Colombia

This ambitious new book co-authored by Jenny Pearce and Juan David Velasco Montoya, offers the most comprehensive analysis of the history of Colombian elites since 1886, the date of a Constitution that sought to put an end to the civil wars of the 19th century. Relying on an extensive database of Colombian elites, interviews with hard-to-access elites, and a broad review of secondary sources this 750-page monograph offers a sophisticated theoretical framework for understanding the consolidation of a socio-economic, political and cultural infrastructure that perpetuates inequality and violence alongside the rule of law and free-market capitalism in Colombia. In light of what they call “Colombia’s singularity”, the book also analyses the progress toward change and pitfalls made by Colombia’s first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro (2022–2026).

In her third blog in the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the sharpening political divisions which...

Jenny Pearce on De la Espriella's victory and her new book ¿Quién manda en Colombia?

Yuvelis Morales Blanco is part of the Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking (Colombia Free from Fracking Alliance), a collective that has been engaged in...

Global social movements rallied in Cartagena, Colombia, on 23-24 February, ahead of the second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, ICARRD+20

Sometime in early January 2005, a photograph of a lone man standing on a beach aiming a bow and arrow toward a camera, made...

ATRATO by Juan Covelli runs until 22 February 2026 at the V&A Photography Centre in South Kensington, London. Admission is free.

Following its action in removing Maduro, who will the Trump administration attack next? Colombia, Mexico, Cuba? US actions now follow the course outlined in its new National Security Strategy, crudely dubbed 'The Donroe Doctrine' by the man himself. Latin America risks being left isolated.

Colombia is at a crucial point as major projects led by Gustavo Petro’s government have hinged the country’s future on the promises of the energy transition. But this transition will not benefit people in Colombia by default. We hear from environmental defenders working across the coal corridor to protect their territories and ensure no one is left behind as mines close and renewable energy projects begin. 

The Trump administration has sent 12 military warships to Caribbean waters near Venezuela, including the world’s largest aircraft carrier, a submarine and four amphibious vessels for landing troops. US forces have killed 83 people in extrajudicial strikes on boats since September, claiming, without evidence, that these were transporting drugs. Donald Trump has now threatened land strikes on Venezuela. Grace Livingstone author of America’s Backyard, has spoken to Venezuelan and US experts about US military build-up.