For more than 50 years, Colombia has suffered a war that has killed nearly 450,000 civilians and displaced more than 8 million people from their territories. My father, Carlos Pizarro Leongómez — once a commander of the guerrilla movement M-19 — signed a peace agreement with the Colombian state after years of insurgency, and stood as a presidential candidate in 1990. Forty-seven days after the agreement had been signed, he was assassinated. This event changed my life, broke my family, and devastated our country.
Now at last, we may be nearing the end of our national nightmare. On 7 August, Gustavo Petro was sworn in as president of Colombia, joining Afro-Colombian land defender Francia Márquez at the helm of the country’s first progressive government.… Seguir leyendo »
The creation of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP in Spanish) as part of the 2016 Peace Treaty between the Colombian State and the guerrilla group FARC has seen its work much criticized over claims from certain powerful factions that it has a hidden agenda to free former FARC leaders and imprison senior military commanders.
Investigations carried out by the JEP have been a major success of the peace agreement and the process that followed. But most of the right-wing section of governing party Centro Democrático have been working to cut its funding and complicate the implementation of the peace deal.… Seguir leyendo »
Acarreados desde Soacha y la capital, 19 jóvenes terminaron en una fosa a 632 kilómetros de allí, muy cerca de la frontera con Venezuela. Sus ejecuciones ocurrieron entre 2007 y 2008, cuando miles de inocentes murieron lejos de casa disfrazados de guerrilleros. El caso se conoce como “falsos positivos”; una serie de ejecuciones extrajudiciales que fueron cometidas para cobrar beneficios. Aquellas 19 víctimas tenían dolientes; un grupo llamado “Madres de Soacha”, que nació justo después de los hallazgos. Las mujeres todavía piden justicia y verdad a los militares que presentaron a sus hijos como supuestas bajas en combate contra la guerrilla para presumir una victoria improbable en nuestra larga guerra interna.… Seguir leyendo »
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