Wikileaks. Cable 237483 – IDL
id: 237483 date: 12/1/2009 20:59 refid: 09BOGOTA3483 origin: Embassy Bogota classification: SECRET//NOFORN destination: 09BOGOTA715|09PANAMA831 header: VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHBO| IDL
In Colombia, where historically impunity has predominated, a precedent for demanding accountability from perpetrators of gross human rights violations has been established.| E-International Relations
id: 237483 date: 12/1/2009 20:59 refid: 09BOGOTA3483 origin: Embassy Bogota classification: SECRET//NOFORN destination: 09BOGOTA715|09PANAMA831 header: VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHBO| IDL
Colombia had already proven to be fertile territory for Tren de Aragua's operations, expanding its criminal rents and offering refuge.| InSight Crime
On July 20, 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos promised the 9 million voters who had just elected him to his first term that he would build on the foundation created “by a giant, our President Álvaro Uribe.”1 He declared that Colombia could now look to the future with hope, thanks to the multiple successes that ... Read more The post A Skeptic’s View on the “Peace Dividend” appeared first on Americas Quarterly.| Americas Quarterly
On July 20, 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos promised the 9 million voters who had just elected him to his first term that he would build on the foundation created “by a giant, our President Álvaro Uribe.”1 He declared that Colombia could now look to the future with hope, thanks to the multiple successes that ... Read more The post A Skeptic’s View on the “Peace Dividend” appeared first on Americas Quarterly.| Americas Quarterly
El 17 de mayo, Seuxis Pausias Hernández Solarte, alias Jesús Santrich, uno de los dos líderes más destacados de las Farc, fue emboscado y asesinado en Venezuela por comandos enviados por el Estado colombiano. Santrich era miembro de las Farc desde hacía tres décadas, tras ingresar en las Juventudes Comunistas de Colombia cuando tenía 13...| ANTICONQUISTA
