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Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Colombia - Correspondent

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Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano is JusticeInfo.net's correspondent in Colombia. His work focuses on issues related to Colombia's peace agreement (such as rural development, drug policy, transitional justice and how victims rebuild their lives), ethnic minorities, climate change and biodiversity. He is also an editor at the Latin American Centre for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), a Carter Center mental health journalism fellow and wrote two books on the Colombian peace negotiation with the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT).

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Drawings of Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero, two Colombian writers.
Writing about crimes you can’t forget
14 January 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Two Colombian writers put language to horrors that could finally see justice this year in their country. The main characters of their novels are close relatives of victims – those for whom the crime continues long after it was com [...]
Trial for the recruitment of child soldiers in Colombia. Photo: Judge Lily Rueda of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announces the indictment of former FARC leaders. FARC leadership accused of war crimes over child soldiers
21 November 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The phenomenon of child soldiers was historically a less visible crime to Colombians than kidnapping. It is now at the centre of the second indictment by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) against the leadership of fo [...]
Trial of Colonel Mejía before the JEP in Colombia. Colombia’s first transitional justice adversarial trial opens
26 September 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
A highly symbolic trial opened last week in a small courtroom of a torrid city in north-eastern Colombia. Colonel Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez, an emblematic figure of the “false positives” scandal to most Colombians, stayed silent whil [...]
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, between war and peace. Photo: Petro delivers a speech on stage while 2 people hold a flag of the former M-19 armed group. Colombian president speaks of peace but glorifies armed struggle
18 July 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Flag, hat or sword: a former member of the M-19 guerilla, Colombian President Gustavo Petro is publicly glorifying symbols of his ex-armed group. An attitude decried by victims and criticized by many Colombians, as his government [...]
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Will the Drummond case be referred to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) in Colombia? Photo: Construction machinery at work in a coal mine.
2 July 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice Colombian transitional justice’s range of action over civilians allegedly involved in serious crimes during the internal conflict is quite legally limited. But one case could strike out: the case against two top executives of Drum [...]
Major Gustavo Soto Bracamonte and Colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón, both indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, plant a black sage sapling at the launch of the environmental restorative pilot project near Bogotá, Colombia.
16 April 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment After six years of work and three since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's special transitional justice tribunal – known as JEP – is finally getting closer to imposing its first sanctions. With the launch of an environmental r [...]
A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.
1 March 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also hi [...]
In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)
16 January 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence In 2023 the Special Jurisdiction for Peace issued groundbreaking findings on the crimes committed against Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia, especially for the Awá. It has notably included the war crimes of destru [...]
Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.
22 December 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice Why has Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva insisted before the United Nations that Colombia's transitional justice model is headed for failure - while, at the same time, he promotes the special tribunal's acceptance of former paramilit [...]
Eduardo Andrés Celis, an investigator for Colombia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is under pressure and forced into exile.
6 November 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: when seeking the truth leads to forced exile In June 2022, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its ten-volume final report and closed its doors two months later. For one of its investigators, Eduardo Andrés Celis, who agreed to speak to Justice Info, that [...]
Motoya faces JEP justice - General Mario Montoya reviews soldiers in Colombia
7 September 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
War in the time of General Montoya Colombia’s former Army commander Mario Montoya was indicted on August 30 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The retired general is accused by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of adopting “a de facto policy that prioriti [...]
The truth about a disinformation campaign against the transitional justice process in Colombia. Former military officials confess before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
18 July 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice On 27 June, the resounding confessions of four soldiers involved in the killing and cover-up of the death of a 23-year-old farmer disproved a vast campaign of disinformation disseminated by the party of former president Álvaro Uri [...]
Luis Fernando Almario accused by JEP in Colombia - Funeral of Diego Turbay (politician) over whom Almario is suspected of persecution.
22 June 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) presented a new indictment on 29 May. It is the first against a civilian politician, the first for persecution as a crime against humanity, and the first from the troubled prosecution secti [...]
Environmental justice in Colombia - High mountain páramo ecosystems under threat (Cumbal, Nariño).
9 May 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes In its latest indictment, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) insisted that "transitional justice is also environmental justice” and deemed ecosystem damage as a war crime. Three magistrates wrote partial dissenting op [...]
Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia
27 March 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims Two weeks ago, Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace indicted 10 former regional commanders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This second indictment against [...]
A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.
12 January 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims In a country where many, especially in the political arena, still tend to see Colombian society as divided in two almost irreconcilable and immovable halves, the very personal processes - away from the public spotlight - of victim [...]
An installation in memory of the victims of the La Gabarra massacre in Colombia: a colorful spiral made of candles, flowers and sheets of paper on which the names of the victims have been written.
12 December 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to Many victims in Colombia feel that the FARC are still reluctant to fully own up to many of their atrocities. Especially when it comes to crimes committed against leftist politicians and peasants. The 1986 murder of former Congress [...]
The new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, delivers a speech on a podium. In the background: the Colombian flag.
8 November 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Colombian president Gustavo Petro opens door to a new transitional justice system Right after taking office as president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro has announced his intention to try and negotiate peace with the country’s remaining armed groups and major organized crime cartels. But it is unclear what kind of t [...]
President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.
1 September 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes After the last four months major achievements in Colombia in dealing with the past crimes of the military, the new left-wing government now has to deal with the Armed Forces' and defence sector's reluctance to see extrajudici [...]
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