US EditionAs U.S. Support Vanishes, a Nation’s Postwar Peace Teeters - Overpasses For America
- Colombia faces worsening violence and displacement amid the loss of U.S. Support that had backed its postwar peace efforts in 2025.
- This crisis follows the Trump administration's global freeze on foreign aid, including dismantling U.S.A.I.D. And cutting funding critical to Colombia's peace processes.
- U.S. Assistance had supported land titling to former coca farmers, war crimes prosecutions by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, and aid for over 2.8 million Venezuelan migrants in Colombia.
- León Valencia said the aid withdrawal "puts wind in the wings of armed groups," while Judge Alejandro Ramelli warned that slowed court work risks delaying justice for tens of thousands of victims.
- The reduction of U.S. Funding threatens Colombia’s fragile peace by hampering nonprofits, security forces, and judicial mechanisms vital for reconciliation and rural stability.
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As U.S. Support Vanishes, a Nation’s Postwar Peace Teeters - Overpasses For America
When Colombia signed a landmark peace agreement with rebels in 2016, it was celebrated internationally for ending a war that had ravaged much of the country for decades. The United States bolstered the peace efforts, helping displaced farmers return to their land and helping prosecute war crimes. Now, support from the U.S. government — the agreement’s biggest foreign economic backer — has vanished. As the Trump administration has withdrawn most …
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TotalNews Agency USA EspañolHow the end of USAID threatens Colombia’s fragile peace
By Jorge ValenciaWhen Colombia signed a historic peace agreement with the rebels in 2016, it was celebrated internationally for ending a war that had ravaged much of the country for decades.The U.S. supported the peace efforts, helping displaced peasants return to their lands and helping to pursue war crimes.Now, the support of the U.S. government—the largest foreign economic support of the agreement—has disappeared.
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