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Santos more likely suspended talks due to the economy, not the army general’s...
President Santos suspended peace talks with the the FARC over the kidnapping of an army general. But it's more likely he lost his patience: first, with the FARC's bombing of oil infrastructure; and...
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State should demand FARC release all children, alongside Gen. Alzate’s release.
What sort of government leadership demands the release of a high-ranking general but not of minors? It’s International Children’s Day today. If the Colombian State did care about children’s rights, the...
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The Transformation of “Pastor Alape.”
A FARC commander, known for indoctrinating and militarily training young recruits, for his strategizing and implementing of the FARC’s cocaine policies, for his links to illegal mining and arms...
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ICC’s eyes on Colombia’s Transitional Justice.
The International Criminal Court recently warned Colombia that any peace agreements, including the Legal Framework for Peace, that are not compatible with the Rome Statute will be reviewed by the...
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Iron from melted arms used to construct schools and hospitals
More than 8,000 arms, taken from the hands of FARC, ELN, paramilitaries and Bacrim were melted down. Disarmament is one of the main questions left to be negotiated in Havana.
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Accepting drug trafficking as a political crime is a grand money laundering...
President Santos proposed that we consider drug trafficking a political crime. But to accept the FARC’s narco past as a political crime is to open the door for the U.S. not to ask for their...
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Colombia’s Attorney General Ordoñez is doing his job.
Attorney General Alejandro Ordoñez said, “The office of the attorney general has said yes to peace, we want there to be a successful peace, but not with the absence of imprisonment for those...
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Time to (again) watch “Impunity,” a film by Hollman Morris and Juan Jose Lozano.
A documentary by Juan Jose Lozano and Hollman Morris is worth watching, especially now as forms of transitional justice come to the table in the peace talks with the FARC. The film traces the...
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Today, May 27: 51st Anniversary of the Battle of Marquetalia, which led to...
Today, May 27, marks the 51st anniversary of the FARC’s founding. FROM THE ARCHIVES: This video, made by the FARC, explains the FARC version of how the conflict began: May 1964: One thousand and two...
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What Peace? Where is the Rule of Law?
Whatever happens on October 2nd, when Colombians vote on a referendum on the result of an accord between the FARC and the government, Colombia will not be “at peace.” We need state-building; the...
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