Alert! Stand with communities to defend forests in Columbia’s Chocó region
Source: Rainforest Rescue Since the middle of this year, the timber company Maderas del Darién – Pizano S.A. has been marking trees inside the rainforest along the River Atrato. At least 4,000 giant...
View ArticleColombian journalist dies following police altercation
Note: Delgado’s fatal injuries were sustained while covering protests against the Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales outside of Sincelejo, Colombia. According to local NGO Proyecto Gramalote, the...
View ArticleColombia: Chiquita Republic
By James Bargent, January 7 2013. Source: In These Times In the late 1990s, in one of many chapters in the Colombian government’s decades-old dirty war with leftist guerrillas, more than 15,000 people...
View ArticleColombia: Road blockades and sabotage against energy extraction
Attackers blow up trucks at Colombia’s biggest coal exporter By Jack Kimball, February 24, 2013. Source: Reuters BOGOTA - Unknown assailants blew up four trucks belonging to Colombia’s largest coal...
View ArticleColombia: protest, rebel attacks depress oil output
May 31, 2014. Source: WW4 Report Colombian crude production sank to a 20-month low of 935,000 barrels per day in April as guerilla attacks and community protests curbed output. Technicians from...
View ArticleWill the U’was be forced to threaten to commit mass suicide again?
By David Hill, June 17, 2014. Source: The Guardian Say ‘Gibraltar’ to many people in the UK and the first thing they’ll think of is a ‘British Overseas Territory’ at the entrance to the Mediterranean....
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