Click HERE to watch Beyond the Walls: A Visit with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six From Beyond the Walls is a play based on the testimonies, poetry, letters and collective statements of the political prisoners of Buen Pastor Womens Penitentiary in Bogotá, Colombia. The play was created and adapted by James Jordan based…
by W. T. Whitney ( Originally published in Counterpunch ) Asked recently by a Mexican interviewer to justify U.S. involvement in Venezuelan affairs, President Barack Obama suggested Venezuela should be heading “toward democracy, toward freedom. You’re seeing it here in Mexico [and] in Colombia, in Chile, in Peru.” The notion of Colombia as a model,…
By James Jordan ( Originally published in Counterpunch ) There has been an alarming escalation of repression against rural populations in Colombia. Much of this is focused against the National Unified Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions, or Fensuagro–the country’s largest labor organization representing rural workers. Fensuagro is doubly targeted not only because of the peasant…
May 28, 2013 This video was made by Independent Journalist Dan Gordon.
May 13, 2013 The Alliance for Global Justice has received news that Guillermo Cano of the FENSUAGRO agricultural workers union has been detained along with seven unidentified unionists and members of the Marcha Patriótica (Patriotic March) in the Colombian Department of Tolima. Don Guillermo is the Human Rights Coordinator for ASTRACATOL, the FENSUAGRO affiliate in…
by James Jordan CLICK HERE to support Peace in Colombia! During peace talks in Havana, Cuba to reach a settlement to the war that has torn Colombia apart for almost 50 years, negotiators weren’t sure whether or not they had the backing of the people. Despite polls that have shown that more than 70% of…
Maribel Oviedo (in center) leads delegates from the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Lawyers Guild to visit peasant farmers in the village of Maracaibo in Tolima, Colombia. We have received news from the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, that peasant union leader Maribel Oviedo has been released without charges. Maribel had…
David Ravelo, Human Rights Defender and Political Prisoner Demand freedom and justice for political prisoner David Ravelo. Ravelo is a member of Colombia’s Regional Human Rights Corporation and was honored by the Catholic Diocese of Barrancabermeja for his defense of human rights. He was recently convicted to 18 years in prison for what is widely…
22nd December 2012. By the International Network in Solidarity with the Colombian Political Prisoners (INSPP) Please visit the INSPP website for downloadable copies in English and Spanish.
By Tom Whitney Colombian political prisoner David Ravelo, jailed since September 14, 2010, learned late in November, 2012, that he had been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in jail. His case, based on spurious evidence, reflects epic military, police, and judicial repression carried out under a regime of big landowners and the urban elite.
