New Series of Massacres Shake Colombia

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In mid-August 2020, Colombia was rocked by a series of massacres in the departments of Nariño and Valle del Cauca. They point to ongoing problems in the years since the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the FARC, and the heavy burden created by over seventy years of guerrilla warfare. The situation is complicated by the continued struggle of the ELN guerrillas, FARC dissidents who never surrendered, FARC factions that returned to irregular warfare, and drug trafficking networks spread across the country. The complex and regionally diverse state of affairs has generated government responses ranging from uneven to nonexistent. Analysts and commentators weighed in.

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