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.
Forrest Hylton, Aaron Tauss, and Juan Felipe Duque Agudelo
As Colombia under right-wing president Iván Duque promises to further roll back desperately-needed public university funding, a student movement is taking action against the deepening of neoliberal restructuring of public higher education in Colombia.
As conservative Uribe protégé Iván Duque takes the helm, Colombia’s right wing plays politics with the crisis of activist killings, threatening to resurrect a deadly state security policy.
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.
