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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).

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

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 is trying to negotiate peace with actual illegal armed groups.

By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)

Will the Drummond case be referred to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) in Colombia? Photo: Construction machinery at work in a coal mine.

The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice

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.

Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment

A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.

The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP

In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)

Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence

Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice

Eduardo Andrés Celis, an investigator for Colombia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is under pressure and forced into exile.

Colombia: when seeking the truth leads to forced exile

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

War in the time of General Montoya

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