Published by InsightCrime on March 29, 2020.
The multi-part story of alias “Memo Fantasma,” a paramilitary drug trafficker with a long history and a low profile, who appears to have gotten away with it.
The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting ‘The Ghost’
Links to long-form information produced by non-governmental organizations (other than WOLA)
Situation of social leaders and human rights defenders in Colombia in 2019 and their prospects for 2020
Publicado por el Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz el 23 de marzo de 2020.
Researcher Carolina Naranjo Escobar highlights the importance of social leaders for local-level state building, and steps that Colombia’s government must take to protect them.
El financiamiento de los Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial: Simulación, impactos e inconsistencias
Publicado por el Centro de Pensamiento y Diálogo Político el 21 de marzo de 2020.
A look at the state of financing for the Territorially Focused Development Programs (PDET) foreseen in the peace accords’ first chapter, by a think tank affiliated with the FARC party.
Deforestation in Colombian protected areas increased during post-conflict periods
Published by Nature on March 18, 2020.
After the peace accord, “the national government failed to ensure a functional institutional presence in several PAs [protected areas],” and deforestation increased.
Colombia: Between the Dividends of Peace and the Shadow of Violence
Published by the German Institute of Global and Area Studies on March 18, 2020.
“The half-hearted implementation of the peace agreement and the persistence of violence suggest a grim outlook.”
Monitor de Violencia Política en Colombia
Publicado por CERAC el 10 de marzo de 2020.
CERAC, a Bogotá-based think-tank with an extensive database of conflict information, finds some reduction in politically motivated murders in February compared to December and January.
Colombia: Abuses Amid Massive Demonstrations
Published by Human Rights Watch on March 10, 2020.
Documentation of abuses that Colombian National Police committed during mostly peaceful demonstrations in late 2019.
¿En qué va el caso de secuestro en la JEP?
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 8 de marzo de 2020.
An infographic responding to some of the concerns raised by victims and by the general public after the FARC’s initial testimonies about its practice of mass kidnapping during the conflict.
Retos Humanitarios 2020: Balance Anual de Colombia
The ICRC’s annual overview of the humanitarian situation in Colombia. Finds an alarming 2019 increase in landmine victims, confinements, and attacks on medical personnel.