Colombia: former Farc fighters who signed 2016 peace deal now live amid threats and assassinations: Former members of the Farc guerrilla army in Colombia who laid down their arms as part of a peace deal in 2016 are being forced off the land they were allowed to settle after they demobilised. More than 200 families …
What the coronavirus pandemic looks like for Colombia’s former FARC fighters: Communities all over the world are trying to manage the coronavirus crisis, with varying amounts of support from governments. We contacted people who used to fight in the guerrilla movement The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP), to see how they were coping. These …
A momentous peace deal with the FARC – so what next for Colombia?: The groundbreaking news reached me when I was in Bogotá in a meeting with the head of the Colombian Army: after more than 50 years of armed conflict, and four years of negotiations, the Colombian government and the leftist guerrilla group, the …