Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 31 de julio de 2020.
Discussion of a report about the conflict and the oil sector being delivered to the Truth Commission.
July 31, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 31 de julio de 2020.
A message to the armed forces from the Truth Commission’s president following the military’s delivery of documents to the Commission.
July 31, 2020
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 31 de julio de 2020.
About the Truth Commission’s often difficult relations with Colombia’s business sector, military, and political right.
July 31, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 31 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the conflict’s impact on Afro-descendant families in Colombia.
July 31, 2020
The JEP declares “precautionary measures” for ex-FARC members among its defendants, who are facing increased security threats. The transitional justice tribunal calls on the High Commissioner for Peace and the Presidential Counselor for Stabilization to convene bodies created by the peace accord to guarantee ex-combatants’ security, among other specific recommendations.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por CINEP el 30 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the humanitarian and security situation at the Colombia-Venezuela border.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 30 de julio de 2020.
The Army delivers reports about the conflict to the Truth Commission.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 30 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of how the armed conflict has affected Afro-descendant communities in Colombia’s eastern plains.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 30 de julio de 2020.
The transitional justice system orders government institutions to take concrete steps to protect ex-combatants.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 30 de julio de 2020.
Colombia has suffered four massacres in the previous two weeks.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 30 de julio de 2020.
Social leaders discuss this year’s increase in killings.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 30 de julio de 2020.
Forced eradication operations are growing ever more aggressive, as documented in this account from journalists in the Guayabero River region of south-central Colombia.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 30 de julio de 2020.
Southern Córdoba suffered two massacres in 24 hours as neo-paramiltiary groups fight each other. Where are the security forces?
July 30, 2020
The Truth Commission abruptly cancels a planned event about false positive killings, organized by Maj. Carlos Guillermo Ospina, the Commissioner who is a retired military officer. The decision comes because one of the event’s foreseen panelists was to be Col. Hernán Mejía, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for ordering “false positive” killings and has been released pending trial before the JEP. Col. Mejía is an outspoken figure on Colombia’s political right who denies any responsibility for abuses.
July 29, 2020
Colombia’s Senate approves the promotion to Major General of Army Chief Gen. Eduardo Zapateiro. All opposition senators boycott the vote, as Zapateiro faces five investigations for alleged corruption and disciplinary violations. Another allegation that has been dropped involved Gen. Zapateiro’s possible involvement in the 1995 disappearance of Jaime Enrique Quintero, father of star soccer player Juan Fernando Quintero.
July 29, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 29 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the Colombian government’s security crackdown during the 1978-1982 government of President Julio César Turbay.
July 29, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 29 de julio de 2020.
A look at the aggressive coca eradication operation taking place in the Guayabero River region of south-central Colombia.
July 29, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 29 de julio de 2020.
The Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos delivers to the Truth Commission a report about a long-running case of forced displacement in Cesar.
July 29, 2020
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) releases its annual survey of coca cultivation and cocaine production in Colombia in 2019. It finds that 154,000 hectares of coca were planted in Colombia that year, a decrease of 15,000 hectares from 2018. It estimates that this coca was used to produce 1,137 tons of cocaine, up from 1,120 in 2018.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
A former guerrilla recounts the FARC’s history of recruiting minors.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Illegal mining is worsening in Chocó’s Atrato River basin.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Examines the alleged responsibility of ex-president Álvaro Uribe and the armed forces for serious human rights abuses in Antioquia.
July 28, 2020
Published by the Inter-Agency Mixed Migration Flows Group in Colombia on July 28, 2020.
A monthly update about the situation of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, from the Inter-Agency Mixed Migration Flows Group in Colombia. (Link at unhcr.org)
July 28, 2020
Publicado por la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito el 28 de julio de 2020.
The UNODC’s annual survey of coca cultivation finds a modest reduction in 2019, steady cocaine production, less cultivation in Tumaco and more in Catatumbo, now the country’s largest coca-producing region. (Link at unodc.org)
July 28, 2020
Publicado por CESED Uniandes el 27 de julio de 2020.
An interview about coca eradication and substitution with Pedro Arenas of Corporación Viso Mutop, former mayor of San José del Guaviare.
July 27, 2020
