Colombia’s failing state | Part 4: The border with Venezuela
Colombia’s security forces appear to have left locals in the region around Colombia’s main city on the border with Venezuela at the mercy of illegal armed groups. The Catatumbo region…
Colombia’s security forces appear to have left locals in the region around Colombia’s main city on the border with Venezuela at the mercy of illegal armed groups. The Catatumbo region…
Colombia’s most powerful paramilitary leader has turned the largest manhunt since Pablo Escobar into one of the security forces’ greatest embarrassments. Former President Juan Manuel Santos announced “Operation Agamedon” in…
Colombia’s Congress will return from summer recess on Tuesday amid one of the worst government crises of the century and less than a year before elections. The increasingly authoritarian President…
President Ivan Duque lost control over Colombia as mounting evidence of his alleged ties to organized crime gradually eroded the government’s legitimacy. The first evidence of the the president’s corruption…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is facing a popular uprising after a tax reform proposal caused indignation, which police brutality turned into fury. The proposal of Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla was…
Colombia’s security forces have been fighting guerrillas for more than 60 years, but may want to prepare for the possibility that a former guerrilla will become their commander-in-chief. The latest…
No coffee farmer in Colombia is allowed to export coffee without paying the mighty coffee federation, historically one of the main promoters of fascist economics. Coffee federation Fedecafe was founded…
Thirty years after demobilizing with rebel group M-19, opposition Senator Gustavo Petro is Colombia’s favorite in the 2022 presidential election race. The chances the Colombia’s voters will make history and…
Colombia’s drug traffickers have claimed buying political support for decades, a practice that now threatens to turn the country into a mafia state. The ties between President Ivan Duque and…