Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

More than 11,000 displaced by Colombia violence this year

More than 11,000 people have been displaced from their homes by fighting between Colombian armed groups so far in 2021 - equivalent to seven people every hour - the country’s human rights ombudsman said on Monday.

Crime gangs, the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas and former members of the FARC rebels who reject a peace deal fight each other and the armed forces for control of drug trafficking and illegal mining areas, largely in places inhabited by Black and indigenous Colombians.

"There were 16 urban mass displacements events and 14 rural mass displacements events . . .

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