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...
Human Rights, Impunity and Justice
IFOR Delegation Arrives
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A Hunka Hunka Burning Blog
By Luke Finn As anyone who has eaten a hamburger in Colombia will know, simply adding good things, one on top of the other, often results in a whole that is somehow less than the sum of its parts. The standard combination of lettuce, and tomato, and onions, and...
Living the Resurrection in a Culture of Death
By Shannan Vance-Ocampo Presbyterian accompaniment in Colombia “In a culture of death, we choose to live the Resurrection.” This is the phrase we hear over and over again from our church partners in Colombia as they describe how to live in a country of rampant...
Protecting San José: Follow-up on combat
By Gina Spigarelli Thanks to everyone who participated in our urgent action appeal this Spring in response to combat in La Unión and other dangerous army practices in and near the Peace Community. While fighting is regularly and unnecessarily staged in civilian...
A Flurry of Activity for Peace in Colombia
By Gina Spigarelli On April 9, the National Day for Memory and Solidarity with Victims in Colombia, a massive march for peace was organized and carried out by the Marcha Patriotica social movement. According to many accounts, the march had more than a million...
State Retracts Peace Community Smear – But President Doesn’t Show
By FOR Colombia Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 10:41am By Emily Schmitz The brutal massacre that took the lives of eight civilians, including three children on February 21, 2005 in the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó, has become an emblematic case of government...
Criminal proceedings for top commanders in 2005 massacre get traction
By Susana Pimiento After eight years, the criminal investigation for the role of high military officials in the 2005 massacre in the San Jose Peace Community is finally getting some traction. On the eve of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s visit to...