the Colombian leftist rebel group National Liberation Army (ELN) imposed a month-long unilateral ceasefire as a reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. This came after the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection confirmed the first Covid-19 case in the country in early March. Still in March, one of our civil society informants in the remote region of Catatumbo, located at the border to Venezuela, sent us a picture of a pamphlet issued by Colombia's largest active rebel group. It announced severe "revolutionary punishment" to anyone resisting to the curfew the rebel group imposed, purportedly to contain the spread of the virus. Although this partic-abstract In Colombia's borderlands, the Covid-19 pandemic adds a third dimension to the double crisis of continued insecurity rooted in Colombia's ongoing armed conflict and the humanitarian emergency triggered by Venezuelan mass migration. Exacerbated through the border effect, the Colombian government's border closure and armed groups seeking to capitalize on growing uncertainty pose a severe risk to the country's peace agreement, regional stability, and hemispheric security.

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