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The Ghost of the Black Eagles: The Invisible Face of Politicide in Colombia

In the past few months, a number of threatening pamphlets, signed by the paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras”

Dec 2, 20204 min read

U.S.-backed Anti-Narcotics Police Attack Indigenous Community

On Monday November 30th, helicopters buzzed atop the Nasa Indigenous community of El Descanso, in the Southern department of Putumayo.

Dec 2, 20202 min read

5 Dead and 80 More Injured as Police Open Fire into Crowds of Protesters in Colombia

On Wednesday September 10th, after unarmed lawyer Javier Ordoñez was murdered by police, protesters took to the streets in cities across...

Sep 10, 20201 min read

U.S Sends Troops to Fight Unarmed Poor People in Colombia

The United States Army is deploying a “company-sized” Special Forces team to support and advise Colombian anti-narcotics operations beginning June 1, 2020. Essentially, they are helping Colombian security forces fight unarmed campesinos by destroying over 235,000 families' only form of subsistence, growing coca leaf. All of this in the midst of a global pandemic. According to the U.S Army’s Southern Command, “the team will work with host units in areas designated by the Colom

Jun 2, 20205 min read

Death Threats and Attacks Against Community Leader and Human Rights Defender, Juan Martinez

Read Original Spanish Version Here On the morning of May 11th, social leader, human rights defender and member of the board of directors...

May 18, 20201 min read

Colombian Indigenous Communities Call for Cerrejón to Stop Redirecting Scarce Water Resources

On 5 May 2020, Anglo American, a London listed multinational mining company (MNC) will hold their Annual Shareholders Meeting behind...

May 5, 20203 min read

Forced Eradications Continue Despite COVID-19 Crisis

Originally published by Contagio Radio Despite the isolation measures implemented across Colombia by President Ivan Duque to deal with...

Apr 2, 20202 min read

Internally Displaced Indigenous Peoples Denounce Re-victimization and Exclusion During Quarantine

By Mesa de Pueblos Indigenas Victimas del Conflicto Armado en Bogota In the face of institutional abandonment, the indigenous peoples...

Apr 2, 20204 min read

Collective Work for Mother Earth

By Quin Galvin Before leaving home to embark on a Solidarity Collective trip to Colombia, “Confronting Climate Change and Building Peace:...

Mar 27, 20207 min read

At Least Two Killed and One Injured in Northern Cauca as Attacks on Campesinos Continue in Impunity

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Condemns the recent attacks against Campesino organizers and human rights defenders in Miranda,...

Feb 17, 20203 min read

A Look Back at 2019

2019 proved to be one of the deadliest years on record for human rights defenders in Colombia. At least 250 social leaders lost their...

Jan 9, 20205 min read

The Fight for Justice Continues: Daira Quiñones Returns to La Nupa

Daira recalls her beloved village of La Nupa as a tight-knit Afro-Colombian community where people once moved freely and sang and danced...

Dec 24, 20193 min read

Paramilitaries Take Over Nueva Vida Humanitarian Zone

During the early morning hours on December 18th, residents of Cacarica witnessed the strengthening of the Gaitanista Self-defense Forces of Colombia's (AGC) paramilitary operations in the Nueva Vida Humanitarian Zone, according to a reports by the Inter-Church Commission of Justice and Peace, a Colombian human rights organization working to defend victims of the Colombian armed conflict. According to eye-witness testimonies, over the past few weeks, the two members of the AGC

Dec 20, 20192 min read

“Less-lethal Weapons”: How U.S. Companies Make Millions From Colombia’s State Repression

By Samantha Wherry The death of 18-year-old high school student, Dilan Cruz, at the hands of Colombia’s riot police on November 25th...

Dec 18, 20193 min read

U.S Continues to Fund Forced Eradication as Small-scale Farmers Face New Wave of Assassinations

To date, 53 members of COCCAM have been murdered with each member of the national body threatened individually and collectively.

Dec 13, 20194 min read

Urgent Action: Return of Aerial Fumigation with Glyphosate

“Aerial fumigation with glyphosate is an attack on Mother Nature and an attack on our food sovereignty” – AINI Women’s Association Witness for Peace expresses grave concern over the return to aerial fumigation in Colombia and the United States’ continued pressure to return to tired drug war policies. These policies have historically been linked to increased militarization and repression of rural populations. This poses a direct threat to our partners in Colombia who are worki

Oct 8, 20183 min read