Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, barely beat out a political outsider millionaire in a runoff election on Sunday. He is now Colombia's first leftist president
240 pounds of cocaine hydrochloride worth millions of dollars, apparently being transported illegally, along with a man they suspected was pretending to be ill.
The move has faced criticism on various grounds, with civil society groups and NGOs voicing concern that the SFAB’s arrival will bring an intensification of military coca eradication efforts.
A major factor driving this remobilisation has been the Colombian government’s failure to protect former combatants from violence, with at least 77 assassinated in 2019 alone.
Segunda Marquetalia is the most prominent group of former Farc militants to have remobilised since the 2016 peace agreement between the Farc and the Colombian government.
Following the Operation Gideon attacks on Venezuela in May, reportedly launched from Colombian territory, the Venezuelan armed forces have intensified defensive preparations.
all the information and related background to the entry, arrival and permanence of the Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) of the US army to Colombia’s senate.
Bogotá’s strategy proves successful, whether its residents are willing to enter lockdown once more, and what the economic impact on the city will be, both for businesses and individual livelihoods.
The effectiveness of military justice in Colombia, and the consequences for victims of human rights abuses, especially those from marginalised or minority communities.
This increasing violence matched the UN’s as he called for improved implementation of the peace accord, and claimed that the increasingly militarised response.
