Amid increasing foreign pressure and days before the end of his transitional mandate, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has begun signing a series of decrees seeking to accelerate the country’s peace process. Santos delivered…
The European Union envoy to Colombia’s peace process has urged the government to provide “maximum protection” to social and community leaders, more than 30 of whom have been assassinated since the…
Following major delays, Colombia’s national government, the United Nations and the FARC agreed to extend the deadline for the guerrillas’ demobilization and begin to actively fight paramilitary groups and drug traffickers. The deadline for…
Colombia’s Marxist-inspired FARC rebels look set to miss the 180-day disarmament deadline of May 30, with guerrilla representatives indicating that the process could take another two months, reported El Colombiano…
Many would call war criminals not going to jail impunity, following common retributive justice and logic. The alternative that will be used in Colombia’s transitional justice system, restorative justice, is already…
The proposal of Colombia’s chief peace negotiator to organize an”enormous” extra-congressional coalition and save the country’s endangered peace process was well supported in Congress, local media reported. Former negotiator Humberto de la…
Colombia’s peace process has entered a major crisis after the country’s Constitutional Court partially rewound its approval. FARC guerrillas have declared a strike, and urged immediate action from President Juan Manuel Santos. The…
US President Donald Trump failed to endorse, or even mention Colombia’s peace process in his speech following his first meeting with his counterpart Juan Manuel Santos in what seemed a major…
The UN Security Council heads that visited Colombia early this month voiced their satisfaction with the ongoing peace process, but stressed its concern over increases in violence in former guerrilla territories. The council met on…