Colombia Reports’ personality of the year is former war crimes tribunal president Patricia Linares, whose defense of justice for war crime victims shaped Colombia’s future. Linares ended her term as…
The report of a commission advising US Congress on counternarcotics efforts in the Americas was so superficial not even Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization could have taken offense. In fact,…
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) depriving Colombia’s FARC victims of their right to justice through fraud requires a judicial response to prevent repetition. I don’t know and don’t understand why…
Far-right President Ivan Duque may be repressing Colombia’s peace movement, but popular support for the peace process and the country’s war victims is as alive as ever. When former President…
There’s a term for for the mass killing of Colombia’s social leaders, ethnic minorities, women and opposition activists: “necropolitics.” The term was coined by Cameroonian scholar Achile Mbembe in 1983…
The undermining of Colombia’s peace process and President Ivan Duque’s ties to the mafia are arguably the country’s most important news items, yet foreign reporting on this is scarce. This…
One of US President-elect Joe Biden’s virtues is a willingness to acknowledge mistakes, which may come in handy as he’s made some catastrophic ones in regard to Colombia. Now, as…
Who would have thought I’d be talking Colombia to baseball manager Connie Mack who, more than 50 years after his death, still is considered more relevant than this politician with…
Former US Senator Joe Biden should leave Colombia out of the US elections for the same reasons as incumbent President Donald Trump; the consequences of not doing so can only…