JEP budget for 2020 to reduce by 30 percent

March in defense of the JEP, Bogotá, March 2019. Image courtesy of Deposit Photos. The budget for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) will...

Guzmán: The opposition will be defeated if it doesn’t unite

Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Photo courtesy of Oficina de prensa JEP Duque’s objections to the JEP presented the opposition parties...

The realities of child labour in Colombia

[caption id="attachment_30590" align="aligncenter" width="469"] Image courtesy of @ICBFColombia - Twitter.[/caption] Every year on June 12...

Recruiter sentenced in “false positives” scandal

[caption id="attachment_27379" align="aligncenter" width="467"] Protestors against the false positives murders that are believed to have left more...

Decentralizing startups for rural entrepreneurship ecosystems in Latin America

“Entrepreneurs are among the most overlooked assets for community change in rural areas nationwide,” says Dr. Michael W-P Fortunato, professor,...

Christmas after Christmas: How a Colombian ad exec helped demobilize guerrillas by advertising peace

In 2000, about 30,000 guerrillas were operating in Colombia and between 2006 and 2014 approximately 18,000 of them demobilized in part due to the...

Colombia announces $80 billion budget for 2018

On Wednesday Colombia’s congress approved a 235 trillion COP ($80 billion) budget for 2018 in an effort to retain its BBB credit rating. ...