Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie

Canadian War Profiteers

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We, the Congreso de los Pueblos — a Colombian social movement seeking to build popular power and dignity in life — are (...)
The UN special rapporteur for the defence of human rights in Colombia, Michel Forst, is concerned about the (...)
What can we glean from mainstream media reports about Canadian corporations involved in the oil and gas sector in (...)
Rios Vivos, a movement born in 2008 in opposition to the Hidroituango project, is touring Canada to demand an end to (...)
Canacol Energy Ltd. is a Canadian gas and exploration company that was founded by CEO Charle Gamba in 2008 and is (...)
Canada is the largest investor in the Colombian extractive sector, an industry which covers forty percent of the (...)
Two Canadian mining companies are invoking the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, signed in 2008, as a means of (...)
Since February 15, 2017, communities in the municipalities of Yopal and Aguazul, in the department of Casanare, (...)
April 10, 2017 Canadian miner Gran Colombia Gold has filed a US$700 million lawsuit against Colombia under (...)

We are joining voices with social organizations and communities in resistance in order to declare loud and strong: the conflict in Colombia is part of an imperialist war, financed and fuelled by the economic interests of the North. Our international development agency plays a role by drafting legislation in Colombia that favours foreign companies. Our Conservative government has signed a free trade agreement, legitimatizing the paramilitary state and proclaiming Colombia a 'democracy'. Our companies (mining and oil in particular) demand the protection of their investments in Colombia through military brigades charged with protecting mines and pipelines; through paramilitary troops that 'clean up' areas through massacres and forced displacements; and through killers for hire that target unions. Our agricultural products are dumped onto Colombia at low prices that destroy small farmers and the local economy.
 

Unfortunately, the list goes on... To it, we add Medoro Resources, for its attempt to displace the entire village of Marmato, (in the department of Caldas), in order to build an open pit mine. We add Greystar, for its project in Santurban, which will lead to the contamination of the regional water table.  We add Canadian oil companies like Petrobank, Petrominerales and Grantierra, for the colonization of the Amazon, environmental destruction, and for the displacement of local populations.

As Canadians, we can hold our companies accountable and end corporate impunity.

 

Let's target Canadian war profiteers!