Colombia Reports

Pacific Alliance

The Pacific Alliance is a free trade agreement that, among other things, reduces tariffs for goods exchanged between its four member countries: Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, joined by their…

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Colombia coca cultivation

Colombia is the world’s #1 producer of cocaine, according to both the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United States’ Department of State. While nobody exactly…

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FIAC

The Fuerzas Irregulares Armadas de Colombia (FIAC) are a guerrilla organization from central Colombia. After the demobilization of the Colombia’s largest guerrilla group the FARC it is possible that individual…

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‘Megateo’

“Megateo” is the late dissident leader of the EPL, the group that formally demobilized in 1991. The dissident faction he founded is called “Los Pelusos” by the authorities. Megateo’s faction,…

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Citizens’ Option

Citizens’ Option (OC) is a Colombian political party founded by an imprisoned politician and arguably the most disreputable member of President Ivan Duque’s coalition. The OC is latest iteration of the now-defunct…

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Alternative Democratic Pole

The Alternative Democratic Pole (Polo Democratico Alternativo / PDA) party is Colombia’s primary left-wing opposition party. The social-democratic party was formed in December 2005 from the alliance of two political parties: the…

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