Four days away from what is potentially the first display of nationally organized peasant protests in Colombia’s history, the government has yet to make any inroads toward negotiating a substantive…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday said that possible dialogue with peasants from the Catatumbo region must be “without any restrictions.”
A rural peasant reserve zone is a specified area of land designed to “stabilize the peasant economy, prevent the expansion of the agricultural frontier and neutralize the concentration of ownership”,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday said the government will be launching a humanitarian offensive to help those affected by protests in the northeast of the country.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday said he will not succumb to the pressure of striking farmers in the northeastern Catatumbo region and fast-track the creation of peasant reserve…