Thank you to everyone who sent emails and/or called authorities to stop the impending raid of Ciudad Bolívar! A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED! Last Wednesday, September 23, 2020, we sent out an urgent alert about an imminent raid to drive out an encampment of indigenous and rural people from Ciudad Bolívar. a locality of…
****ALERT NO LONGER ACTIVE. The raid was averted by the mobilization of the people with the support of international solidarity**** URGENT! ACT NOW TO STOP THE RAID OF DISPLACED COLOMBIANS IN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! ¡URGENTE! ¡ACTÚE AHORA PARA DETENER EL ASALTO CONTRA DESPLAZADOS DE COLOMBIA EN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! ¡PASANDO AHORA MISMO! Please send…
Colombia masses continued mobilizing to demand justice for Javier Ordoñez, killed by the police on September 9, 2020, and to stop police brutal repression of the ensuing uprising. On September 11, 2020, the AFGJ responded requesting our partners and supporters to voice outrage over the murder of Javier Ordoñez, and the brutal repression of protesters…
By Eunice Escobar and James Patrick Jordan Colombia’s national Human Rights Day began with the brutal pre-sunrise killing of Javier Ordoñez, a 46-year-old lawyer and taxi driver. In the early morning hours of September 9, 2020, bystanders recorded police who beat and repeatedly tasered Ordoñez. He was arrested while going to the store with friends.…
August 4, 2020, marked a historic moment in the history of Colombia, a country with more than 50 years of civil war. On that day, Colombia’s Supreme Court ordered the detention of its current Senator and ex-President, Alvaro Uribe Velez. In 2016, the oldest armed insurgency of the hemisphere, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…
by James Patrick Jordan Note: Even as I finish writing and publishing this piece, we have received two more notifications of paramilitary murders of activists in the area of Caloto, Cauca. Send an email to Colombian authorities demanding protection and an end to the threats against Gerardo Barona and Andy Murcia Under cover of night…
Peace in Colombia is threatened by the highest number of politically motivated murders in seven years, with more than one victim every three days. And while the FARC-EP has met every agreement, including complete disarmament, the government is dragging its feet and failing to meet its obligations in several key areas. Following is a declaration…
Colombia’s largest federation of rural workers’ unions calls for solidarity with Colombian workers and social movements in their struggle for a just and durable peace. Enemies of peace in Colombia are waging a campaign of violence against farming, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian communities, killing their leaders and displacing people from their homes. Call to International Solidarity…
Originally published in Upside Down World Written by John Ocampo Friday, 29 January 2016 14:29 SIGN THE PETITION TO CLOSE LA TRAMACÚA, COLOMBIA’S US FUNDED TORTURE PRISON! The campaign to shut down Colombia’s infamous Establecimiento Penitenciario y Carcelario de Alta y Mediana Seguridad de Valledupar “La Tramacua” prison, located in the country’s sweltering Caribbean region and…
Originally published in Fight Back! News Versión en español The following message is a response to a series of questions posed to Hubert Ballesteros by James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice. Ballesteros was arrested while negotiating for the National Agrarian Strike of 2013 and charged with Rebellion. He was also serving on the…
