Colombia Solidarity Campaign is affiliated to the European Network of Friendship and Solidarity with Colombia, which has eleven affiliates in Spain and ten from other countries.
Malcolm Deas (Oxford University) Andy Higginbottom (Colombia
Solidarity Campaign) Hernando Alvarez (Colombian
journalist and BBC Latin American Service) Alice O'Keefe (New Statesman) Isabel Hilton (journalist)
Will the release of Ingrid Bettancourt - arguably the
world's most famous hostage, and FARC's main bargaining chip - along with 14
other hostages - mean the end of FARC and the beginning of serious peace
negotiations with the Colombian government?
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The helicopter swooped by a couple hundred
yards away, just above the trees, as we were traveling to the community of
Malvinas on June 12. We stopped at a house alongside the road and heard
more helicopters. We then saw the two planes that were spraying herbicide
in the U.S.-financed “war on drugs.”
Please respond
to these two Urgent Actions concerning paramilitary death threats against trade
unionists and social activists in Bucaramanga and
Barrancabermeja – two cities in Santander.
The
Organization Wayúu Munusurat is a group that has been working
for the defence of the human rights of displaced peoples and the
victims of paramilitary groups operating in La Guajira, Colombia with
the accompaniment of national and international organizations.
With this
communiqué we want to update everyone of the grave situation
that members of our organization are facing including death threats,
hostilities, persecution and pressure on behalf of the Northern Bloc
of the Autodefence group (paramilitaries) of the Counter Wayúu
Insurgency who have not demobilized and continue to operating within
our territories.
