public diplomacy

  • Colombian Government Trying to Buy Support for Peace Talks?

    Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings Recent revelations about Colombian taxpayers’ money being spent on publicity for the country’s ongoing peace talks with the FARC guerrilla group have raised questions about whether the government is trying to buy support for the slow-moving and controversial negotiations. According to Latin Correspondent, “David Barguil, the president of the Conservative Party, shared a

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  • Colombia: Is War Really More Popular than Peace?

    Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings In an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine last spring, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos lamented that his “rivals have been quite effective in sowing the seeds of skepticism around the peace process” that is currently underway between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels. “Waging war is much more popular than negotiating,”

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  • Weakened FARC Winning the Public Diplomacy War?

    Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, has been listed as a “foreign terrorist organization” by the U.S. State Department since 1997. Many Colombians also refer to the FARC as terrorists, including former president and current Senator Álvaro Uribe as well as the country’s armed forces. However, the

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Portrait illustration of Mike LaSusa

Mike LaSusa