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Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Colombia

Correspondent

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).

Motoya faces JEP justice - General Mario Montoya reviews soldiers in Colombia

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 prioritised deaths as the only real indicator of military success”, planting the seeds of the “false positives” scandal. Will […]

By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano, our correspondent in Colombia

The truth about a disinformation campaign against the transitional justice process in Colombia. Former military officials confess before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).

Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice

Luis Fernando Almario accused by JEP in Colombia - Funeral of Diego Turbay (politician) over whom Almario is suspected of persecution.

Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician

Environmental justice in Colombia - High mountain páramo ecosystems under threat (Cumbal, Nariño).

Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes

Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia

Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims

A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.

How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims

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.

Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to

The new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, delivers a speech on a podium. In the background: the Colombian flag.

The Colombian president Gustavo Petro opens door to a new transitional justice system

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.

Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes

Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings

Grave of a missing and unidentified person in Colombia (inscription:

In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter

Alejandro Valencia and Carlos Ospina speak about the truth in Colombia

Colombia: Tensions rise ahead of the Truth Commission’s report

Colonel Rubén Darío Castro speaks to victims of

Colombia: The day 10 army officials accused of false positives faced their victims

Women hold a banner that reads in Spanish:

First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims

A hand emerging from the ground holds a ballot in the colors of the flag of Colombia

Colombia wagers on political participation as a form of redress

Colombian army soldiers look at the bodies of dead FARC rebels

Colombia: 21 Army officials own up to war crimes and crimes against humanity

Iván Duque and Karim Khan pose with a document in hand. A painting of Simon Bolivar is displayed behind them.

The ICC backs Colombia’s transitional justice model

Rodrigo Granda surrounded by a crowd of people escorting him through Bogota airport in Colombia

Rodrigo Granda: the diplomatic storm that shook Colombia

Former FARC members walk down a road dressed in white and carrying white flags.

Colombia’s TRC gets an extension to jump over the elections