Publicado por la Corporación Viso Mutop el 30 de junio de 2020. (Link at visomutop.org)
Two longtime Colombian drug policy experts analyze the costs and risks of the current supply-side, eradication-heavy model for dealing with illicit crops, and lay out alternative proposals.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 30 de junio de 2020.
An update on the transitional justice system’s work in Casanare department.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 30 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the experience of Afro-Descendant people who were forcibly displaced to Bogotá and its environs.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 30 de junio de 2020.
A court grants an opposition legislator’s request for a list of those illegally targeted by army surveillance.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 30 de junio de 2020.
A look at the psychological profile of soldiers who have committed an alarming number of cases of sexual abuse around the country.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 30 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of how best to ensure victims’ participation in transitional justice.
June 30, 2020
Caption: “En el #ValleDelCauca, tropas de @Ejercito_Div3 dieron un contundente golpe a la primera comisión del grupo armado organizado residual Columna Móvil Dagoberto García, con la captura de cuatro de sus integrantes.”
June 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 29 de junio de 2020.
Military personnel allegedly raped a Nukak girl in Guaviare, the latest in a series of sexual assault allegations.
June 29, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 29 de junio de 2020.
Armed and criminal groups are increasing their recruitment of child combatants.
June 29, 2020
Press reports reveal an internal FARC party document recommending reprimands and even expulsions of high-ranking party leaders regarded as divisive and insubordinate to leadership. They include Benedicto González, Jesús Emilio Carvajalino (Andrés París), Ubaldo Enrique Zúñiga (Pablo Atrato) and José Benito Cabrera (Fabián Ramírez). González accuses maximum leader Rodrigo Londoño and other moderate party leaders as “submissive to the state” and favoring multinationals’ involvement in productive projects at excombatant reincorporation sites.
June 29, 2020
Caption: “Minsalud analizó situación fronteriza de migrantes durante la contención de la COVID-19”
June 29, 2020
Colombian authorities arrest Ramón Rodríguez Guerrero, a Venezuelan citizen living in Bogotá. While Rodríguez appears to be organizing Venezuelan opponents of the Maduro regime in Bogotá, Colombia alleges that he is a regime spy who has infiltrated the Venezuelan opposition inside Colombia, in order to collect intelligence on them.
June 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de junio de 2020.
An animated narrative of sexual violence committed by soldiers against an indigenous girl in Risaralda.
June 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de junio de 2020.
The high counselor for post-conflict issues, Emilio Archila, and the governing party’s head and former president, Álvaro Uribe, have a public disagreement over Cuba’s role in the peace process.
June 28, 2020
Community members in the village of Filoguamo, in Teorama municipality in Norte de Santander’s Catatumbo region, allege that Army soldiers killed social leader Salvador Jaimes Durán. The military’s Vulcano Task Force, which operates in Catatumbo, releases a photo of guerrillas insinuating that Durán was a member of the ELN. The ELN denies it and the guerrillas release a recording of the individual who appeared in the photo.
June 27, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 27 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the conflict and its victims in the Sumapaz region, south of Bogotá.
June 27, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 27 de junio de 2020.
Animated video accompanying a Semana story about armed groups’ increased recruitment of children.
June 27, 2020
The joint body for verification of the 2016 peace accord’s implementation (Commission for the Follow-up, Promotion and Verification of the Implementation of the Final Agreement, CSIVI) meets for the first time since May 14. On that date, the FARC delegation boycotted the CSIVI meeting, as did the ambassador from Cuba, after High Commissioner for Peace Miguel Ceballos applauded the United States’ addition of Cuba to its list of states not cooperating against terrorism. A subsequent effort to convene the CSIVI, on June 11, fell through.
High Counselor for Stabilization Emilio Archila says that the Colombian government “has never placed in doubt or questioned Cuba’s role as a guarantor country” for the peace talks, and “hopes it will keep exercising that function.” Cuban ambassador José Luis Ponce is a “formal invitee” to the June 26 meeting, at which, the government reports, the CSIVI “defined a calendar of meetings to speed up the work of overseeing implementation.”
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 26 de junio de 2020.
A conversation about peace accord implementation with Victoria Sandino, one of the FARC’s five senators.
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 26 de junio de 2020.
Victims of sexual violence in the conflict reflect on their processes a year after their first encounter with the Truth Commission.
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 26 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the conflict’s origins, focused on the department of Tolima.
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 26 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of how the Inter-American Human Rights System can be employed for cases of forced disappearance.
June 26, 2020
Published by the United Nations on June 26, 2020.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at undocs.org)
June 26, 2020
Published by WOLA on June 26, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
June 26, 2020
