Bogota
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 20 April to 26 April 2014. On Thursday, the 24th round of peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC commenced in Havana. The previous round ended on April 11 without an agreement on the issues of illicit crop cultivation and drug trafficking, which are expected to
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 6 April to 12 April 2014. Colombia commemorated the National Day of Victims this week, remembering those who have suffered in the country’s decades-long internal armed conflict between left-wing guerrillas, right-wing-paramilitaries, criminal gangs and state security forces . Many citizens took the opportunity to reflect on the
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 30 March to 5 April 2014. The preliminary round of Colombia’s presidential elections will be held on May 25 of this year. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of votes in the first election, a run-off between the two top-finishing candidates will take place on June
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 23 March to 29 March 2014. Days after President Juan Manuel Santos rejected an order from the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to reverse the decision to remove the now-former mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro, from office, he and interim mayor Rafael Pardo announced
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