The new Safe Salvador plan combines several old plans from varying municipalities and incorporates them together on a national scale.

Thoughts on the utility of a truth commission; former mayor of Bogotá Antanas Mockus, a defender of the peace process with the FARC, thinks jail time may be necessary for some guerrilla leaders; and the problem of removing landmines are some of the issues coming out of Colombia. 

The capture of 93 kingpins of organized crime and the eradication of 37 drug gangs has led to reduced levels of violence. 

Sectors of society are losing their fear of denouncing immunity and calling out perpetrators of violence and corruption.  

A criminal network put out a contract for $200,000 U.S. on special prosecutors. 

Old patterns of crime, violence, repression, and security persist. 

Pundits squared off over the meaning of the latest attacks by the FARC after the end of its unilateral ceasefire. 

“Stop the war against the people,” demand the activists remembering the Halconazo; the solution to violence requires the construction of a “real democracy,” they say. 

If the U.S. had the same murder rate that El Salvador has, more than 218,000 people would die in one year. 

Landmines in Cauca marred ten victims in two weeks, while entrepreneurs wonder how to navigate the post-conflict.