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).
Colombia’s first transitional justice adversarial trial opens
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 while former subordinates recounted how he led them to disguise unidentified persons as false combat kills. With this case, the […]
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