By Barbara Orozco Diaz On March 13th, millions of Colombians went to the polls to elect a new Congress and participate in the inter-party primary process to select the country's presidential candidates. As part of the 2016 Peace Agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government, 16 congressional seats were made available for victims of the armed conflict. This electoral cycle was centered around the implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord. It is also a referendum on the

By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On January 25, the President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque, signed into law the widely-rejected Citizen Security Law 2197 of 2022. Human rights organizations and members of the opposition have filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court against 13 of its Articles, claiming that it criminalizes social protest. On February 8, during the High Level Dialogues between Colombia and the United States, the U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affai