Juan Martinez, community leader of ASOTRACAMPO, of the El Tamarindo community, has this evening recieved death threats to his personal cell phone. The message also threatened Colombian activists who have accompanied ASOTRACAMPO. Please send an email to the [American...
Year: 2014
“Falsos positivos” en Colombia y el papel de asistencia militar de Estados Unidos
Hace unos días, un investigador de FOR, John Lindsay Poland, presentó en Washington, DC un informe en el tema de las ejecuciones extrajudiciales – los mal llamados “falsos positivos” - y el entrenamiento militar y apoyo financiero que ha recibido el Ejército Nacional...
The Rise and Fall of ‘False Positive’ Killings in Colombia: The Role of U.S. Military Assistance, 2000-2010
Our partner John Lindsay Poland has been working on a ground breaking work looking into the relationship between levels of US aid to Colombia, one of the highest recipients of US military aid and training in the world, and the incidence one of the most grievous forms...
Threat Against Our Partners
Our partner, renown human rights lawyer Jorge Molano, last week represented 3 trade-unions in court, in a successful case to have the Colombian State recognised crimes it committed against those unions from the Presidents office under ex-President Alvaro Uribe Velez....
Colombia: Approaching the Point of No Return
FOR Peace Presence focuses primarily on the negative effects of militarization and developmentalism on the human population of Colombia. Try as we might, Macaws have been really hard to accompany. This article, originally written for Capital Canal, then translated for...
Updates from the Pacific School of Religion Delegation
A few days ago we had a post (https://peacepresence.org/2014/03/24/pacific-school-of-religion-colombia-delegation/) with some updates on the Pacific School of Religion delegation. Here are some more from the last few days: Day 4 (Barranquilla): Never did I imagine that...
Pacific School of Religion Colombia Delegation
At the moment, we're hosting delegates from the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, showing them a little bit of Colombia, introducing them o our partners, and hoping to build connections. Lots of people wanted to come but weren't able, so we're able to offer the...
Displacement in El Tamarindo
El Tamarindo is a community located on the outskirts of Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast. The members of this community grow platano, keep animals, and try to get by in their village that they arrived at 12 years ago after being displaced by violence...