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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Estuvimos @ICGlatam en Bruselas 🇪🇺 la semana pasada para presentar nuestra análisis de la paz total #Colombia

Mientras que la política busca reducir la violencia, lo que observamos en campo es un recrudecimiento del conflicto contra los más vulnerables👇

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Algunas observaciones de la visita con la Union Europea:

1) La implementación del acuerdo de paz 2016 sigue siendo la prioridad para la comunidad internacional - y la fundación sobre lo cual Colombia puede construir cualquier nueva paz, total o parcial Image
2) Hemos observado un incremento en violencia relacionado al control social en comunidades rurales: reclutamiento de menores, restricciones de movimiento, violencia de género.

Crucial que el gobierno prioriza los grupos más expuestos - comunidades étnicas, jóvenes, mujeres Image
3) Interés pero también preocupación por los posibles negociaciones con estructuras criminales.

El gobierno colombiano puede hacer más para aclarar el proceso - y el rol de la comunidad internacional - dentro el posible proceso. Image
Negociaciones sigue siendo crucial para resolver el conflicto, pero teniendo en cuanta las implicaciones no intencionales para civiles - lo cual es clave para mejorar la situación humanitaria.

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Mar 8
#Colombia’s bid to open talks with organized crime – part of a broader policy of dialogue with all armed structures in the country – is running up against a growing number of legal and political obstacles.

Short 🧵 on where talks stand with the largest group the Gulf Clan (AGC) Image
Total peace is, first and foremost, about reducing violence in the countryside.

AGC is key: they wield enough power to have shut down much of the Atlantic coast & several medium-sized cities during an armed strike last year.

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We @crisigroup have documented how the AGC recruits heavily in rural communities, imposes its will on local elected authorities, orders movement restrictions, & coercively coopts communities through a balance of material handouts and violent penalties.

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Mar 8
"Las mujeres son las que más riesgo corren. Viviendo en medio del conflicto, la violencia siempre nos va tocar," me dijo una lideresa Araucana

Hoy #DiaDeLaMujer, es momento de destacar los múltiples violencias que afectan a ♀️ en el marco del conflicto 1/
crisisgroup.org/es/latin-ameri…
Dentro el #reclutamiento de menores, "la tendencia es feminina" nos contó un oficial de seguridad.

Por engaño, por llenar sus estómagos, por la promesa de afectividad dentro un contexto donde no la hay en la casa, los grupos armados & criminales están llevando niñas a las filas Image
Las mujeres cabeza de hogar que tienen hijos que mantener se han convertido en objetivos de explotación por parte de grupos armados y criminales

“La dependencia económica genera muchos más riesgos”, explicó una joven lideresa en Quibdó. “hay que depender de terceros” Image
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Jun 19, 2022
Some reasons that @petrogustavo's victory today in #Colombia is historic. 🧵 These are not normative judgments, but realities after a half century of conflict and all that it entailed.

1. Fear & stigmatization of the political left is no longer a winning campaign strategy.
2. Day-to-day concerns now dominate #Colombia political debate - inequality, lack of opportunity, rural development. The conflict-and fear of its existential threat to Bogota-are moved to the back burner

3. Diversity is not a liability but an asset, politically.
4. Colombians voted for a candidate who promises to negotiate with the ELN and dismantle other armed groups, in consultation with the society.

5. An outsider won, but with the support of many familiar faces from the political class.
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Feb 7, 2022
When I asked a youth leader in Quibdó what daily life is like, she put it this way:

“Our challenge here is to make it through the day alive.”

In January alone, at least 14 youth were murdered in Quibdó, a city of just 120,000.

Brief thread🧵about our recent @crisisgroup visit
There are two conflicts in Chocó today.

One is ongoing since 2017: btwn ELN and Clan del Golfo for territorial control. The AGC is winning.

Two is even more alarming: the fight by the AGC to cement its presence in the fabric of society. Consolidation, purging of resistance.
Conflict 1:

The AGC’s push into Chocó, from its base in Uraba, Antioquia, has been ruthless and swift.

From a small presence in 2017, today communities say the group controls nearly every major urban center in Chocó.
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