Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 4 de diciembre de 2020.
Campesinos in the Guayabero River region of southern Meta department are organized against state neglect and forced coca eradication.
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de noviembre de 2020.
A community in southwest Meta department seeks to resist FARC dissident groups and government forced eradication teams by declaring a “humanitarian space.”
Published by Politico on November 2, 2020.
An overview of the state of affairs as Colombia edges closer to restarting a controversial U.S.-backed program of aerial herbicide fumigation.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 6 de septiembre de 2020.
Explains how communities have used a mechanism in Colombian law to defend against aggressive forced coca eradication and a return to aerial herbicide spraying.
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 30 de julio de 2020.
Forced eradication operations are growing ever more aggressive, as documented in this account from journalists in the Guayabero River region of south-central Colombia.
Publicado por Semana el 12 de julio de 2020.
The newsmagazine finds that coca eradication teams have been systematically inflating reports of their results, throwing off recordkeeping for many years.
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 10 de junio de 2020.
An analysis of the debate over prior consultation with communities that has delayed re-starting of a U.S.-backed aerial herbicide fumigation in coca-growing areas.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de junio de 2020.
Concerns about the Duque government’s plan to focus security and stabilization efforts in five conflictive territories.
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 29 de mayo de 2020.
Juan Carlos Garzón of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz looks at the mid-year, mid-pandemic state of Colombia’s coca eradication campaign, for which he predicts no lasting success.
