Andean Group - March 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Colombia might have registered its lowest murder rate in four decades last year, but attention has been increasingly focused on the rise in number of murders of social leaders (a catch-all media term for representatives of trade unions, human rights organisations, environmental and land rights groups, community pressure groups and political parties). This would seem an unintended consequence of the peace deal signed in 2016 between the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group. In this March edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at this worrying tendency in Colombia.

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