42COLOMBIA’S CYBERSECURITY PREDICAMENT

State making, strategic challenges, and cyberspace

Florent Frasson-Quenoz and César Augusto Niño González

Introduction

Since the late 1990s, Colombia has been growing its economy, has been an active protagonist of the 2015 Paris summit on climate change, has been able to sign an historic peace agreement with the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Popular Army) in 2016, and has been successful in its commitment to join the OECD (May 30, 2018). But, Colombia is still fueling its economy through extractive activities, more than a quarter of its people still live under the poverty line (26.7 per cent in 2017) (World Bank, 2019), it still has the largest number of internally displaced people ...

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