Tag Archives: Land Restitution
LAND RESTITUTION AND ITS UNFINISHED PROMISE OF REPARATION FOR THE VICTIMS
By Adriana Abramovits, AGENCIA PRENSA RURAL, April 13, 2022 https://prensarural.org/spip/spip.php?article27888 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) The book “Insurmountable …
“PROTECTION” NOW PASSES INTO THE HANDS OF THE PERPETRATORS, THE LIFE OF THE LAMB IS NOW UNDER THE CARE OF THE WOLF
Message from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, March 8, 2021 http://cdpsanjose.org/node/198 Our Peace Community of San José …
“IN 83% OF LAND THEFT CASES, THE PARAMILITARIES WERE THE THIEVES”: GERARDO VEGA
By Sebastián Forero Rueda, EL ESPECTADOR, August 31, 2020 https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/pais/en-el-83-de-los-casos-de-despojo-de-tierras-los-paramilitares-fueron-los-autores-gerardo-vega/ (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) The Director of …
WHO STOLE THE LAND IN COLOMBIA?
By Ariel Ávila, SEMANA, September 3, 2020 https://www.semana.com/opinion/articulo/columna-de-opinion-ariel-avila-quien-despojo-la-tierra-en-colombia/699559 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) For the current Iván Duque …
A COURT IN MONTERÍA RULES THAT THE CABRALES’ LAND IN CÓRDOBA REALLY BELONGS TO THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT
By Colombia 2020, EL ESPECTADOR, June 24, 2020 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) The Superior Tribunal in the …
HARVESTING HONEY, FAMILIES THAT HAVE RECLAIMED THEIR LAND IN SUCRE ARE REBUILDING THEIR FUTURE
EL TIEMPO, June 5, 2020 https://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/servicios/familias-restituidas-en-sucre-lideran-proyecto-de-melicultura-503650 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) After having survived a massacre that forced …
AFRO-COLOMBIANS IN LA LARGA AND TUMARADÓ ARE RESISTING EVICTION
By Sebastián Forero Rueda, EL ESPECTADOR, May 21, 2020 https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/territorio/la-resistencia-del-pueblo-negro-de-la-larga-y-tumarado-contra-el-despojo-articulo-920475 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) Even though the …
GOVERNMENT: ANSWER US!
By Patricia Lara Salive El Espectador, August 16, 2019 (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) Twenty members of Colombia’s …
With the Zidres, Businessmen and Politicians Want to Devastate the Lives of the Campesinos
Source: http://www.las2orillas.co/la-vida-de-los-campesinos-que-empresarios-y-politicos-quieren-arrasar-con-las-zidres/ (Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator) Ancestral practices such as majadeo (sustainable agriculture techniques) survive on the …
Private army forceably evicting indigenous in Urabá
Source: http://www.ipc.org.co/agenciadeprensa/index.php/2016/02/23/ejercito-privado-desaloja-por-la-fuerza-a-indigenas-en-uraba/ (Translated by Haley Olig, CSN Intern) About 60 men armed with sticks and machetes arrived on the morning …