A New War Is Emerging in Colombia

A few years ago, one of the greatest risks of driving through Colombia’s southern Guaviare region was getting a tire hopelessly stuck in the mud along its tortuous, unpaved roads. A former stronghold of leftist insurgency, Guaviare shook off decades of rebel control in 2016, when Bogotá signed a peace deal to demobilize the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Rural residents looked on in hope and disbelief as police, rather than guerrillas, patrolled their towns. Peace, it seemed, had finally arrived.

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