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Weekly Report - 05 November 2020 (WR-20-44)
COLOMBIA: Former Farc guerrillas stage protest march
Demobilised members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) staged silent protests in Plaza de Bolívar, the main square in Bogotá on 1 November. They arrived in the Colombian capital after setting off on a march from reinsertion and training centres (ETCRs) scattered around Colombia. The purpose of the march was to protest against the failure of the right-wing Centro Democrático (CD) government led by President Iván Duque to implement the provisions of the peace accord struck with the Farc in 2016. They succeeded in extracting a series of concessions from the Duque administration. But, pointedly, their arrival coincided with the presentation of a proposed national referendum by the CD’s founding leader, former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), that seeks to dismantle the cornerstone of the peace accord: the transitional justice system (JEP).
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