Ten years after the signing at the Colón Theatre, the war has not resumed and it has not ended either. It has fragmented into parallel processes, some judicial, some military, nearly all unfinished. The accord meant to close a century of agrarian conflict remains open on its hardest points, while the country elects a government … CONTINUE READING →
Colombia has signed peace with its guerrillas more times than a country should ever need to. Each signature repeats the same gesture, the promise of land that will finally change hands, and each time the land stays almost exactly where it was. Eighteen years separate the Caguán clearance from the Teatro Colón signing, two generations … CONTINUE READING →
A country does not become the stage for someone else’s war by accident. It becomes one because someone, in an office far from the geography about to be destroyed, decides that territory serves a purpose larger than its own. In 1999, Colombia stopped being the sole owner of its internal conflict. What had been born … CONTINUE READING →