Duque defunds Colombia's Truth Commission

by Adriaan Alsema February 20, 2019

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has defunded the Truth Commission, a key element of the country’s peace process, according to one of the commission members.

The defunding is the latest in a long series of actions that are feared to undermine the peace process that was begun by Duque’s predecessor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos.

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In an interview with newspaper El Espectador, sociologist Alfredo Molano said that the government cut 40% budget from the truth commission’s budget.

According to Molano, the cut would have serious consequences for his ability to investigate the war in the Orinoco and Amazon regions that make up almost half the country in the southwest.

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https://colombiareports.com/duque-defunds-colombias-truth-commission/

Clearly Duque wants to get back to war and start sucking up more of the over $10,000,000,000.00 US taxpayers' money lavished upon the right-wing Colombian government's war after 2000, until a couple of years ago. Doesn't take a sober, conscientious person long to figure him out.