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The US Embassy has issued an advisory saying that Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are expected to take place on October 7, 2024 across Colombia. 

The plan was ambitious from the onset, but talks with the country’s two most important criminal groups, the ELN and the EMC, appear to be unraveling.

There have been 173 cases recorded this year, compared to the 80 carried out during the same period in 2022 — and the real number may be even higher.

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, has pledged a clean break with what he sees as the confrontational, violent policies of his predecessor.

You can hear in the video (in Spanish) that his call was met with lots of skepticism, though some in the group urged calm, to hear him out. He continued...

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, set up to prosecute crimes committed during the armed conflict, announced that it was investigating the killing of 6,402 “disappeared” people, far higher than the initial figure of some 2,000 that they had originally received to...

On November 21, massive protests took place throughout Colombia; the largest at least since 1977, over 40 years ago. Though limited labor union strikes and university student protests are fairly common in Colombia, this was a public action unseen in Colombia for at least two...

The global organization’s Security Council reaffirmed its “full commitment” to the peace process in Colombia for an additional year through September 15, 2019.

The absence of three leading figures may be a sign of the internal fracture within the FARC party that has grown since the arrest of Jesus Santrich.

The visit will be a part of the secretary’s larger trip to South America, including stops in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.