Colombia's sustained assault on protesters this week represents a form of warfare that indigenous and Black communities know all too well.

I came to Cali in late May, at the end of a month in which all of Colombia had been engulfed in antigovernment protests. No place had been hit harder by

(Written on June 1 by Anthony, a long-time resident of Bogota) On Sunday, the national strike committee decided that it would work to remove road blocks throughout the country as a measure of goodw…

With public university students (including those I teach at the Universidad Nacional in Medellín) and young people in...

At least 16 demonstrators and one officer dead after police fired at protesters and rammed crowds with motorcycles

Medellín is a crucible of narco-paramilitarism and state-sponsored terror, and the time between death threats and...

A selection of NACLA’s recent coverage of the deep inequality, human rights abuses, and government failures to adequately deliver on the promise of peace undergirding recent protests in Colombia.

Colombia’s national civic strike is paving the way for a rural-urban coalition of protesters and movements that together can take on President Duque’s right-wing government.

With its recent general strike and continued mobilizations, Colombia has joined the global wave of unrest. If the movement can resist right-wing president Iván Duque’s attempts at co-optation, it could lay the groundwork for the transformation of a society long characterized by inequality and militarized brutality.

Text and photos by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh On Friday 22nd of November a curfew came into effect and troops were deployed on the streets, here in Bogota. It was the first time since September 1977 that …