History of the Guerrilla in Colombia
Colombia does not need another account of the guerrilla. The archives exist, the commissions too, and the bibliographies filling entire shelves that nobody reads because they are written for those who already know what they are looking for. What is missing is something different, a reading that does not apologise for having a position, that does not confuse neutrality with rigour or equidistance with honesty, and that treats the Colombian armed conflict for what it is, a logical and predictable consequence of a social order that concentrates land, captures institutions and punishes those who protest.
El largo fuego is a documentary series in nine episodes. It covers the period from the banana workers’ massacre of 1928 to the current state of the fractured peace in 2026. It is not an exhaustive chronology or an academic assessment. It is a dissection. Each episode examines a link in the chain that turned peasant grievance into armed insurgency, insurgency into criminal economy, and criminal economy into an argument for militarising everything that moves.
Episodes are published every Saturday. This space gathers the complete index and is updated with each instalment. The reader may enter at any point, but the logic of the series is cumulative, what is understood in episode nine depends on what was built in the first.
G.S.
The sources for this series are official documents, judicial archives, reports from international organisations, cross-referenced press records and academic publications. Where a claim could not be independently verified, it is noted as such. The series began publishing on 30 May 2026, with one episode every Saturday.
Updated May 24, 2026
