Weekly Report - 22 June 2017 (WR-17-24)

Bogotá was rocked by a deadly bomb attack at the upmarket Centro Andino shopping centre this week. The authorities are treating the incident as a terrorist attack and have linked it to an attempt to undermine and destabilise the ongoing peace process that the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos is currently engaged in with Colombia’s guerrilla groups. But so far the authorities have failed to identify the perpetrators. This has raised questions about the state of public security in the country and whether this will improve as a result of the peace process.