The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines paradox as “one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases”, which is exactly the situation that Colombia is currently going through. The past 7 of august, Ivan Duque, the new ...
Latin America: A Region Shaped by Conflict : Before the emergence of independent Latin American states, the region saw roughly 300 years of Iberian colonization. Near the end of the 19th century, things started to look promising and Latin America ...
(By Sarah Quarmby ; Pulsamerica): The Colombian government and the FARC have recently implemented a plan encouraging farmers to abandon coca production in favour of alternative legal crops. Coca leaves are the raw material for cocaine and Colombia is one of ...
A Narco-State, by definition, is an area or government that is involved in drug trafficking directly or indirectly. It varies from having a figure as important as the head of state being the leader of a drug cartel to simply having ...
After nearly four years of negotiations, a successful resolution to Colombia’s peace talks is at hand. On June 23, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that his administration had signed a cease-fire with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better ...
After three years of negotiations, a peace deal between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government is within reach, and final negotiations to demobilize the militant group are set to begin in earnest in 2016. However, the ...
In Colombia, a Peace Deal May Not Improve Security Colombia may be on the verge of achieving a peace agreement with the largest of the country’s militant revolutionary groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Even if FARC ...
Renata Segura is an expert of Latin America. She currently works for the IPI Global Observatory. Since the peace process between the government of Colombia and the guerrilla group Fuerzas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) began in October 2012, perhaps the ...
Xenophobia seems to be a current trend in political campaigning. It appears to be Donald Trump’s Strength in the polls of the Republican Primary Elections in the United States, and it may be the only hope of the Venezuelan ...