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Trouble brewing for Colombia’s fragile peace deal as Covid hits rehabilitation projects
The pandemic has dealt a further blow to efforts to reintegrate ex-Farc fighters into mainstream society
Ex-Farc fighter Alexander Monroy brewing beer
Credit: La Trocha
Five years ago, Alexander Monroy was an urban militant living clandestinely on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá. He was a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), then the country’s most powerful leftist guerrilla group, fighting a half-century-long armed conflict that cost the lives of more than 260,000 people and internally displaced more than seven million.
But today, life cannot be more different: Mr Monroy can be found brewing craft beer at Bogotá’s Peace House, home to La Trocha, a microbrewery he set up with nine other ex-Farc combatants.