![]() ![]() ![]() These logics, present across Latin America from the early sixties onward, posited that every civilian in a territory of conflict had to pick a side: either collaborate with the military or be seen as a “communist/guerilla” and risk extrajudicial execution. military, blur the lines between civilians, state actors, and insurgents. If Colombia’s left is successful in the spring 2022 congressional and presidential elections (March 13 and May 29 respectively), it will be a miracle that defies the brutal logics of Colombia’s 52-year-long internal armed conflict a half century of U.S.-backed counter-insurgency and extrajudicial killings of civilian leftists.Īlthough peace accords were signed in 2016 and the principal guerilla group – the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – officially demobilized in 2017, wartime logics continue to color dynamics between the far right Colombian state and the Colombian left.Ĭold-War-era counterinsurgency logics, exported to the world by the U.S. Gustavo Petro, the runner up in Colombia’s 2018 presidential elections, is the leading candidate for a coalition of left of center political parties called the Pacto Historico (historic pact), which seeks to change Colombia’s status as a “center right” country, for the first time in its history. Now in Colombia, a country whose successive governments have ranged from hard to center right throughout its modern history, a social democrat and former guerilla militant leads in the presidential polls. From Bolivia and Peru to Chile and Honduras voters have called on left governments to build a more equitable future. Unión Patriótica supporters march in Florencia, Caquetá during the NovemParo Nacional.ĪCROSS LATIN AMERICA, voters have rejected the Washington Consensus of Neoliberal economics and military imperialism.
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