In Colombia, the war never ends: in 2021 100 activists were already killed

ST. PAUL. Juana Iris Medina Ramirez was in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bullet killed her in cold blood; according to statistics, she is the hundredth activist killed in Colombia since the beginning of the year. Going backwards, the numbers increase: almost a thousand “social leaders” (trade unionists, environmentalists, representatives of neighborhood committees or rural cooperatives) have been murdered since the long conflict between the state and the Farc, the longest-running guerrilla warfare in Latin America.