Colombia

November 29, 2017
Isabel Peñaranda

After the peace accord, can the Colombian government incentivize coca planters to cultivate other crops? Not if they don’t address the inequality and land grabbing that prompted them to start growing coca in the first place.

October 18, 2017
Mario Murillo

As a 53-year civil war winds down, coca growers face growing pressure to shelve their lucrative crop.

September 22, 2017
Steven Cohen

In Season 3 of the hit Netflix series Narcos, a revisionist politics deepens as the show’s guiding narrative.

June 22, 2017
Nick MacWilliam

International observers assess the progress–and shortcomings–of Colombia’s demobilization process, part of its historic peace accord to end 50 years of civil war in the country.

May 31, 2017
Chelsey Dyer

As protests in Colombia rage on, President Trump’s meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos could point towards a deepening of militarized drug war policies over investing in Colombia's peace process.

March 23, 2017
Roosbelinda Cárdenas

For Colombia’s Afro-Colombian communities, a peace process that seeks social inclusion alone will not remedy centuries of anti-Black racism. 

February 8, 2017
Ernesto Semán

How Fidel Castro came to embrace revolutionary violence and understand the limitations of democratic movements– and what it means today.

February 7, 2017
Chelsey Dyer

The Trump administration and regional rightward shift creates an imperative for a new kind of transnational solidarity with Colombia. 

October 18, 2016
Lina Britto

As Colombia’s youth take the streets to move the country toward reconciliation—calling themselves Generation Peace—a personal reflection on the responsibility of older generations of Colombians

October 14, 2016
Kate Paarlberg-Kvam

Women peace activists continue to play a crucial role in paving the way towards a peace accord in Colombia that promotes gender justice in the face of conservative opposition.

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