After 11 years of resistance, injured GM workers still awaiting a response from the United States
By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On August 2, 2011, the Association of Injured and Former Workers of General Motors Colmotores (ASOTRECOL) set up a...
top of page
Search
Jun 23, 20226 min read
Colombia Presidential Elections 2022 - Runoff for the Government of Life
By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On June 19, 2022, for the first time in its contemporary history, Colombia makes a government shift to the...
Jun 1, 20223 min read
10 years of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Buenaventura: forced displacement increases
In May, the US-Colombia free trade agreement marked its 10th anniversary. On this anniversary, a humanitarian mission was organized in...
Apr 25, 20225 min read
Members of US Progressive Caucus met with President Xiomara Castro of Honduras
By Julián Arturo On March 19, 2022, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective in collaboration with SOA Watch, CISPES, and other...
Jun 3, 20219 min read
Popular Resistance in the Age of Neoliberal War: The Case of Colombia
By Evan King and Pambana Gutto Bassett Since April 28th hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to demand the end...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Paramilitaries Threaten Brink’s Workers in Bogotá
By Cruz Bonlarron Martinez The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective recently received reports that Brink’s workers affiliated with the...
Dec 19, 20202 min read
Drummond President on Trial for Alleged Paramilitary Ties
Current Drummond President, José Miguel Linares, and the former president, Augusto Jiménez, are being charged by the Colombian Attorney
Jun 2, 20204 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...
Mar 27, 20207 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 20, 20207 min read
COVID-19 Crisis in Honduras: What it Means for our WfP-SC Team and Partners on the Ground
By Corie Welch On Sunday night, I made the extremely difficult decision to leave Honduras and return to the United States to continue my...
Feb 5, 20202 min read
A Pocket of Resistance in Colombia's Countryside: Campesino Alternatives in Northern Cauca
Last week, our Colombia International Team, along with New England regional organizer Lee Schlenker, accompanied Leider Valencia of COCCAM
Jan 9, 20205 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...
May 1, 20142 min read
Declaración de la caravana por la paz y la democrácia en Colombia / Statement from the Caravan for P
Feliz día internacional de l@s trabajadores! Hoy concluye nuestra serie de blog enfocada en el comercio. Queremos agradecer a tod@s su...
Apr 14, 20144 min read
Charter Cities: The new neoliberal experiment in Latin America
By Elizabeth Perkins, WfP Honduras Team Competition. It’s an inherent concept of U.S. meritocracy, the ‘pull yourself up by the...
Apr 11, 20145 min read
What does ‘clean energy’ mean for indigenous communities in Mexico’s Isthmus of Te
By Miriam Taylor, Witness for Peace Mexico Team Driving through southern Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the countryside unfolds like a...
Apr 10, 20144 min read
San Jose, Buenaventura: Ground zero for Free Trade in Colombia
By Chelsey Dyer, WfP Southeast Board The houses surrounding me were small wooden structures, built by the hands of the community members...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
What have we learned from DR-CAFTA Nearly a Decade Later: Understanding the Nicaraguan reality
By Ileana Valle, WfP Nicaragua Team According to the World Bank, Nicaragua was able to mitigate the global economic crisis in 2008. In...
Apr 8, 20144 min read
The Impact of the TPP, Part Two
Josh Wise, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition Yesterday we read an introduction to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and explored some of...
Apr 4, 20148 min read
Free Trade: A Primer / Fundamentos de Libre Comercio
Español abajo Margaret Boehme, WfP Colombia Team What does Free Trade mean, exactly? According to The Economist Magazine, it’s “the...
Apr 3, 20145 min read
Starting to unpack the TPP, NAFTA and food sovereignty / Empezando a entender el TPP, el TLCAN y la
Español abajo By Allison Mountjoy, Community Alliance for Global Justice’s Food Justice Project I recently traveled to New Orleans for...
COMMENTARY
bottom of page