Publicado por Semana el 7 de junio de 2020.
Lays out what happened in Bogotá’s La Modelo prison the night of March 21, when a protest led to guards killing 23 prisoners.
June 7, 2020
Motín en cárceles de Colombia – 10 horas de terror
Author: Adam Isacson
10 horas de terror
Publicado por Semana el 7 de junio de 2020.
Lays out what happened in Bogotá’s La Modelo prison the night of March 21, when a protest led to guards killing 23 prisoners.
June 7, 2020
June 6, 2020
Two relatives of FARC excombatants, aged 15 and 17, are murdered on a rural road in Ituango, Antioquia. The FARC reintegration site in Ituango is so threatened by paramilitaries and FARC dissidents disputing Ituango—a town strategically located along a major drug trafficking route—that its members have asked to displace the entire community elsewhere.
June 6, 2020
June 5, 2020
Colombia’s Foreign Ministry issues a statement denying that it lobbied the U.S. government to include Cuba on its list of states not sufficiently cooperating against terrorism, which it did on May 13. The U.S. listing cites Cuba’s refusal to extradite ELN negotiators stranded in Havana since talks ended in January 2019, which would have violated the parties’ signed protocols for an eventual breakdown in talks. The Colombian government’s high commissioner for peace, Miguel Ceballos, angered the Cuban government at the time by publicly celebrating the U.S. move as a “huge support” for Colombia.
June 5, 2020
Las actividades ilegales de inteligencia: un viejo desafío no resuelto
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 5 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the latest military surveillance abuse scandal with Colombian jurist Federico Andreu.
June 5, 2020
Monitor de Violencia Política en Colombia
Publicado por CERAC el 5 de junio de 2020.
CERAC, a Bogotá-based think-tank with an extensive database of conflict information, finds a large increase in politically motivated killings during the first five months of 2020.
June 5, 2020
Forced Disappearance in the Borderland: Unveiling Victims’ Invisibility in Norte de Santander
Published by SSRN on June 5, 2020.
U.S. researchers explore forced disappearance and other security dynamics at the Colombia-Venezuela border region in Norte de Santander department.
June 5, 2020
June 5, 2020
The Prosecutor-General’s Office (Fiscalía) orders the detention of the governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, on charges of an irregularity in the changing of a road-building contract during an earlier term.
June 5, 2020
June 4, 2020
Coca-growing farmers confront a forced eradication operation, begun on May 26 and carried out by the military’s Omega Joint Task Force, Narcotics Police, and Police Anti-Disturbances Squadron (ESMAD) personnel in Tercer Milenio, Vistahermosa municipality, Meta. The security forces wound at least six farmers, some of them seriously. An Army statement alleges that the farmers were obligated to resist by FARC dissidents (“Gentil Duarte’s” group). The National Coordinator of Cultivators (COCCAM) contends that campesinos in this community had repeatedly voiced their desire to substitute their crops voluntarily.
June 4, 2020
Lanzamiento #RevistaDiálogo 7: “La Comisión de la Verdad, innovaciones, retos y oportunidades”
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 4 de junio de 2020.
Two Truth Commissioners discuss their work upon the launch of a new study.
June 4, 2020
Entrega del informe ‘El genocidio silencioso del pueblo embera chamí de Caldas’
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 4 de junio de 2020.
Launch of a report by victims’ groups about attacks on the Embera Chamí indigenous people of Riosucio, Caldas.
June 4, 2020
Peace With Nature
Published by Jon Spaull on June 4, 2020.
A project in Guaviare trains former guerrillas to protect biodiversity.
June 4, 2020
Tropas de los Estados Unidos llegan a Colombia sin permiso del Congreso: ¿Abuso de poder?
Publicado por Semana el 4 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the arrival of a contingent of U.S. military trainers in Colombia, including WOLA’s Adam Isacson.
June 4, 2020
Polémica por video de Timochenko en el habla de “retenciones” y no de secuestros de Farc
Publicado por Semana el 4 de junio de 2020.
Kidnap victims object strongly to FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño, in a JEP video, referring to kidnappings as “retentions.”
June 4, 2020
June 4, 2020
The non-governmental organization Somos Defensores counts 47 social leaders and human rights defenders murdered during the first three months of 2020, an 88 percent increase over the 25 murders during the first three months of 2019.
June 4, 2020
June 4, 2020
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) rejects former top paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso’s petition to participate in the FARC peace accords’ transitional justice system as a “third party.” As a paramilitary leader, Mancuso—who was extradited to the United States in 2008 and imprisoned for drug trafficking, but who completed his sentence in early 2020—falls within the “Justice and Peace” transitional justice system set up for the paramilitaries’ post-2006 demobilization. The JEP denies that Mancuso, one of the most senior leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), could possibly have qualified as an outside supporter of paramilitaries during the pre-AUC era (late 1980s and early 1990s).
June 4, 2020
June 3, 2020
The Organization of Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, MAFAPO, announces that it is pulling out of joint activities with the government’s Center for Historical Memory. The organization cites the attitude of the director named by the Duque government in 2019, Darío Acevedo, who in the past denied the existence of an armed conflict in Colombia.
June 3, 2020
Reparations: lessons from Colombia and beyond
Published by Rodeemos el Diálogo on June 3, 2020.
A discussion of the idea and practice of providing reparations to conflict victims.
June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020
As fallout continues over a scandal involving military intelligence abuses, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo announces new measures: the creation of new inspectors to supervise military intelligence and counter-intelligence units, new standards for personnel entering intelligence units; and stronger mechanisms for receiving complaints of wrongdoing.
June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020
The president of the State Council, the Supreme Court chamber that deals with administrative issues, sends a letter to President Duque requesting an explanation of the deployment, announced May 28, of a 53-person U.S. military Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB). Magistrate Álvaro Namén notes that Colombia’s constitution requires the State Council to be consulted about the transit of foreign troops through national territory.
June 3, 2020
A Second Chance on Earth: Understanding the Selection Process of the Judges of the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace
Published by the Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law on June 2, 2020.
Finds that the process of selecting justices for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace was a model of inclusiveness.
June 2, 2020
Reparación ¿Y ahora qué?
A discussion of the challenges facing efforts to provide reparations to victims.
June 2, 2020
June 1, 2020
In a special hearing, Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño asks the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to grant protective measures (medidas cautelares) to former guerrillas, nearly 200 of whom have been killed since the peace accord’s signature. Londoño says that 40 percent of those killed have been ex-guerrillas who were released from prison upon demobilizing; 39 more have suffered assassination attempts; and 177 have received threats since 2017. He adds that the Prosecutor-General’s Office (Fiscalía) has only “clarified” (identified the responsible actor) in 11.4 percent of cases.
June 1, 2020
Incrementan choques entre campesinos y Ejército por erradicación forzada de coca
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 1 de junio de 2020.
Video of recent confrontations between coca-growing communities and government eradication forces, in which several farmers have died.
June 1, 2020
Afrodescendientes en Meta luchan por mantener su cultura ancestral
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 1 de junio de 2020.
A look at the living conditions of Afro-descendant people displaced to Meta, in Colombia’s eastern plains.
June 1, 2020