‘Pastor Alape’
Felix Antonio Muñoz, a.k.a. “Pastor Alape,” is a prominent leader of the FARC, until last year Colombia’s largest guerrilla force and now a political party. Alape was most likely born in…
Felix Antonio Muñoz, a.k.a. “Pastor Alape,” is a prominent leader of the FARC, until last year Colombia’s largest guerrilla force and now a political party. Alape was most likely born in…
Compared with much of the world, Latin America was relatively free of inter-state wars during the 20th century, and Colombia is no exception. While tension with neighboring countries, particularly Ecuador…
While not widely considered a cause, drug trafficking has played a mayor role in Colombia’s armed conflict as it has been the main source of income for the illegal armed…
Underlying many of the problems which have led to or exacerbated Colombia’s conflict, from economic and land inequality to drug-trafficking, is the central problem of a weak state. The absence…
Inequality is a widely-cited cause of Colombia’s armed conflict, from economists and academics in international institutions to the average Colombian.
With Colombia’s peace talks back on track, the country is looking at what has caused the 50 years of violence that according to the government has left almost a million dead.…
A researcher with the National Center for Historical Memory (CDMH), a government-financed research group, has asked that Colombia’s victims of drug trafficking be recognized as conflict victims, according to El Tiempo newspaper.
Colombia is second only to Afghanistan on the list of countries with the most child victims of anti-personnel landmines, with more casualties than Syria, according to the International Campaign to Ban…
Following OPEC’s decision to maintain oil production at 30 million barrels per day (BPD), stock prices of oil companies operating in Colombia dropped.