Three weeks before his August 7 inauguration, Colombia's president-elect Abelardo De La Espriella is moving to dismantle the institutional architecture of the 2016 peace accord that ended decades of armed conflict with the FARC-EP — a framework built at enormous human cost and now threatened by a narrow electoral mandate. His early signals reveal not merely a change in policy but a change in philosophy: from treating violence as a political problem rooted in inequality, to treating it as a law-and-order problem to be solved by force. In a country where peace was never fully consolidated, the d
Colombia's President-Elect Signals Sharp Reversal on Peace Agenda
The policy shift threatens peace signatories' safety and rights, risks increased civilian harm in rural areas through militaristic approaches, and jeopardizes the reintegration of approximately 13,000 former FARC combatants.