Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 23 de agosto de 2020.
An accounting of the country’s worsening wave of multiple killings.
Colombia: 93 masacres en 20 meses
Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
El Pais Que Sigue Matando a Sus Jovenes
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.
Liberacion Informes de Inteligencia Operacion Atai
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.
Masacres, estrategia de terror en múltiples confrontaciones
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.
‘La Voz de San José’ que no puede hablar en el sur de Córdoba
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.
In Colombia, Álvaro Uribe’s Immunity Is Finally Coming to an End
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.
Garantías de no repetición, materia reprobada por el gobierno nacional
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.
Sahagún, donde hacer periodismo es echarse la soga al cuello
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 6 de agosto de 2020.
About the dangers of practicing journalism in Sahagún, Córdoba, a town that is the birthplace of a disproportionate number of political leaders.
Defender la Amazonía pone en riesgo la vida
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 4 de agosto de 2020.
Social leader killings have exploded in Caquetá, and few even get investigated.
La cara étnica de la pandemia en Colombia
Publicado por El Espectador el 3 de agosto de 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting Afro-desdendant and indigenous communities especially hard.
El Alcalde antirrestitución de El Carmen de Bolívar
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 31 de agosto de 2020.
El Cármen de Bolívar is a municipality in the Montes de María region that suffered massive displacement and notorious paramilitary massacres in the early 2000s. The new mayor, Carlos Torres Cohen, opposes land restitution.
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia’s False Positives
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.
La Comisión de la Verdad y los empresarios aún no logran vencer la desconfianza
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.
¿Por qué Ejército y Policía no reaccionan con contundencia en el Sur de Córdoba?
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?
El descontrol militar en Guayabero deja civiles heridos y el Estado calla
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.
Las guerras del Eln por dominar la frontera venezolana en Norte de Santander
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 27 de julio de 2020.
The ELN is the largest of several armed groups operating, and mostly fighting each other bitterly, along the border between Norte de Santander department and Venezuela.
Fiesta de sangre: la masacre de El Salado que hoy quiere esclarecer la JEP
Publicado por Semana el 26 de julio de 2020.
The transitional justice system has moved forward on its investigation of one of the worst massacres in the history of the conflict, the 2000 paramilitary attack on the people of El Salado, Bolivar.
Por lo menos 140 bandas criminales ponen en riesgo la vida en Medellín
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 21 de julio de 2020.
An overview, relying on studies from the Defensoría, of recent criminal gang dynamics in Medellín.
El Ejército no solo mató a Salvador: lo graduó de guerrillero…sin serlo
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.
Coca inflada: reportes de erradicación de la Fuerza Pública estarían alterados
Publicado por Semana el 12 de julio de 2020.
The newsmagazine finds that coca eradication teams have been systematically inflating reports of their results, throwing off recordkeeping for many years.
In Latin America, the Pandemic Threatens Equality Like Never Before
Published by The New York Times on July 11, 2020.
Reporters travel 1,000 miles across pandemic-hit Colombia and find many examples of human suffering.
Mafias pagan 5 millones de pesos por hectárea deforestada en el Meta
Publicado por Semana Sostenible el 8 de julio de 2020.
Reveals the role of dissident groups and cattle ranching in the destruction of forest and national park land in Colombia’s south-central department of Meta.
Engaños y bots, la cruzada digital en contra de la JEP
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de julio de 2020.
An investigation into social media campaigns, relying heavily on bots, aimed at discrediting the post-conflict transitional justice system.
Los niños vuelven a la guerra
Publicado por Semana el 29 de junio de 2020.
Armed and criminal groups are increasing their recruitment of child combatants.
Los excombatientes del país le siguen apostando a la paz
Publicado por Semana Rural el 16 de junio de 2020.
Profiles two communities of ex-combatants who are developing their own productive projects.