Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 4 de diciembre de 2020.
Campesinos in the Guayabero River region of southern Meta department are organized against state neglect and forced coca eradication.
Published by The Guardian on November 19, 2020.
A profile of Gen. (Ret.) Mario Montoya and the legacy of the “False Positives” human rights scandal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Published by the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy on August 1, 2020.
U.S. and Colombian economists find a correlation between 2003-08 “false positive” killings, the weakness of judicial institutions, and the prevalence of colonels commanding Army brigades.
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.
Publicado por Vorágine el 17 de julio de 2020.
After killing him in late June in Catatumbo, Colombia’s Army claimed that Salvador Durán was an ELN member, which the group denied.
Publicado por Semana el 1 de mayo de 2020.
New revelations of illegal activity by Colombian Army intelligence. The magazine exposes some of the contents of 130 profiles that Army spies built on reporters, politicians, human rights defenders, and even fellow officers.
Publicado por Semana el 24 de febrero de 2020.
Discussions with victims in the Antioquia town where investigators from the JEP are unearthing scores of bodies believed to be the victims of “false positive” killings committed by Colombia’s army.
Publicado en La Silla Vacía el 26 de enero de 2020.
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín of Colombia’s National University talks to La Silla Vacía about the history of paramilitarism in Colombia and the possibility that it might make a comeback.
Publicado por El Espectador el 18 de enero de 2020.
Reporters who broke some of Semana’s big recent stories about human rights abuse and corruption in Colombia’s Army tell of terrifying threats, surveillance, and communications intercepts.
Publicado por Semana el 13 de enero de 2020.
In a blockbuster scoop, the Colombian newsmagazine reveals that Army intelligence units have been hacking the communications of, following, and even threatening, Supreme Court justices, opposition politicians, human rights defenders, military whistleblowers—and even Semana’s own reporters.
