From August 15-30 2015, a new Caravan for the Defense of the Land will take place in Colombia, with the goal of shedding light on the human rights situation and land issues in both urban and rural areas. It will also denounce the prison crisis and the country's extradition policies.
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October 2014 Extractive Sector Extraction and Militarization From the Peasant and Indigenous Strikes to the Popular, Ethnic, Agrarian Summit The Peace talk and the peace process Political Prisoners Labor movement
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Ecopetrol's decision to take back control of the Rubiales field will imply heavier investment for it to sustain output and now raises the pressure on Canada's Pacific Rubiales to replace the future loss of nearly half its production, analysts say. Ecopetrol announced on Friday it would not renew a contract in mid-2016 under which Pacific Rubiales operates the field, putting the latter's 65,000 barrel per day share of output back in the Colombian state-run company's hands.
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Colombia's main oil workers' union, the USO, will hold an indefinite strike, its president told Reuters on Wednesday, in protest at widespread job cuts in the sector after a plunge in crude oil prices, but no start date has yet been set. A date for the stoppage would be fixed by March 26, said Edwin Castano moments after a meeting with members to vote on strike action.
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Sign online Bogotá, March 7, 2015
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The Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) began a serie of strikes and protests this monday in all regions of the country, threatening to call for a national strike in the oil sector. Last Friday, February 27, the National Board of Representatives of the USO concluded their meeting with a declaration that called for the workers and affiliated members to mobilize, proposing the possibility of a national strike. This monday workers responded to the call, initiating actions of mobilizations and strikes in various companies on a regional level.
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Who is Alexander Tibacuy Laguado? Recently, members of the CTI and SIJIN arrested the communal leader Alexander Tibacuy as results of an investigation on crimes related to the Concert of Delinquency and Financing of Terrorism.
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On February 26th and 27th, Arauca’s police supervisor will try to force around 40 families that occupy their lands, and were dispossessed by the oil transnational OXY more than 20 years ago, out of their lands. Paramilitary threats, resistance of farmers and indigenous communities. The 40 families that insist on recuperating their lands despite the siege of the oil’s security forces, the police and the army have already settled back since 16 month.
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The following signatory organizations express their deep concern following the January 21, 2015 assassination of CARLOS ALBERTO PEDRAZA SALCEDO, teacher and community organizer from Bogota, Colombia. He was a member of the social organization The People’s Congress, as well the Movement of Victims of State Crimes.
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