The question that opens this series is not why the guerrilla arose in Colombia. The right question is why it took so long. A century of peasant demands answered with fire, of reforms announced and then dismantled, of legal avenues opened and closed by those who administered them. What happened in 1964 in the mountains … CONTINUE READING →
On 31 May, more than 41 million Colombians are called upon to choose between three visions of the country that, presented in different rhetorical packaging, ultimately reduce to two elementary questions. Who pays and who benefits. Everything else, the speeches on security, the economy, healthcare, territory, is ornament. The next government will inherit more than … CONTINUE READING →
Colombia has a singular capacity to absorb horror without disturbing the order of things. It is not indifference; it is a collective anaesthesia that power reproduces and the media administer. On 27 April 2026, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announced in Apartadó that the number of victims of extrajudicial killings, the so-called “false positives”, … CONTINUE READING →