Para español, haz clic aquí Written by Nikki Drake, an accompanier on the FOR Peace Presence team. Published originally here in NACLA Report on the Americas. As he walked into the room, his face was tense and solemn. He had been here for over three months. His name is...
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8th of July 2000 – Massacre in La Unión / 8 de Julio de 2000 – Masacre de La Unión
On the 8th of July 2000, a group of paramilitaries executed six young leaders of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in the center of La Unión. The massacre happened four months after an FOR delegation had visited the Peace Community. After the...
Conscientious Objector Detained in Arauca
En español: Objetor de Consciencia Retenido en Arauca FOR Peace Presence is concerned about the rights and well-being of a conscientious objector who has been held against his will since April 7, 2014 in a military brigade in the department of Arauca. Background...
Urgent Action: Threats Against El Tamarindo
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...
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...