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Editorials
The CSN Editorials page features the opinions, comments and reviews of John I. Laun, president of Colombia Support Network, on the topic of human rights and politics in Colombia and United States foreign policy toward Colombia and Latin America.
Action Alerts
COLOMBIA SUPPORT NETWORK (CSN) STATEMENT ON THREATS TO THE PEACE COMMUNITY OF SAN JOSE DE APARTADO AND TO FATHER JAVIER GIRALDO | Action Alert, June 26th, 2010
Sign on letter to Colombian President Santos
View this action alert to sign on to this open letter to Colombia's new president. Go to alert...
CSN News
“Uribe leaves without giving us justice or reparation”
Sylvia Duzán had just turned 30 and was a reporter. She had specialized in urban violence and was a pioneer in revealing the phenomenon of the assassins in Medellín. This was her first experience in a rural area... Read Story...
Colombian Human Rights Defender Speaks on the Situation in Colombia
NANCY FIALLO ARAQUE has been working to defend human rights for the last 20 years. She has recently published a book, The Peace Inheritance, based on her latest research. On Friday, June 25, Nancy spoke about the Campaign to Defend Human Rights in Colombia and about a Continental Meeting Against the Militarization in Colombia. Read full article...
NANCY FIALLO ARAQUE
Spoke to a crowd at Edgewood College, near Madison, WI
Friday, June 25th
CSN
Report:
The Colombian Army: Terrorism, Thievery, Bungling And Massacres -Update
Updated September, 2010- The latest report from Colombia Support Network provides an outline of events reported officially or in the U.S. and Colombian media, describing terrorism, thievery, bungling and massacres by the armed forces of the government of Colombia. Read Full Letter...
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White House Response....
This is the official response from the White House to our concerns about the seven Colombian military bases, expressed through Representative Tammy Baldwin.
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Letter...
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Senator Russ Feingold writes to Hillary Clinton on the issue of renewing certification to Colombia
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Read the CSN Newsletter ACTION on COLOMBIA
In the Summer 2010 Issue
- University of Nebraska-Kearney Student Delegation
Introduction regarding the trip written by Professor William Avilés - Colombia Human Rights and Democracy: Day One Villavicencio- Journal entry regarding the students’ experience with human rights victims
- The Fiscalía, Peace and Justice- Reflection on a meeting with the Attorney General’s office.
- Our Memorial to Nan Cheney
CSN lost a great friend and supporter this past April 30 when Nan passed away.
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Books
offered in CSN Bookstore
The
Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying
Colombia
by Francisco Ramirez Cuellar
According to this study, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments
The
Dispossessed : Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
by Alfredo Molano
Here in their own words are the stories of the desterrados, or "dispossessed"-the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government.