Indigenous community leaders and FARC leaders participate in a meeting in Dabeiba, Antioquia, aimed at moving toward reconciliation and reparations.
February 29, 2020
Public domain photographs about peace, security, and human rights in Colombia
February 26, 2020
Gen. Daniel Walrath, the commander of U.S. Army South, the U.S. Southern Command’s Army component, visits Tumaco and the La Macarena region of southern Colombia.
February 19, 2020
U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg and USAID Mission Director Larry Sacks visit the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombia’s post-conflict transitional justice body.
February 18, 2020
The Truth Commission receives seven testimonies from former members of the FARC Secretariat.
February 18, 2020
Forensic investigators from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace at a mass grave in the town cemetery of Dabeiba, Antioquia, where they have uncovered more than 50 bodies. Many are believed to be victims of Army killings.
February 13, 2020
While visiting Montelíbano, Córdoba, President Iván Duque responds to the ELN’s declaration of an “armed strike.” He says, “Colombia is united to confront this criminal group, this terrorist group, these recruiters of minors, these eco-killers.”
February 12, 2020
As former army chief Gen. Mario Montoya appears before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in a hearing about “false positive” killings, victims hold a vigil outside.
February 5, 2020
President Duque lays the ceremonial first brick in what will be a “Museum of Memory” honoring conflict victims. Some victims’ groups protest outside against Duque’s appointed director of the governmental Center for Historical Memory, Dario Acevedo (left), who in the past held the common right-wing view of denying the existence of an armed conflict.
February 4, 2020
Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, arrives at U.S. Southern Command and is greeted by Southcom Commander Adm. Craig Faller. Minister Holmes Trujillo visited Southcom to discuss security cooperation.