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The Paramilitaries are Trying to Displace Us

PEACE COMMUNITY OF SAN JOSÉ DE APARTADÓ April 4, 2011  Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN volunteer translator       … Read More »

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Fourteen Years of our Community and there is Another Murder

PEACE COMMUNITY OF SAN JOSÉ DE APARTADÓ MARCH 23, 2011  Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN volunteer translator   All of … Read More »

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More restitution victims

[Judicial Edition of El Espectador on line]- Friday, 03/25/2011- 1:06 [Translated by Steve Cagan, a CSN Volunteer Translator. Edited by … Read More »

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Colombian State Ombudsman promises to request that El Quimbo hydroelectric dam construction in Huila be halted

A resistance group forum against energy mega-projects meets as the mining communityof Briceno (Antioquia) stops Hidroituango dam construction indefinitely March … Read More »

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Early Warning in Catatumbo Paramilitary Threats

BEFORE THE OMBUDSMAN, LEGAL CAPACITIES, ATTORNEY GENEREAL OF THE NATION, PUBLICPROSECUTOR OF THE NATION, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, MINISTRY … Read More »

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Asociación de Campesinos del Tolima [The Association of Peasants of Tolima—SC] confronts persecution and transnational interests

The peasant leaders Héctor Orozco and Gildardo García are murdered after denouncing harassment by the Army.   (Translated by Steve … Read More »

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Press Release

                                                                                                  Bogotá, February 23, 2011   The Rural Community of Tame in … Read More »

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We are Asking for Justice not Revenge

(Translated by Eunice Gibson, a CSN volunteer translator. Edited by Teresa Welsh, CSN Volunteer Editor.)   ” . . . … Read More »

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Return has been on our minds since the day they kicked us out

The displaced rural community “Las Pavas” returns to its land for good (Translated by Stephanie DeBello, a CSN Volunteer Translator. … Read More »

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Parapolitics [i.e., the paramilitaries in the political life of the country—SC]

“El Alemán” links Santiago Uribe Vélez (brother of the ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez) with the “Casa Castaño” (Translated by Steve … Read More »

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