Published by the United Nations on September 24, 2021.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at colombia.unmissions.org)
September 24, 2021
Published by the United Nations on September 24, 2021.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at colombia.unmissions.org)
September 24, 2021
Published by the United Nations on September 25, 2020.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at undocs.org)
September 25, 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 un grupo de congresistas colombianos el 4 de agosto de 2020.
A data-filled report on the current status of implementation of the FARC peace accord, compiled by a group of pro-peace members of Colombia’s Congress. (link at juanitaenelcongreso.com)
August 4, 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
For security reasons, Colombia’s government helps to relocate an entire settlement of demobilized FARC guerrillas from the Román Ruiz post-conflict demobilization site (ETCR) in Ituango, Antioquia, to the neighboring municipality of Mutatá, several hours’ drive away, where the government has rented new land. Twelve members of the ETCR had been killed in the site’s vicinity since the FARC demobilized. The Gulf Clan and Caparros paramilitary groups are active in Ituango, as are dissident members of the FARC’s old 18th Front.
July 15, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 15 de julio de 2020.
Violence forces a community of former FARC combatants to abandon their former demobilization zone and relocate, with government assistance, elsewhere in Antioquia.
July 15, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 15 de julio de 2020.
Violence has forced an entire community of demobilized guerrillas to vacate their former demobilization site in Antioquia. A panel discusses protection of excombatants.
July 15, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 4 de julio de 2020.
A Bogotá meeting between mothers of soldiers killed in combat and former women members of the FARC leads to a reconciliation process.
July 4, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 3 de julio de 2020.
Mothers of soldiers killed in combat and ex-FARC leaders discuss a reconciliation process.
July 3, 2020
Published by the United Nations on June 26, 2020.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at undocs.org)
June 26, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 24 de junio de 2020.
A former paramilitary leader and former FARC leader get to know each other.
June 24, 2020
Publicado por la Oficina del Alto Comisionado para la Paz el 26 de mayo de 2020.
Official responses to questions for the record submitted by the Senate’s Peace Committee. (Scribd.com link from La Silla Vacía)
May 26, 2020
A statement from the Gulf Clan neo-paramilitary group rejects the government’s decree offering favorable terms for those who demobilize, denying that any commander has been in contact with the government.
May 22, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 7 de mayo de 2020.
A discussion of lighter sentences for members of guerrilla or criminal groups who turn themselves in.
May 7, 2020
Colombia’s Army reports that four ELN members turned themselves in to troops in El Tambo, Cauca.
May 3, 2020
Twenty fighters from the ELN’s José María Becerra Front turn themselves in to the Army following combat in El Tambo, Cauca. Seven more demobilize on May 2.
April 29, 2020
A presidential decree lowers judicial penalties to members of criminal groups who agree to demobilize peacefully and submit to the High Commissioner for Peace.
It does not apply to the ELN, whose “political character” the state recognizes, making benefits available to individual ELN deserters. It applies instead to FARC dissident groups, the Gulf Clan and Caparros neo-paramilitary groups, and the Pelusos or EPL. These are the groups that, according to the government, meet the Geneva Conventions Protocol II definition of those “which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations.”
April 28, 2020
Published by the UN Security Council on April 17, 2020.
Record of the Security Council’s meeting to review the March 26, 2020 report of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at undocs.org)
April 17, 2020
Publicado por un grupo de congresistas colombianos el 7 de abril de 2020.
A data-filled report on the current status of implementation of the FARC peace accord, compiled by a group of pro-peace members of Colombia’s Congress. (link at juanitaenelcongreso.com)
April 7, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 1 de abril de 2020.
A conversation with Emilio Archila, the presidential advisor for stabilization and consolidation, about how programs to reintegrate excombatants are adjusting to the coronavirus crisis.
April 1, 2020
Publicado por las Naciones Unidas el 31 de marzo de 2020.
A graphical presentation accompanying the March 26, 2020 quarterly report of the UN Verification Mission. (Link at unmissions.org)
March 31, 2020
March 30, 2020
Published by the United Nations on March 26, 2020.
A wide-ranging quarterly report about the state of accord implementation, from the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. (Link at undocs.org)
March 26, 2020