Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence In The Time Of COVID-19 – OpEd

By Danny Shaw

The human rights group Indepaz reports that 800 activists have been killed in the past three and a half years in Colombia, since November 24, 2016, the date the government signed “the Peace Accord” with the FARC.^[1] Taking advantage of society’s fear and distraction, and the demobilization caused by the...