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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).

In Colombia, transitional justice is caught up in politics

One year after he came into office, Colombia’s president Iván Duque has failed to directly modify a central institution of the transitional justice process, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known as JEP. But the legal offensive continues, as an electoral strategy. While the JEP is struggling to function properly and build legitimacy.
By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
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