Mobilizations in Colombia intensify in defense of life and peace

In Colombia, mobilizations have intensified demanding an end to escalating violence against social movements and political activists.

November 04, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

In Colombia, mobilizations have intensified demanding an end to escalating violence against social movements and political activists. The objective of is to draw the national government’s attention to the humanitarian crisis faced by Afro-descendant, Indigenous, human rights, peasant and social organizations. Meanwhile, ex-combatants of the FARC are demanding that the national government comply with the peace agreements signed between the former government and the FARC in Havana, Cuba, in 2016.