Ten years after the signing of the Peace Agreement, the Acordemos Foundation brought together 39 community leaders from Valle del Cauca, Cauca, La Guajira, Cesar, southern Córdoba, Nariño, and Chocó in Cali, along with representatives from government institutions, oversight bodies, and international cooperation agencies, to take stock of the agreement’s implementation. Three key points emerged from the meeting: armed groups have grown stronger by diversifying their sources of funding—illegal mining, extortion—beyond drug trafficking; threats and murders targeting social leaders persist, with no effective preventive measures in place; and in the Pacific region, the problem is not a lack of land, but rather the absence of roads, education, and basic services. The leaders insisted that it is the social organizations that have sustained peace in these territories, and that the new government cannot start from scratch after ten years of accumulated experience.
