Though the New York Times broke the story on new military orders in Colombia to double kills, arrests, and surrenders, Colombian magazine Revista Semana had access to the same information. Why didn’t they publish it?
Bolsonaro doesn't need an open military dictatorship to crush his opponents. As the “Colombian model” demonstrates, he can lean on violent paramilitaries to do the dirty work for him.
Jaskiran Kaur Chohan and Verónica Ramírez Montenegro
Across cities and rural areas, Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peasant communities are leading the resistance against the state’s dismantling of Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accords under President Iván Duque.
Miles han participado en protestas y bloqueos como parte de una minga durante un mes en el suroeste de Colombia. Sin embargo, el presidente Iván Duque no accedió a presentarse en la zona para escuchar sus reclamos.
Thousands have participated in a month of marches and blockades as part of a minga protest in southwest Colombia. But President Iván Duque never showed up to listen to their demands.
Demobilized former combatants in Colombia’s five-decade war are facing emotional challenges in understanding and contending with their pasts as they seek to reintegrate into civilian society.
En el departamento de Putumayo, en el sur de Colombia, un grupo de mujeres está construyendo tejido social a pesar de una cantidad alarmante de amenazas y actos de violencia contra ellas.
Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s epic film tells the 1970s history of Colombia’s marijuana drug trade as it has never been told before: from an Indigenous Wayuu perspective
Despite the 2016 peace accords in Colombia, conflict and violence continue due to the U.S.-supported neoliberal economic model. In order to imagine peace, we must imagine a new model of reparations and justice.
