Colombia’s Truth Commission Is Highly Critical of U.S. Policy
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/world/americas/a-truth-commission-publishes-the-most-comprehensive-account-yet-of-colombia
Declassified documents used to compile the report, which were obtained by The New York Times, show that Washington believed for years that the Colombian military was engaged in extrajudicial killings and was working with right-wing paramilitaries, and yet continued to deepen its relationship with the armed forces.
The report, which was four years in the making and involved more than 14,000 individual and collective interviews, was a product of the 2016 peace deal between the Colombian government and its largest rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of #Colombia, or #FARC. It is meant to aid in healing after the war, and included a new estimate of the dead: 450,000 people, nearly twice the number previously believed.