Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 27 de julio de 2020.
Identifies loopholes and weaknesses in Colombia’s laws and procedures for limiting weapons sales.
July 27, 2020
Colombia: un gran mercado de armas sin incentivos para reducirlo
Author: Adam Isacson
Las guerras del Eln por dominar la frontera venezolana en Norte de Santander
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 27 de julio de 2020.
The ELN is the largest of several armed groups operating, and mostly fighting each other bitterly, along the border between Norte de Santander department and Venezuela.
July 27, 2020
July 27, 2020
Caption: “Más de 15.000 matas de coca fueron erradicadas por tropas del Batallón de Infantería N.°9 Batalla de Boyacá, unidad de la #Brigada23 en el municipio de Cumbitara, #Nariño atacando de forma directa el fenómeno del narcotráfico.”
July 27, 2020
Webinar from July 21, 2020–Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accord: A Framework for Ethnic, Women’s, and LGBT+ Rights
We’re pleased to share video of last Tuesday’s two-panel discussion of the state of Colombia’s peace accord implementation. The first panel presents the principal findings of the fourth comprehensive report on the peace accord by Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The second includes insights from experts on women’s rights, gender, and LGBT+ provisions.
This video does not include the translators’ track: speakers choose the language in which they prefer to speak. The first panel is in English, the second is in Spanish.
July 27, 2020
Fiesta de sangre: la masacre de El Salado que hoy quiere esclarecer la JEP
Publicado por Semana el 26 de julio de 2020.
The transitional justice system has moved forward on its investigation of one of the worst massacres in the history of the conflict, the 2000 paramilitary attack on the people of El Salado, Bolivar.
July 26, 2020
July 26, 2020
Caption: “El Equipo EXDE de la #Fudra3 desactivó controladamente dos minas antipersonales, presuntamente instaladas por el GAO – Eln, con las cuales pretendía atentar contra la población civil y Fuerza Pública en la vereda San Luis municipio de Ábrego #NorteDeSantander.”
July 26, 2020
Memorias del conflicto armado en Sumapaz
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 25 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of how the armed conflict was lived in the Sumapaz region south of Bogotá.
July 25, 2020
Captura de alias Ariel miembro de las disidencias de FARC
Publicado por Semana el 25 de julio de 2020.
A top member of the FARC dissident group headed by former chief guerrilla negotiator Iván Márquez has been captured.
July 25, 2020
Estados de excepción y COVID-19
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 24 de julio de 2020.
The human rights group’s longtime director discusses risks to human rights, civil liberties, and peace accord implementation during the government’s response to COVID-19.
July 24, 2020
Impactos de la pandemia en la seguridad y convivencia en las ciudades colombianas
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 24 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of how urban security is changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 24, 2020
¿Farc ha cumplido con el acuerdo de paz de La Habana firmado con Santos?
Publicado por Semana el 24 de julio de 2020.
A debate over whether the FARC has fulfilled its commitments under the 2016 peace accord.
July 24, 2020
Gobierno entregará informe a FF.MM para evitar abusos sexuales contra menores
Publicado por Semana el 24 de julio de 2020.
Vice-President Marta Lucía Ramírez gives an update about military cooperation with investigations into allegations of sexual abuse by soldiers.
July 24, 2020
July 23, 2020
U.S. and Colombian civil-society organizations release Protect Colombia’s Peace, a joint report calling on the U.S. and Colombian governments to do more to implement the 2016 peace accord and to protect threatened social leaders. “The U.S. government’s diplomatic efforts in Colombia helped pave the way for peace, and this wise investment should not be wasted,” the report advises.
July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño repeats the claim, uttered a day earlier by FARC Senator Griselda Lobo, that the guerrilla group did not recruit children as a matter of policy—while also admitting that the FARC’s policy was to accept recruits as young as 15 years old.
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July 23, 2020
El territorio como víctima del conflicto armado
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 23 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with social leaders from Colombia’s Pacific coast region.
July 23, 2020
Rodrigo Londoño, Timochenko, habla tras la polémica con la senadora Sandra Ramírez
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño talks about transitional justice and the FARC’s past human rights crimes, including forced child recruitment, which the guerrillas are denying took place.
July 23, 2020
Habla Jim McGovern ¿EE.UU. condicionaría apoyo económico a Colombia por chuzadas?
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) joins a panel to discuss human rights and U.S. military assistance to Colombia.
July 23, 2020
Protect Colombia’s Peace
Outlines the current challenges of Colombia’s peace process, across the board, and makes recommendations for U.S. policy.
July 23, 2020
Tertulia Juana Alicia Ruiz, Tejedoras de Mampujan
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 22 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with a leader of a community from the Montes de María that suffered a major paramilitary massacre in 2000.
July 22, 2020
¿Erradicación forzada? ¿Para qué?
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 22 de julio de 2020.
The Truth Commission hosts a discussion of forced coca eradication, with community leaders from Guaviare and Meta.
July 22, 2020
Criminalidad en la Guajira: ¿quién es Marquitos Figueroa? ¿qué hizo Kiko Gómez?
Publicado por Semana el 22 de julio de 2020.
A narco-criminal organization has taken control of politics and corruption in La Guajira, one of Colombia’s poorest departments.
July 22, 2020
Sandra Ramírez: su paso de la guerra al Congreso
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 22 de julio de 2020.
A profile of Sandra Ramírez, the FARC senator just named to the post of second vice-president of Colombia’s Senate.
July 22, 2020
July 21, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives passes its version of the 2021 Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual bill making adjustments to the law underlying the Pentagon and the U.S. military. It includes two amendments relevant to Colombia. One, proposed by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts), requires the Secretary of State to submit a report assessing allegations that U.S. aid to Colombia has been misused for illegal surveillance of civilians, including journalistsa and human rights defenders. A second, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), places weak limits on U.S. support for aerial herbicide fumigation in coca-growing areas.
Rep. McGovern tells Business Insider, “If it was up to me, I would end security assistance to Colombia right now. Those who are responsible for illegal acts ought to be held accountable.…Clearly that doesn’t happen in Colombia.”
July 21, 2020
Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accord: A Framework for Ethnic, Women’s, and LGBT+ Rights
Published by the Washington Office on Latin America on July 21, 2020.
Two panels, hosted by WOLA: a presentation of the latest Kroc Institute report on accord implementation, and a discussion with women, Afro-Descendant, indigenous, and LGBT+ leaders.
July 21, 2020
El terror de una comunidad del Bajo Baudó que vive entre el fuego cruzado
Publicado por Semana el 21 de julio de 2020.
An interview with social leader Luis Ernesto Olave from Chocó department’s Bajo Baudó region, which is suffering intense combat between the ELN and the Gulf Clan.
July 21, 2020