Colombia

September 11, 2020
Leo Schwartz

Toby Muse tracks one kilo of cocaine from harvest to trafficking, documenting Colombia’s changed drug landscape following the 2016 Peace Accords.

July 16, 2020
Alex Diamond

Kristina Lyons' new book documents soil and farming in the Colombian Amazon. It is a powerful critique of capitalist agriculture and a rich account of alternative practices.

June 29, 2020
Thomas Power

The United States backs anti-narcotics operations as Colombia’s military faces a storm of criticism.

May 6, 2020
Christina Noriega

A wind energy boom on Colombia’s Caribbean coast threatens to continue the dispossession of Indigenous communities—with a green veneer.

May 5, 2020
Alex Diamond

La Pandemia de Coronavirus ha cambiado las relaciones económicas en la ruralidad de Colombia, haciendo que los campesinos cuestionen economías extractivistas y ofreciendo un modelo alternativo de producción.

May 5, 2020
Alex Diamond

Coronavirus has changed economic relations in rural Colombia, pushing campesinos to question extractive economies and offering an alternative model of production.

April 20, 2020
Evan King and Samantha Wherry

Despite President Iván Duque's campaign rhetoric about environmental sustainability, his administration has opened up conflict-ridden regions to foreign multinationals.

December 23, 2019
Mathew Charles

Within the ELN, differing ideologies and visions for the end of conflict may set a time limit on the potential for peace.

December 16, 2019
Kate Paarlberg-Kvam and Priscyll Anctil Avoine

Peace has become the central axis of political-economic contestation in Colombia, as competing visions of what peace means to different sectors play out in the streets. 

December 12, 2019

A selection of NACLA’s recent coverage of the deep inequality, human rights abuses, and government failures to adequately deliver on the promise of peace undergirding recent protests in Colombia.

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