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).
How Covid-19 can derail reparations in Colombia’s Amazon
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating the entire Amazon basin, just as one of Colombia’s most ambitious redress programs for indigenous victims in this remote rainforest region is poised to kick off. A program that is the result of an unprecedented four-year conversation between 26 indigenous communities and the state.
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