De la mano del avance de la presencia militar estadounidense en la región, continúa la militarización del territorio colombiano

If weapons have only generated death and pain, why does militarization of territories continue?

By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On June 19, 2022, for the first time in its contemporary history, Colombia makes a government shift to the political left, giving way to the "Government of the People, the Government of the No ones, the Government of Life", in the words of the President and Vice President-elect. Results Final election results in the 2022 Presidential Elections in Colombia In the second presidential election following the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016, Colombians h

The U.S. celebrated the extradition as a victory in their effort to dismantle drug trafficking. In reality, the only thing it is dismantling is victims’ right to the truth. By Evan King Fransisco Miguel Soto Lopez, a 54 year-old plantain seller from the department of Cordoba in northwestern Colombia, was on his way to the town’s central market when suddenly two armed men arrived on a motorcycle. The men were members of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a

By Evan King and Pambana Gutto Bassett Since April 28th hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to demand the end...

The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Colombia team shares their experiences in the Naya River.

In 2017, following the fraudulent re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Hondurans took to the street to demand justice and the...

On Monday November 30th, helicopters buzzed atop the Nasa Indigenous community of El Descanso, in the Southern department of Putumayo.

The United States Army is deploying a “company-sized” Special Forces team to support and advise Colombian anti-narcotics operations beginning June 1, 2020. Essentially, they are helping Colombian security forces fight unarmed campesinos by destroying over 235,000 families' only form of subsistence, growing coca leaf. All of this in the midst of a global pandemic. According to the U.S Army’s Southern Command, “the team will work with host units in areas designated by the Colom

Originally published by Contagio Radio Despite the isolation measures implemented across Colombia by President Ivan Duque to deal with...

Last week, our Colombia International Team, along with New England regional organizer Lee Schlenker, accompanied Leider Valencia of COCCAM

Daira recalls her beloved village of La Nupa as a tight-knit Afro-Colombian community where people once moved freely and sang and danced...

To date, 53 members of COCCAM have been murdered with each member of the national body threatened individually and collectively.

“Aerial fumigation with glyphosate is an attack on Mother Nature and an attack on our food sovereignty” – AINI Women’s Association Witness for Peace expresses grave concern over the return to aerial fumigation in Colombia and the United States’ continued pressure to return to tired drug war policies. These policies have historically been linked to increased militarization and repression of rural populations. This poses a direct threat to our partners in Colombia who are worki

por Carlissa Arrow El Rio Naya Durante décadas, Estados Unidos ha estado experimentando una crisis humanitaria en la frontera entre...

Por Lisa Taylor, Acción Permanente por la Paz Colombia Este artículo aparece en inglés en el periódico en línea Upside Down World. Este 4...

by Sue Davis (WFP Mexico Program delegate) “If you promise a girl heaven, you can take her to hell.” (Quote from a human trafficker...

Spoken word by Hillary Watson (delegate of a WfP delegation in Colombia) about U.S policy with Latin America and the consequent...

Just two days after the pre-trial hearing of the Permanent People’s Tribunal: Repression for Political Reasons: a Permanent Strategy of...