Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 23 de junio de 2020.
A collection of accounts of campesinos who have successfully substituted coca through sustainable and innovative projects.
June 23, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 23 de junio de 2020.
Drawing from a June 2020 Comisión Colombiana de Juristas report on judicial bottlenecks faced by efforts to hold accountable the killers of social leaders, this discussion focuses on Córdoba.
June 23, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 23 de junio de 2020.
A look at the security challenges faced by the Siona people of Putumayo.
June 23, 2020
Published by The New Yorker on June 23, 2020.
In Putumayo, Siona Indigenous leader Adiela Mera Paz works to demine her ancestral territory to make it possible for her people displaced by the armed conflict to return.
June 23, 2020
Embera indigenous community leaders in Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, denounce that a group of soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl. The Prosecutor-General’s Office (Fiscalia) reports that seven soldiers have pleaded guilty, but 25 more “may have had knowledge of this act.” President Duque promises, “We will get to the bottom of the investigations, and if we have to inaugurate the use of life sentences with them, we will do so.” An Army spokesperson says that the institution will not be providing defense lawyers for the accused.
Ultra-conservative ruling party Senator María Fernanda Cabal, known for her incendiary statements and for being the wife of the president of Colombia’s cattlemen’s federation, tweets that the rape allegation might be a “judicial false positive” instigated by those who wish to defame the armed forces.
June 22, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 22 de junio de 2020.
Relatives of people kidnapped by the FARC 20 years ago learn, through the transitional justice system, what happened to their loved ones.
June 22, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 21 de junio de 2020.
Afro-descendant communities along Chocó’s Atrato River fight to protect the river from the conflict’s effects.
June 21, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 20 de junio de 2020.
A conversation with the former governor of Nariño (2016-19) about peacebuilding in southwest Colombia.
June 20, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 20 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the experience of conflict victims who were forced to become refugees in other countries.
June 20, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 19 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of institutional reforms during the conflict in Huila department.
June 19, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 19 de junio de 2020.
An exchange between experts and female social leaders from rural areas about the challenges rural women face.
June 19, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 18 de junio de 2020.
A report identifying bottlenecks faced by the Colombian judicial system in its efforts to hold accountable masterminds of crimes against human rights defenders.
June 19, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 18 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of how Colombians living in the UK and Spain are contributing to the Truth Commission’s work.
June 18, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 18 de junio de 2020.
Drawing from a June 2020 Comisión Colombiana de Juristas report on judicial bottlenecks faced by efforts to hold accountable the killers of social leaders, this discussion focuses on Antioquia.
June 18, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 18 de junio de 2020.
The U.S. government offers a $10 million reward for the capture of dissident ex-FARC leaders Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich.
June 18, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 18 de junio de 2020.
Revelations about a network of military personnel involved in weapons trafficking to criminal groups.
June 18, 2020
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime and Colombia’s National Police release their estimates of coca cultivation and cocaine production in Colombia in 2019. The report finds a 9 percent reduction in coca-growing from 2018 to 2019, from 169,000 hectares to 154,000 hectares, but a 1.9 percent increase in cocaine production, to an estimated 1,137 metric tons of pure cocaine. Coca cultivation decreases most in Caquetá, Antioquia, Nariño, Bolívar, and Putumayo, while increasing in Norte de Santander and Valle del Cauca.
June 17, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 17 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the 1985 Palace of Justice attack and counter-attack with former members of the M-19 guerrillas.
June 17, 2020
Published by La Silla Vacía on June 17, 2020.
A discussion of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2019 coca and cocaine production estimates with Juan Carlos Garzón of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz.
June 17, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 17 de junio de 2020.
Press conference to announce the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s findings regarding coca cultivation in 2019.
June 17, 2020
Publicado por UNODC el 17 de junio de 2020.
A summary of UNODC’s annual findings about coca cultivation in Colombia, covering 2019. (Link at unodc.org)
June 17, 2020
The Kroc Institute of Notre Dame University, which the peace accord gives a formal role in verifying compliance with accord commitments, releases its latest report, covering December 2018 to November 2019. Of 578 different commitments laid out in the accord, Kroc finds that the parties have fulfilled 25 percent completely, 15 percent are on pace for completion, and 36 percent have undergone “minimal” compliance, while work has yet to begin on 24 percent of commitments.
“The report emphasizes that implementation in Colombia is at a crucial point, transitioning from a focus on short-term efforts to medium- and long-term priorities, as well as focusing more on the provisions with a territorial focus.”
June 16, 2020
Publicado por el Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies el 16 de junio de 2020.
The fourth report on accord implementation from Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute, which the peace accord gives a role in monitoring and verification.
June 16, 2020
Publicado por Semana Rural el 16 de junio de 2020.
Profiles two communities of ex-combatants who are developing their own productive projects.
June 16, 2020
Published by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies on June 16, 2020.
An English executive summary of the fourth report on accord implementation from Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute, which the peace accord gives a role in monitoring and verification.
June 16, 2020
