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In Colombia, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a main historic component of the 2016 Peace Agreement and is due to close its doors in June 2022. The author considers its potential for long-term impact, in light of a study that maps the twin processes of formulation and implementation of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions.
January 11, 2021 Colombia’s late president Virgilio Barco personally approved the extermination of thousands of leftist political leaders and activists in 1986, according to local media. A source involved in the high-level plot told journalist Alberto Donadio that the military was in charge of the extermination of the Patriotic Union party after legendary Israeli intelligence chief Rafi Eitan proposed the holocaust to the president. Barco initially agreed to let the late Mossad executive, who captured former Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, lead the extermination campa...