Gustavo Petro’s last act turns his exit from power into relic, resistance and electoral denial
On 20 July 2026, in the working class district of Ciudad Bolívar, in southern…
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EP08 – From the Caguán to the 2016 Agreement
Colombia has signed peace with its guerrillas more times than a country should ever…
The president-elect who dreams of being sworn in surrounded by generals left the chair empty facing the Army
On the seventh of July two thousand and twenty-six, Colombia’s Ministry of Defence had…
EP07 – Plan Colombia and Washington’s Footprint
A country does not become the stage for someone else’s war by accident. It…
Systematic violence has marked women from ethnic minorities in Colombia’s peripheries
Between 1958 and 2022, the Observatory of Memory and Conflict at the National Centre…
The active police force that owes Petro obedience was already enrolled in the campaign demanding his disobedience
On 7 July, Colombia’s president-elect publicly asked the Armed Forces to disobey Gustavo Petro…
EP06 – Paramilitarism as a Form of Government
In 1997, when the Castaño brothers brought the peasant self-defence groups of Córdoba, the…
Brussels eases oversight of its multinationals just as it demands more from the farmer who supplies them
The same coalition that broke the cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament to approve…
EP05 – From the Revolutionary Tax to Cocaine
The financial history of the Colombian guerrilla is not a chapter in the history…
The Tiger Rose to Power on Antioquia’s Votes Because Córdoba, Where He Grew Up Alongside Mancuso, Refused to Give Them
In Montería, capital of the department of Córdoba, a secondary school student named Abelardo…
The Lawyer Who Defended the Paramilitaries Reaches the Colombian Presidency with Ninety Decrees and the End of the JEP
On 24 June 2026, Colombia’s National Electoral Council proclaimed Abelardo de la Espriella president…
How Vote-Buying, Falsified Forms and Imperial Indifference Emptied Colombia’s Presidential Election of Meaning
Juan Rulfo imagined a village where the dead keep talking because no one told…