Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
November 8, 2020
No cesó la imposición de los fusiles
Tag: Dissident Groups
Guaviare es Peor aún Para la Naturaleza que Para los Líderes Sociales
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
November 8, 2020
Jimmy Humberto Medina, el Defensor de la Selva
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department. A profile of an environmental defender assassinated in 2017.
November 8, 2020
La Selva, Otra Víctima
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
November 8, 2020
Guayabero: así se vive la crisis humanitaria por la erradicación de coca
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de noviembre de 2020.
A community in southwest Meta department seeks to resist FARC dissident groups and government forced eradication teams by declaring a “humanitarian space.”
November 7, 2020
Seguridad en Tiempos de Pandemia: Legados de Guerra y Crimen Organizado en Colombia
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 14 de septiembre de 2020.
The annual security situation overview produced by researchers at Bogotá’s Fundación Paz y Reconciliación.
September 14, 2020
En el Bajo Cauca, lógica de “aniquilación del enemigo” afecta a la población civil
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 4 de septiembre de 2020.
The security situation worsens in the Bajo Cauca region of northeastern Antioquia, a coca and cocaine-producing region with presence of two paramilitary groups, FARC dissidents, and ELN.
September 4, 2020
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.
August 18, 2020
Avances y desafíos de la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en Guaviare
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
August 5, 2020
Caption: “Una vez más las tropas de la #CuartaDivisión del @COL_EJERCITO
en el Guaviare y sur del Meta, logran golpear al grupo armado organizado residual Estructura Primera.”
August 5, 2020
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.
August 4, 2020
Captura de alias Ariel miembro de las disidencias de FARC
Publicado por Semana el 25 de julio de 2020.
A top member of the FARC dissident group headed by former chief guerrilla negotiator Iván Márquez has been captured.
July 25, 2020
Atentado en Corinto, Cauca, deja un muerto y un capturado
Publicado por Semana el 17 de julio de 2020.
Report on an attack, believed by FARC dissidents, in northern Cauca.
July 17, 2020
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.
July 8, 2020
July 7, 2020
Caption: “Tropas de la #SéptimaBrigada del @COL_EJERCITO, ubicaron en las últimas horas un depósito con abundante material de guerra y explosivos pertenecientes al grupo armado organizado residual GAO-r Estructura Séptima.”
July 7, 2020
June 30, 2020
Caption: “En el #ValleDelCauca, tropas de @Ejercito_Div3 dieron un contundente golpe a la primera comisión del grupo armado organizado residual Columna Móvil Dagoberto García, con la captura de cuatro de sus integrantes.”
June 30, 2020
Por Jesús Santrich, EE.UU. ofrece hasta USD 10 millones de recompensa
Publicado por Semana el 18 de junio de 2020.
The U.S. government offers a $10 million reward for the capture of dissident ex-FARC leaders Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich.
June 18, 2020
May 25, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Iván Simonovis alleges that former FARC negotiator turned dissident “Jesús Santrich” is residing in Caracas under the protection of a regime-tied colectivo.
May 25, 2020
May 8, 2020
Police capture FARC dissident leader Audiel Pinto Calderón, alias “Korea,” in Vichada. Pinto appears in a much-circulated August 2019 video in which former chief FARC peace negotiator Iván Márquez announces his rearmament along with a group of former top guerrilla commanders.
May 8, 2020
Los armados ahora también juegan a autoridad sanitaria
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 1 de mayo de 2020.
A survey of how illegal armed groups are imposing rules and enforcing quarantines during the COVID-19 crisis.
May 1, 2020
Tres municipios de Meta en alto riesgo por masiva presencia de grupos armados
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 30 de abril de 2020.
A summary of findings, from the Ombudsman’s Office’s early warning system, about the dire situation in Puerto López, Puerto Gaitán, and Cabuyaro.
April 30, 2020
New Explainer: FARC Dissident Groups
We’ve added a fifth resource to this site’s page of “Explainer” documents: a graphics-heavy overview of the growing network of FARC “dissident” groups around the country. These are armed groups founded by, and mostly comprised of, fighters who either rejected the 2016 peace accord outright, or demobilized in 2017 only to take up arms again. The Explainer covers the groups’ origins and estimated size, their illicit revenue streams, their poor human rights record, the two main national dissident confederations, and some regions in which dissidents are embroiled in violent territorial disputes.
April 24, 2020
April 15, 2020
Eight members of the “Carlos Patiño Front” FARC dissident group are reported dead in Argelia, Cauca, following combat with the Army.
April 15, 2020
April 12, 2020
Prosecutor-General Carlos Barbosa says that the COVID-19-related prison protests of March 21, which led to guards killing 23 prisoners that night, were instigated by the ELN and by FARC dissident leader Henry Castellanos alias “Romaña,” who is part of the “Nueva Marquetalia” group led by former chief negotiator Iván Márquez. “Romaña” was known during the conflict as a hardliner who pioneered the practice of ransom kidnappings along roads on Bogotá’s outskirts.
April 12, 2020
April 9, 2020
Police capture Abel Antonio Loaiza Quiñonez, alias “Azul”, whom the Prosecutor-General’s Office holds responsible for the killing and forced displacement of 11 social leaders and former FARC combatants in Putumayo, mainly in Puerto Guzmán municipality. “Azul,” allegedly a member of a local FARC dissident group, was instrumental in a string of rural social leader killings that the magazine Semana called “the caravan of death.”
April 9, 2020