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 Embassy in Bogota], or the [Colombian Embassy in Washington] to express your concern. A text you can use is at the bottom of this post.

ASOTRACAMPO have faced numerous threats and daily harrasment for standing up for their rights to equitable and fair treatment while they live on El Mirador. El Mirador is the last of 4 plots on the El Tamarindo land – the people living on the previous three have all been forcebly displaced.
The community of El Mirador, recently declared a “Refuge of Peace and Hope”, is made up of campesinos violently displaced from other parts of Colombia. There has been 2 deaths in the last year. For more information  on El Tamarindo please see: https://nacla.org/blog/2014/3/24/displaced-and-duty-free-el-tamarindo-colombia. read more…