Public Statement on the Newest Version of the Peace Accords Between the Colombian Government and the FARC Versión en Español November 18, 2016. In the aftermath of the narrow “no” vote against the peace accords signed by the Colombian government and the FARC...
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Comunicado sobre el Acuerdo de Paz
Organizaciones internacionales de sociedad civil instan a los colombianos a finalizar y aprobar un acuerdo final que ponga a las víctimas en el centro English version 18 de noviembre de 2016. A raíz de la estrecha victoria del "no" contra los acuerdos de paz firmados...
Hope in the Midst of a Violent Crisis: Life in Buenaventura´s Urban Humanitarian Space
By Nikki Drake, accompanier at FOR Peace Presence Article originally published on Upside Down World An alarm of lively music starts each day around 6am, and the street slowly comes to life. Sweetened coffee percolates in houses, fishermen head out in their small...
Empires of Gold and Colombian Extractivism Today
By Luke Finn Before there was Colombia, there was the extractive industry. The legend of El Dorado stems from a Spaniard, Juan Rodriguez Freyle, watching a High Priest of the Muisca getting covered in gold dust and jumping in Lake Guatavita, near Bogotá, in a...
Aerial Fumigation and its Discontents
By John Lindsay-Poland Once the signature program of the U.S. drug war in Latin America, aerial fumigation of coca leaf crops is finally in deep trouble. Fumigation’s crisis comes in a moment when coca growers, like other farmers throughout Colombia, face an economic...
Assistance by Proxy
By Arlene B. Tickner The fact that Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Colombia [August 11] has gone by almost without notice generates the (false) sensation that Colombia’s close association with the United States has passed. Nevertheless, the listlessness of...
Colombia: “It’s Unacceptable that the Actions of a Few Impact the Lives of the Majority”
By Mabel Durán-Sánchez Since the beginning of the global economic downturn in 2008 governments around the world have faced protests led by popular movements. Recently there have been mass protests close to home, in Brazil. These protests were initially sparked by...
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...