The following article by Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo, translated by dear friends of La Chiva, describes the consequence of Canadian mining investment in Colombia (though it could be of any nationality, in any other country). Colombia Goldfields, a Canadian junior company operating under its Colombian subsidiary Mineras de Caldas, has for the past several years threatened to destroy an historic community of small miners through large-scale extraction.
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Will Canada go ahead with its secretly-negotiated Free Trade Agreement with Colombia while paramilitaries reaffirm their control in the country and the Colombian president publicly attacks human rights defense organizations? Practicing political accompaniment with peasant communities displaced from their territory by the paramilitary structure of the Colombian state, our organization, Colombia Accompaniment and Solidarity Project (PASC), has always opposed the negotiation of a free trade agreement with Colombia, which will cause the multiplication of forced displac
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November 9th in Ottawa - Stories from Ground Zero: Grassroots struggle against a Paramilitary Regime
Colombia Solidarity and Accompaniment Project (PASC) and Umi Café proudly present: Stories from Ground Zero: Grassroots struggle against a Paramilitary Regime Analysing Canada's role in a human rights disaster FILM SCREENING AND PRESENTATION ************************* Umi Café 610 Somerset St. W, Ottawa Sunday, November 9th. 5 PM to 7 PM. *************************
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It seems like a slap in the face. The oil palm agro-industry has chosen precisely 16 October, World Food Sovereignty Day, and the Latin American country most hit by oil palm – Colombia – to hold the first Latin American meeting of the “Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.”
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Éditorial La criminalisation de la dissidence : nouvelle étape stratégique de la guerre sécuritaire La stratégie de guerre sécuritaire menée par l’État colombien est entrée dans une nouvelle phase.
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Christina Friederika Muller deported from Colombia. Investigator with Masters in Communications We, the below signed organisations, members of the Network of Solidarity and Friendship with Colombia denounce to the national and international community the deportation from Colombia of Christina Friederika Muller, a German citizen who was providing accompaniment to Human Rights Organisations. We categorically reject this arbitary and unjust actions carried out by the Colombian Security Service (DAS) in the city of Cali.
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After facing the police's bullets, and suffering one death and 122 serious injuries, the Minga of Social and Communitarian Resistance finally gets President Uribe to agree to a public debate in La Maria Indigenous Reserve, Piendamo, Cauca department, Colombia on 2nd November 2008. Minga leader and head of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council Aida Quilcue gives this emotional, inspirational speech, live on national television and addressing President Uribe and his cabinet directly.
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Threats from recent days have become actions Strangers have entered the humanitarian zones under the cover of night A member of Justicia y Paz was kidnapped for 1.5 hours. The situation has never been so disturbing in the past several months. PASC member Tania Hallé is still on the ground with the communities.
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Since the beginning of the decade, all the areas of expansion of oil palm plantations have coincided geographically with areas of paramilitary presence and expansion, to the extent that some of the new plantations being developed have been financed as farming projects for the same demobilised paramilitary from the AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – United Self-Defence Force of Colombia) who had previously made incursions into these very areas.
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