La Vía Campesina | "Ceasefire" Bulletin | III Edition 2020

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LA VIA CAMPESINA: COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS CHARACTERIZED BY NON-COMPLIANCE AND SURGE IN VIOLENCE

November 24th was the fourth anniversary of the day when the Colombian State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) signed an agreement to end the oldest armed conflict in Latin America.The hope that this event had raised among Colombian people and the whole world four years ago has vanished since then.Read more ... [3]

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COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS: FORUM IN NOVEMBER 2020 CALLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM

On November 24th, La Via Campesina organized a forum to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia with the objective of sharing reflections on the state of implementation of the Agreement, as well as the challenges facing the peace-building process in the country. Read more ... [4]

COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS: THE ABANDONMENT OF THE PNIS AND THE RESUMPTION OF THE "WAR ON DRUGS"

Undoubtedly, the economic, political and social dimensions of drug trafficking have been one of the main factors favoring the persistence of the armed conflict in Colombia. The Peace Agreement includes a chapter aimed at transforming the logic of the failed war on drugs with comprehensive programs to transform the most affected territories, hitting the strongest links in the chain and adopting a differentiated penal treatment for the weakest sectors such as growers and consumers; _INTEGRATED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE SUBSTITUTION OF ILLICITLY USED CROPS – PNIS, __contemplated in point 4 of the Peace Agreement._ Read more ... [5]

COLOMBIA: A PEACE AGREEMENT THAT IGNORES DIFFERENTIAL APPROACHES

Reports from various entities monitoring the peace process agree that the degree of implementation of the whole Agreement is limited to the legislative execution of the commitments, there is little progress in actual delivery of the transformative challenges of the Agreement. The implementation of the chapters on gender and ethnicity, to date, follows the same logic and there's only advancements in normative and enunciative matters, but none at all has been made in the development of policies containing concrete actions.Read more ... [6]

COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS UPDATE: COMPREHENSIVE RURAL REFORM – ONLY 4% COMPLETION!

Since the signing of the Peace Agreement on November 24, 2016, the normative development of the Comprehensive Rural Reform - CRR has been limited to the creation of the Development Programs with Territorial Approach - PDETs, the creation of the Land Fund, the adoption of the procedure for the Formalization of Property, the initiation of the Multipurpose Cadastre, and the adoption of 6 National Plans for the Comprehensive Rural Reform - PNCRR. Read more ... [7]

COLOMBIA PEACE PROCESS UPDATE: "IF WE SPEAK, THEY KILL US, IF WE STAY QUIET, THEY KILL US TOO"

"If we speak, they kill us, if we stay quiet, they kill us too", this is the statement of one of the Minga representatives who arrived in Bogotá on October 17.

Close to 10,000 indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendent people travelled around 600 km from their territories to the capital, their objective: to call for respect for the lives of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and peasant communities, for their right to land tenure and for the implementation of the Peace Agreement. In the words of an indigenous reservation leader:

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PRESS RELEASE: CLOC DENOUNCES ARBITRARY ARRESTS OF PEASANT LEADERS IN COLOMBIA

The intensification of violence and stigmatisation of social movements in South America has increased in an abysmal fashion. The pandemic has become an occasion for further dispossession, stigmatisation, and violence in countries like Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia, and in general, the majority of countries in the lower region. These actions are meant to stomp out resistance through the extermination of peasants, students, workers, and social organisations more broadly. Read more... [9]

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