022 Item 1 of 5 Workers of a sugar mill ...

President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country's six-decade conflict, to ...