{"id":14291,"date":"2026-04-06T06:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/colombia-registers-most-violent-quarter-in-decade-with-35-massacres\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:24:05","slug":"colombia-registers-most-violent-quarter-in-decade-with-35-massacres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/colombia-registers-most-violent-quarter-in-decade-with-35-massacres\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia registers most violent quarter in decade with 35 massacres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Medell\u00edn, Colombia \u2013 There were 35 massacres in Colombia in the first three months of 2026, making it the most violent quarter in a decade, according to the Institute of Peace and Development Studies (Indepaz).<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian NGO\u2019s figures <a href=\"https:\/\/indepaz.org.co\/visor-de-masacres-en-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that 133 people had died in the massacres, which occurred across 34 municipalities in 17 departments.<\/p>\n<p>The grim figures come as Colombia faces a surge in violence related to its long-running armed conflict, almost ten years after a historic peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/latinamericareports.com\/colombia-registers-most-violent-quarter-in-decade-with-35-massacres\/14128\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medell\u00edn, Colombia \u2013 There were 35 massacres in Colombia in the first three months of 2026, making it the most violent quarter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,3461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerique-du-sud","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}