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Farc

July 2024

  • A guerrilla with a machine gun wearing a Farc-EP armband.

    The age of extinction
    Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

    Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali ‘would fail’
  • A trans woman looks out of a grill over a window on to a street

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We are killed for what we are’: trans women in Colombia targeted by armed groups

    Paramilitaries killed more than 40 transgender women last year, and threaten a further wave of ‘social cleansing’ in Caquetá
  • A few bright blue river rafts full of people wearing life vests and holding oars, on a green river alongside a rocky cliff the expands high beyond the frame.

    Colombian ex-guerrillas traded war for whitewater rafting. Now dissident rebels are forcing them out

    The 2016 peace deal ended the longest-running war in the western hemisphere and was expected to bring sweeping change, but the reality has been complicated

June 2024

  • men in gear with guns, ammo and their faces obscured stand in a grassy field

    Rights and freedom
    US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads

    Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad

May 2024

  • Wiwa women, in their traditional white dress, spin the yarn to weave handbags

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We saw our family members cut into pieces’: how Colombia’s Wiwa people have been forced from their mountain – again

    Indigenous communities have once more been pushed from their land by armed groups. Will it ever be safe to return to the Sierra Nevada?

April 2024

  • Man with glasses, blue suit and red tie with people behind him

    Colombia ex-president Uribe to face trial for witness tampering and fraud

    Álvaro Uribe, one of country’s most powerful figures, denies working with paramilitary death squads against leftist rebels

January 2024

  • Doris Suarez, second from the left, and others raise glasses of beer.

    Guerrilla fighters turned craft brewers: Colombia’s unlikely beer company with a message of peace

  • Karen Alomia offering Viche to visitors at Petronio Alvarez, traditional pacifican music festival, in Cali, Colombia.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Ancestral spirit: can brewing a traditional moonshine help Colombia’s youth avoid gangs?

October 2023

  • A person lights a candle beneath five black banners showing the names and photos of people killed for defending the environment

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon

    Indigenous peoples in Colombia are being targeted and fragmented by armed groups who plunder the forest for gold and timber and take control of land

August 2023

  • Silhouette of a man sitting in shade of trees by a river

    ‘You have to sacrifice your life’: the drug runners of Colombia’s rainforests

    With few job prospects, young men in the jungle borderlands with Brazil risk everything in a marijuana trade that ultimately bankrolls dissident armed groups

July 2023

  • A view of the Serranía de Chiribiquete, located in the Amazonian jungle departments of Caquetá and Guaviare, Colombia, in 2018.

    Colombia deforestation plummets as peace efforts focus on rainforest

    Official figures show deforestation fell 26% in Colombian Amazon last year and 29% nationwide

June 2023

  • president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro (l) shakes hands with the commander of ELN, Antonio García, with the president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz Canel

    Colombia’s president and ELN guerrillas agree six-month ceasefire

    Talks in Cuba between Gustavo Petro and rebel leader Antonio García aimed at ending decades of conflict and follows Farc deal

February 2023

  • Members of the Colombian political party Union Patriotica attend a ceremony in Bogotá, Colombia.

    Colombia to pay reparations for role in extermination of leftwing party

    Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state allowed extermination of 6,000 Patriotic Union party members in 1980s

November 2022

  • Ex-guerilla María Sepúlveda at the Pondores camp in La Guajira.

    ‘They think we’re terrorists’: Colombia’s female former guerrilla fighters find no peace

    The 2016 ceasefire was supposed to help Farc’s ex-guerrillas reintegrate into society, but with little work and many having been murdered, fear stalks the camps

October 2022

  • The first commander of the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN), Antonio Garcia (left), and the Colombian government's commissioner for peace, Danilo Rueda

    Colombia to restart peace talks with the country’s largest active guerrilla group

    Start date for dialogue with the National Liberation Army will be announced after first week of November

September 2022

  • An armed soldier in military fatigues stands next to a wall of graffiti.

    Colombian leader’s promise of ‘total peace’ may prove too ambitious

    Little-known militia groups have surfaced to declare their willingness to strike peace deals – and reap ceasefire rewards

August 2022

  • Colombia's Vice President Marquez symbolic inauguration ceremony in her hometown in Suarez<br>People wearing masks depicting Colombia's President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez wait for the arrival of Francia Marquez for her symbolic inauguration ceremony in her hometown, in Suarez, Colombia August 13, 2022. REUTERS/Mariana Gre

    After 50 years, could Colombia finally have awoken from its nightmare?

    María José Pizarro Rodríguez
    With our new coalition government we have a chance at peace, says senator María José Pizarro

July 2022

  • The children of Colombia’s Indigenous Guard.

    ‘We must not show fear’: Colombia’s children learn to defend their way of life – a photo essay

    In Cauca province, where hundreds of environmental defenders have been killed since 2016, children aged five to 15 are taught non-violent ways to avoid recruitment into militias and protect their land

June 2022

  • Second Round of Presidential Elections in Colombia, Bogota, Cundinamarca - 19 Jun 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Chepa Beltran/LongVisual via ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (12992333ar) Left-wing president and vice-president elect of Colombia, Gustavo Petro (Left) and Francia Marquez (Right) give a speach at the movistar Arena in Bogota, Colombia after results showed left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro as the first left-wing president in Colombia winning with 11'281.013 votes to center Rodolfo Hernandez with a difference of 700.000 votes on June 19, 2022. Photo By: Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press Second Round of Presidential Elections in Colombia, Bogota, Cundinamarca - 19 Jun 2022

    The Guardian view on Colombia’s election: a chance for a change

    Editorial: The emergence of a progressive politics in a country traditionally in the grip of the right should be welcomed

January 2022

  • Brigitte Baptiste in her EAN University office last month.

    ‘We can transition to a better country’: a trans Colombian on diversity in ecology and society

    Brigitte Baptiste has a high profile as a transgender Colombian woman and an ecologist – in a country where both are targeted
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