"If there weren't so many guns, there wouldn't be so many dead"
If weapons have only generated death and pain, why does militarization of territories continue?
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- Jun 23, 2022
- 6 min
Colombia Presidential Elections 2022 - Runoff for the Government of Life
By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On June 19, 2022, for the first time in its contemporary history, Colombia makes a government shift to the...
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
The Extradition of “Otoniel” to the United States is a Recipe for Impunity
The U.S. celebrated the extradition as a victory in their effort to dismantle drug trafficking. In reality, the only thing it is...
- Jun 3, 2021
- 9 min
Popular Resistance in the Age of Neoliberal War: The Case of Colombia
By Evan King and Pambana Gutto Bassett Since April 28th hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to demand the end...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Naya River Reportback
The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Colombia team shares their experiences in the Naya River.
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
The Hidden Pandemic: How U.S. Arms Sales Have Fueled Decades of Violence in Latin America
In 2017, following the fraudulent re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Hondurans took to the street to demand justice and the...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
U.S.-backed Anti-Narcotics Police Attack Indigenous Community
On Monday November 30th, helicopters buzzed atop the Nasa Indigenous community of El Descanso, in the Southern department of Putumayo.
- Jun 2, 2020
- 4 min
U.S Sends Troops to Fight Unarmed Poor People in Colombia
The United States Army is deploying a “company-sized” Special Forces team to support and advise Colombian anti-narcotics operations...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
Forced Eradications Continue Despite COVID-19 Crisis
Originally published by Contagio Radio Despite the isolation measures implemented across Colombia by President Ivan Duque to deal with...
- Feb 6, 2020
- 2 min
A Pocket of Resistance in Colombia's Countryside: Campesino Alternatives in Northern Cauca
Last week, our Colombia International Team, along with New England regional organizer Lee Schlenker, accompanied Leider Valencia of COCCAM
- Dec 24, 2019
- 3 min
The Fight for Justice Continues: Daira Quiñones Returns to La Nupa
Daira recalls her beloved village of La Nupa as a tight-knit Afro-Colombian community where people once moved freely and sang and danced...
- Dec 13, 2019
- 4 min
U.S Continues to Fund Forced Eradication as Small-scale Farmers Face New Wave of Assassinations
To date, 53 members of COCCAM have been murdered with each member of the national body threatened individually and collectively.
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
Urgent Action: Return of Aerial Fumigation with Glyphosate
“Aerial fumigation with glyphosate is an attack on Mother Nature and an attack on our food sovereignty” – AINI Women’s Association...
- Sep 11, 2018
- 5 min
Como EEUU creó su propia crisis de migrantes
por Carlissa Arrow El Rio Naya Durante décadas, Estados Unidos ha estado experimentando una crisis humanitaria en la frontera entre...
- Mar 3, 2017
- 0 min
- Feb 4, 2016
- 5 min
15 años después: El “gran éxito” del Plan Colombia
Por Lisa Taylor, Acción Permanente por la Paz Colombia Este artículo aparece en inglés en el periódico en línea Upside Down World. Este 4...
- Sep 14, 2015
- 11 min
Human Trafficking: not an isolated phenomenon
by Sue Davis (WFP Mexico Program delegate) “If you promise a girl heaven, you can take her to hell.” (Quote from a human trafficker...
- Nov 7, 2013
- 1 min
“Immigration Problem”
Spoken word by Hillary Watson (delegate of a WfP delegation in Colombia) about U.S policy with Latin America and the consequent...
- Sep 19, 2013
- 3 min
Impunity and the Dirty War in Mexico: a Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Hearing
Just two days after the pre-trial hearing of the Permanent People’s Tribunal: Repression for Political Reasons: a Permanent Strategy of...
- Jul 3, 2013
- 5 min
Veracruz shouts: Enough already! / Veracruz grita: ¡Ya basta!
(ver la versión en espanol abajo) El Colectivo por la Paz(Peace Collective) is the Veracruz chapter of the Movement for Peace and Justice...
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