Publicado por El Espectador el 29 de mayo de 2020.
A brief history of U.S. military cooperation with Colombia, going back to the Korean War.
Estados Unidos, el aliado incondicional de Colombia
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La erradicación forzada no ha aumentado, pero los cultivadores la están pasando mal
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.
Líderes sociales del Catatumbo: todas las armas les apuntan
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de mayo de 2020.
A look at threats faced by social leaders in the Catatumbo region, with a thorough mapping of the security situation and illicit economies in each of 10 municipalities.
Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside
Published by NACLA on May 5, 2020.
An update from a scholar who has been sheltering in place with a campesino family in Briceño, Antioquia, the town chosen for a pilot crop substitution project before the 2016 peace accord was signed.
Los armados ahora también juegan a autoridad sanitaria
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 1 de mayo de 2020.
A survey of how illegal armed groups are imposing rules and enforcing quarantines during the COVID-19 crisis.
Las carpetas secretas
Publicado por Semana el 1 de mayo de 2020.
New revelations of illegal activity by Colombian Army intelligence. The magazine exposes some of the contents of 130 profiles that Army spies built on reporters, politicians, human rights defenders, and even fellow officers.