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Features / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
Colombia’s first left-leaning government has faced subversion from the murderous right-wing elite it deposed, but it has not stopped moving forward with the peace process and social reforms needed, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
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Features / 9 February 2024
9 February 2024
Democracy is under threat following a series of disruptive actions that Gustavo Petro's government has attributed to attempts by state institutions to undermine its progressive agenda or even remove it from office, writes NICK MACWILLIAM
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Features / 27 January 2024
27 January 2024
Right-wing forces continuously obstruct the progressive agenda of Gustavo Petro's government, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
RIGHT-WING DEATH SQUADS: Members of the ACCU, a component gr
Features / 19 May 2023
19 May 2023
A former leader of the clandestine anti-leftist forces that were responsible for thousands of murders is revealing the extent of the support his side received from the government, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Former rebel Gustavo Petro, left, his wife Veronica Alcocer,
Features / 20 June 2022
20 June 2022
NICK MACWILLIAM of Justice for Colombia on the huge challenges facing the country's first ever left government
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Adelante! / 1 December 2021
1 December 2021
NICK MACWILLIAM says the Ivan Duque government has not met its side of the bargain in the peace process and murders of trade unionists and environmental activists are rife in today's Colombia
Colombia peace court orders urgent measures to tackle killin
Features / 30 August 2021
30 August 2021
NICK MacWILLIAM spotlights the escalating violence and displacement from paramilitaries and other armed groups in the wake of Farc’s reformation as a political party
Anti-government protests led by the unions have faced extrem
Features / 11 July 2021
11 July 2021
A new study shines a light on the brutal state violence being inflicted on protesters in Duque’s Colombia, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
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Features / 6 February 2020
6 February 2020
Farc has accused the Duque government of intentionally impeding the peace agreement, including the re-integration to civil society of thousands of former guerillas, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Boys play football in front of a mural of an indigenous Colo
Features / 19 August 2019
19 August 2019
97 indigenous leaders and activists have been murdered in the past year, writes NICK MacWILLIAM