Colombia’s incoming President Ivan Duque will have to deal with several enormous challenges after taking office on Tuesday. War or peace? Duque’s predecessor, Juan Manuel Santos, won a Nobel Peace…
Leftist guerrilla groups are responsible for almost 17% of the civilians who were killed in Colombia’s armed conflict, according to the country’s most comprehensive study to date. The National Center…
Colombia’s President-elect Ivan Duque has called in experienced executives, dynasty politicians and personal friends of former President Alvaro Uribe to run the country until 2022. The following people will be…
Fires are raging on the edge of the Amazon forest in southern Colombia. Ranchers and farmers are burning down the lungs of the earth for cattle and coca.
According to both Colombia’s government and opposition, the country has been extraditing its citizens to the United States under a treaty that was rejected by the constitutional court in 1980 already. This…
The war with Colombia’s last remaining guerrilla group, the ELN, has waged since 1964, but has a history that began in the 19th century. Violence and civil war have plagued…
Colombia recently rejected a peace deal with the Marxist rebel group FARC partly because systematic media bias has severely distorted public perception of the country’s armed conflict. When Colombians were asked whether…
The DAS wiretapping scandal unfolded in 2008 after opposition politicians, media and authorities discovered that Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency, the DAS, had been spying on the Supreme Court, journalists, human…