Elizabeth Dickinson, senior analyst for Colombia at International Crisis Group: “President Iván Duque took office in 2018 amid a windfall of security and trust from rural communities. The peace agreement created a rare opportunity, first for the state to recoup its physical presence in former FARC areas, and second, for Bogotá to consolidate the goodwill of areas of the country that had lived for decades without police, medical care or state institutions. While it is undeniable that there have been advances implementing the accord, particularly in the reincorporation of the former FARC, these two major opportunities were largely lost and will not be easy to recover. Indeed, today those same indicators—security and goodwill in the countryside—are both moving in the wrong direction. In more and more rural areas, communities speak nostalgically about their freedom immediately after the peace accord, because now the presence of armed groups has once again subjected the population to displacement…”