Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Publicado por El Espectador el 27 de septiembre de 2020.
Profile of a former CIA agent who served as head of security for Drummond, a U.S. coal company accused of working with paramilitaries.
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 24 de septiembre de 2020.
An investigation of a Duque government policy to transfer some unclaimed lands to large-scale agribusinesses, which contravenes the peace accord’s “rural reform” principles.
Publicado por Razón Pública el 21 de septiembre de 2020.
Profiles of some former AUC paramilitary leaders and the crimes they still need to clarify or confess.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 21 de septiembre de 2020.
A history of how deeply ingrained the practice of kidnapping was for the FARC during the conflict.
Published by InsightCrime on September 18, 2020.
A narrative of how illegal timber traders corrupted security, judicial, and other government officials in Santander.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 18 de septiembre de 2020.
Social leaders are also under attack in the poor and working-class neighborhoods of Bogotá.
Published by JusticeInfo on September 14, 2020.
Poor maintenance to a victims’ memorial in Antioquia is emblematic of how Colombia’s historical memory initiatives are “floundering.”
Publicado por Vorágine el 9 de septiembre de 2020.
A blow-by-blow account of the massacre that took the lives of 5 young people in a poor Cali neighborhood on August 11.
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 Verdad Abierta el 4 de septiembre de 2020.
The security situation worsens in the Bajo Cauca region of northeastern Antioquia, a coca and cocaine-producing region with presence of two paramilitary groups, FARC dissidents, and ELN.
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
Recently declassified U.S. government documents from the 1990s attest to the Colombian military’s low morale and collaboration with paramilitary groups.
Publicado por El Espectador el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
An investigation points to evidence that an Italian volunteer with the UN Verification Mission may have been murdered for reporting on a military bombardment that killed several child recruits.
