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.
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- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
5 Dead and 80 More Injured as Police Open Fire into Crowds of Protesters in Colombia
On Wednesday September 10th, after unarmed lawyer Javier Ordoñez was murdered by police, protesters took to the streets in cities across...
- Aug 13, 2020
- 3 min
The U.S. is financing illegal hydroelectric projects in Honduras with taxpayer dollars
On July 21st, the newly created U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced that it signed an agreement with the...
- 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...
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Colombian Indigenous Communities Call for Cerrejón to Stop Redirecting Scarce Water Resources
On 5 May 2020, Anglo American, a London listed multinational mining company (MNC) will hold their Annual Shareholders Meeting behind...
- 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...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 4 min
Internally Displaced Indigenous Peoples Denounce Re-victimization and Exclusion During Quarantine
By Mesa de Pueblos Indigenas Victimas del Conflicto Armado en Bogota In the face of institutional abandonment, the indigenous peoples...
- Mar 20, 2020
- 7 min
COVID-19 Crisis in Honduras: What it Means for our WfP-SC Team and Partners on the Ground
By Corie Welch On Sunday night, I made the extremely difficult decision to leave Honduras and return to the United States to continue my...
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
At Least Two Killed and One Injured in Northern Cauca as Attacks on Campesinos Continue in Impunity
Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Condemns the recent attacks against Campesino organizers and human rights defenders in Miranda,...
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
New Paramilitary Offensive Threatens to Displace Communities in Chocó
On December 31st, 2019, as residents of Pogue, Bojaya, celebrated the new year, between 300 and 600 paramilitaries arrived to exert...
- 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 20, 2019
- 2 min
Paramilitaries Take Over Nueva Vida Humanitarian Zone
During the early morning hours on December 18th, residents of Cacarica witnessed the strengthening of the Gaitanista Self-defense Forces...
- Dec 18, 2019
- 3 min
“Less-lethal Weapons”: How U.S. Companies Make Millions From Colombia’s State Repression
By Samantha Wherry The death of 18-year-old high school student, Dilan Cruz, at the hands of Colombia’s riot police on November 25th...
- 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.
- Dec 10, 2019
- 3 min
Impunity for Intellectual Authors Means No Justice for Berta Cáceres
Still no justice for Berta as seven material authors receive sentencing for her murder
- Aug 6, 2019
- 6 min
No Peace in Sight: Indigenous Colombians Face Growing Levels of Forced Displacement
By Samantha Wherry and Evan King When traveling on a boat to Pichima Quebrada, a small Wounaan indigenous community located along the...
- 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...
- May 15, 2018
- 14 min
La Lucha Es Constante: Updates from Pajuiles
Members of the COBRAS, armed with riot gear and tear gas, stand guard outside the encampment at Pajuiles, May 3, 2018. The banner above...
- Apr 13, 2018
- 5 min
Jailed Before He Was Born
Albertina López Melgar, a member of the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ, for its initials in Spanish) has emerged in the...
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