Colombia

June 29, 2018
Forrest Hylton and Aaron Tauss

Right-wing Uribe protégé Iván Duque is the next president of Colombia. But not all is lost: The Colombian Left had its most impressive turn-out in history.

June 18, 2018
Victoria McKenzie and Steven Cohen

USAID has funded the Cerrejón Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cerrejón mine in Caribbean Colombia, to the tune of millions. A months-long investigation reveals its community development projects are a front tied to a long history of displacement, violence, and death.

June 14, 2018
Erna von der Walde

La segunda ronda de las elecciones presidenciales en Colombia este domingo determinará el futuro de los acuerdos de paz en el país.

June 8, 2018
Emma Shaw Crane

Far-right candidate Iván Duque and progressive former mayor of Bogotá Gustavo Petro will compete in the second round of Colombia’s presidential elections on June 17. But divisions on the Left could easily mean a win for Duque, and a threat to the peace accords.

May 24, 2018
Philipp Wesche

While the Colombian government is implementing its peace accord, paramilitaries and complicit landowners continue to persecute the victims of the conflict. But the judiciary fails to hold those behind the violence to account.

April 27, 2018
Editors

Read contributions from the panelists on "The Latin East," conference and publishing collaboration, speaking this weekend at New York University. 

April 17, 2018
Emma Shaw Crane

The FARC’s new political party ran their first campaign in Colombia’s March congressional elections, despite challenges and delays in implementing the peace accords. Following the campaign in Bogotá brings the FARC’s urban vision to light.

December 14, 2017
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

Colombia’s far right is on the attack, working to block peace as laid out in the historic 2016 accords. Manipulating and targeting academia has become a key weapon in their arsenal. 

December 7, 2017
Isabel Peñaranda and Gerald Bermudez

As leadership in Bogotá fails to provide resources for former FARC territories to transition out of coca production, a battle for control over the drug trade reignites the Colombian countryside. 

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.

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