The slow implementation of the final peace accord with FARC is generating fears that the financial costs and security concerns may be too much for the administration of President Santos.
The award-winning British photojournalist Malcolm Linton gave The City Paper a preview of his most recent essay: photographs of the final days of FARC.
In a letter, one prominent businessman recalls how he was sold into captivity and endured 10 months as an “economic prisoner” of the Colombian guerrilla.
As the Colombian conflict writes its final chapter, as journalists we must focus our profession on covering those stories that were sidetracked or shelved by the war.
As thousands of FARC combatants demobilize across Colombia, The City Paper’s director Richard Emblin recalls time among the guerrilla in the DMZ of the Cagúan.
After weeks of mass mobilization, the government confirms that ninety-four percent of FARC combatants have reached their Transitional Zones.
FARC’s chief negotiator joined the Colombian peace negotiators and Nobel Laureates in a forum that focused on the lessons learned of the historic peace process.
The Ministry of Culture will take 20 mobile libraries to remote regions of Colombia where FARC rebels are concentrating for the handover of weapons.
The state visit by France’s François Hollande reaffirms the peace accord reached in Colombia with FARC ahead of visit Tuesday to a guerrilla demobilization zone.
After 28 years, a French head of state arrives in the Colombian capital to strengthen bilateral ties and mark the beginning of Colombia-France Year.
A spate of targeted killings, the logistics of demobilization, and guerrillas deserting the FARC all continue to threaten peace.
A press conference during the height of the narco war, offers one journalist the opportunity to become a Colombian.
2016 was the year thousands marched in cities across Colombia to demand peace between the government and FARC. For many foreigners it was a chance to be part of an historical accord.
It couldn’t get any stranger than 2016, a year in which “change” swept across the world and Colombia with its peace came out relatively unscathed.
President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it gave a boost to an “impossible dream” of ending more than a half-century of conflict in Colombia.
The revised peace accord between the Colombian Government and FARC will be signed Thursday in Bogotá’s iconic Colón Theatre.