Publicado por el Instituto para las Transiciones Integrales el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
A narrative of the period of informal talks that led to the 2012 launch of formal peace negotiations between Colombia’s government and the FARC.
September 2, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
Recently declassified U.S. government documents from the 1990s attest to the Colombian military’s low morale and collaboration with paramilitary groups.
September 2, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 2 de septiembre de 2020.
An investigation points to evidence that an Italian volunteer with the UN Verification Mission may have been murdered for reporting on a military bombardment that killed several child recruits.
September 2, 2020
Publicado por el Ministerio de Defensa Nacional en septiembre de 2020.
A regularly updated collection of official security, defense, and counter-drug statistics. (Link at mindefensa.gov.co)
September 1, 2020
U.S. authorities decide to deport Salvatore Mancuso, the former maximum head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary confederation, back to Colombia. Then-president Álvaro Uribe extradited Mancuso and 13 other AUC leaders to the United States in 2008. Mancuso completed his U.S. prison sentence for drug trafficking in January, and has been in ICE immigration custody pending deportation since then.
The decision to deport to Colombia reverses an earlier U.S. intention to deport Mancuso to Italy, as the former paramilitary, a dual citizen of both countries, had requested. Mancuso immediately appeals to remain in the United States under the Convention Against Torture, claiming a fear for his safety if returned to Colombia.
Colombian government errors in requesting the extradition spur speculation in some quarters that the Duque government is reluctant to see Mancuso back in Colombia, where he might further reveal past cooperation between political elites and paramilitaries. Mancuso remains detained in ICE’s detention center in Irwin county, Georgia.
August 30, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 29 de agosto de 2020.
Summarizes recent ombudsman (Defensoría) alerts about the threats to the population of southwestern Antioquia department resulting from increased organized crime and neo-paramilitary activity.
August 29, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 29 de agosto de 2020.
Profiles of four victims of a recent wave of massacres around the country, nearly all of whose victims have been young people.
August 29, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 29 de agosto de 2020.
A rundown of the 1997 paramilitary massacre in Antioquia that, some allege, received support from the office of then-governor Álvaro Uribe.
August 29, 2020
Profile of brothers from an elite family in Cesar, an emblematic case of land concentration and support for paramilitarism.
August 26, 2020
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 25 de agosto de 2020.
In a lengthy interview, Martín Cruz Vega, the FARC party’s communications director, discusses the group’s disarmament and demobilization.
August 25, 2020
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 24 de agosto de 2020.
Colombia’s conflict has devolved into a series of localized conflict with different armed actors.
August 24, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 23 de agosto de 2020.
An accounting of the country’s worsening wave of multiple killings.
August 23, 2020
Publicado por El Tiempo el 21 de agosto de 2020.
Two massacres within a week highlight the daily threats faced by young people in marginalized parts of the country.
August 21, 2020
Publicado por Cuestión Pública y DeJusticia el 18 de agosto de 2020.
Documents indicate that Colombia’s military knew that forcibly recruited children were present at a FARC dissident encampment in Caquetá before bombing it in August 2019.
August 18, 2020
Former president and sitting senator Álvaro Uribe, currently under house arrest as he awaits trial for witness tampering charges, resigns his Senate seat. This shifts the prosecution of his case from the jurisdiction of Colombia’s Supreme Court to that of the Prosecutor-General’s office (Fiscalía).
August 18, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 17 de agosto de 2020.
The country has suffered at least ten massacres in the prior two months. This article focuses mainly on Nariño.
August 17, 2020
Published by Human Rights Watch on August 13, 2020.
Child malnutrition remains severe among the Wayuu people of La Guajira. It is a result of severe corruption and threatens to worsen with COVID-19.
August 13, 2020
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 12 de agosto de 2020.
Journalists who would report on the severe violence in San José de Uré, southern Córdoba, are silenced.
August 12, 2020
Published by Jacobin on August 12, 2020.
An overview of the case against former president Álvaro Uribe and what it says about the power of the right in Colombian politics.
August 12, 2020
Five Afro-Colombian teenagers are found brutally tortured and murdered in Cali. According to press reports, they had left their homes that morning to go fly kites. The massacre occurred in Llano Verde, a neighborhood in eastern Cali where the majority of families were forcibly displaced by the armed conflict.
The Llano Verde massacre is one of seven multiple killings in a two-week period across the country, spurring alarm about a return to violence recalling the armed conflict’s most intense years.
An August 17 statement from the UN Mission and UN Country Team in Colombia reports that, so far in 2020, the UN has documented 33 massacres, is following up on reports of 97 killings of human rights defenders, and has verified 41 killings of demobilized ex-combatants.
August 11, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 9 de agosto de 2020.
An analysis of the security forces’ inability to protect human rights defenders and conflict victims from renewed violence.
August 9, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 9 de agosto de 2020.
Questions surrounding the archconservative ruling-party senator, a leading opponent of the 2016 peace accord and ally of large landowners.
August 9, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 8 de agosto de 2020.
A look at compliance in peace accord commitments and the security situation in Guaviare, a department in south-central Colombia with a heavy presence of FARC dissident groups.
August 8, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 7 de agosto de 2020.
A discussion of the political outlook at the midpoint of President Iván Duque’s term.
August 7, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 8 de agosto de 2020.
Leaders pay tribute to the memory of the Truth Commissioner who passed away on August 7.
August 7, 2020
