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Mariana Palau

Mariana Palau is a freelance journalist based in Colombia

December 2020

  • Bogota, Colombia. 30th Sep, 2020. A man takes part in the elaboration of a mural on the false positives, in Bogota, Colombia, 30 September 2020. NGOs of victims of extrajudicial executions, known in Colombia as false positives, took part this Wednesday in the elaboration of a mural with the faces of several Colombian military commanders, that reads Who gave the Order?. Credit: EFE News Agency/Alamy Live News<br>2CX1BJE Bogota, Colombia. 30th Sep, 2020. A man takes part in the elaboration of a mural on the false positives, in Bogota, Colombia, 30 September 2020. NGOs of victims of extrajudicial executions, known in Colombia as false positives, took part this Wednesday in the elaboration of a mural with the faces of several Colombian military commanders, that reads Who gave the Order?. Credit: EFE News Agency/Alamy Live News

    The Audio Long Read
    The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero – podcast

    When the Colombian army defeated the Farc guerrillas, ending decades of conflict, General Mario Montoya was hailed a national hero. But then it was revealed that thousands of ‘insurgents’ executed by the army were in fact innocent men

November 2020

  • A billboard in Bogota about Colombia’s false positives scandal, asking ‘Who gave the order?’

    The long read
    The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero

    The long read: When the Colombian army defeated the Farc guerrillas, ending decades of conflict, General Mario Montoya was hailed a national hero. But then it was revealed that thousands of ‘insurgents’ executed by the army were in fact innocent men
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