Álvaro Uribe

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

Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice

18 July 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

On 27 June, the resounding confessions of four soldiers involved in the killing and cover-up of the death of a 23-year-old farmer disproved a vast campaign of disinformation disseminated by the party of former president Álvaro Uri [...]

Conversation between Francisco de Roux and Alvaro Uribe in a garden

Colombia

Colombia’s TRC sits down with five presidents, including critical Uribe

3 September 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Over the past two weeks, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission achieved a rare feat – to sit down with all five of the country’s living presidents, with a conversation with Andrés Pastrana this Tuesday and a seemingly imp [...]

Graphic extrajudicial executions patterns over time, in Colombia

Colombia

Colombia: the ‘false positive’ number that sets off a political storm

9 March 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has published key findings, including an incomplete and stunning number of civilians murdered by the military and passed off as rebels killed in combat – the infamous “false positive [...]