Venezuela’s diaspora in Colombia is exposed to major threats that are left unaddressed by government authorities, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG). In a report, ICG exposed the dire human rights situation of the 2.5 million Venezuelans who have migrated to Colombia over the past decade. Colombia’s previous governments have done more than any […]
Colombia’s incoming government wants to decriminalize illicit drugs despite the government of the United States, which insists on a disastrous prohibition policy. The effort to end the prohibition of illicit drugs in Latin America is one of President-elect Gustavo Petro’s multiple proposals that seek a radically new drug policy in the region. The new government, […]
The impending exit of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque should allow Colombia Reports to recover from four years of repression. Duque’s increasingly aggressive cracking down on the freedom of the press has made it virtually impossible for an independent website like this to report on Colombia, including this one. Duque reverting freedom of the press to […]
The government of Colombia’s President-elect Gustavo Petro will seek to normalize broken relations with neighboring Venezuela after taking office on August 7. This was announced by incoming Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva after a meeting with his future counterpart Carlos Faria in the Venezuelan border city of San Antonio. Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro closed the […]
One of Colombia’s most wanted guerrilla leaders has been killed in a military operation, the country’s defense minister said Friday. According to Defense Minister Diego Molano, “Ivan Mordizco” and at least nine other members of the “Southeastern Bloc” were killed after their camp in the southern Caqueta province was bombarded. The bombardment and the subsequent […]
Optimism in urban Colombia surged after elections put a coalition of liberals and progressives in power, a poll that was released on Wednesday indicated. According to pollster Invamer, optimism about the future of the country went from 9% in May to 23% this month. Pessimism about the future of the country dropped from 84% to […]
A sniper assassinated one of the reintegration chiefs of now-defunct guerrilla group FARC who had been denouncing death threats in southern Colombia since 2020. Ronald Rojas was shot dead by a sniper while he was at his farm in Palermo, a municipality in the southern Huila province. Rojas resigned from the former guerrillas’ political party […]
It was, said Francia Márquez Mina, a victory for “the nobodies”. Speaking in Bogota on June 19 after the results of the Colombian presidential election were announced, the newly elected vice-president struck a jubilant note after becoming the first black woman to be elected to the office – on a ticket with former guerrilla fighter […]
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque suggested on Saturday that FARC dissident leader “Ivan Márquez” was killed in Venezuela. In a tweet, Duque said that military intelligence was “verifying” whether the former political chief of the now-defunct guerrilla group FARC was killed in the neighboring country. Marquez founded the “Segunda Marquetalia” group in 2019 after abandoning the […]
Colombia’s Truth Commission recommended radical policy changes to prevent a repetition of violence and armed conflict that left the country traumatized. The commission published its long-awaited report on Colombia’s armed conflict and violence between 1958 and 2016 after a thorough study of more than three years. Apart from an analysis on the causes of the […]