The strife-torn South American nation of Colombia was rocked by anti-government protests which commenced in late April 2021 and lasted for roughly two months. By mid-May 21 road blockades had sprung up all over Colombia in response to President Ivan Duque’s government violently repressing the protests, impacting the economically crucial oil industry. By the end of July-2021, the deaths of 45 protestors at the hands of authorities had been recorded by peace thinktank Indepaz. That coupled with the government’s unwillingness to negotiate with the national strike committee caused civil dissent to escalate leading to nationwide blockades of roads which prevented the movement of supplies impacting the economy and oil industry. Those events came on the back of Duque’s unwillingness to fully implement what increasingly appears to be a failed peace agreement with Colombia’s largest leftwing guerilla group the FARC. It is the rapid growth of dissident FARC groups, those […]