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Editorials
The CSN Editorials page features the opinions, comments and reviews of John I. Laun, president of Colombia Support Network, on the topic of human rights and politics in Colombia and United States foreign policy toward Colombia and Latin America.
Action Alerts
DEMAND A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF US MILITARY BASES IN COLOMBIA
Please write to President Obama and
John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foriegn Relations Committee asking for public hearings regarding negotiations between the Colombian and US Governments on the establishment of US military bases in Colombia. Get more info and take action now....
[note: corrected email for John Kerry's office:Emily_barnes@foreign.senate.gov]
CSN News
CSN
Report:
The Colombian Army: Terrorism, Thievery, Bungling And Massacres -Update
Updated August 24, 2009- The latest report from Colombia Support Network provides an outline of events reported officially or in the U.S. and Colombian media, describing terrorism, thievery, bungling and massacres by the armed forces of the government of Colombia. Read Full Report...
The Business of War and False Positives
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A report on the widespread extrajudicial executions in Colombia is to be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, contextualized within the framework of the program of “Democratic Security” being pursued by President Álvaro Uribe. Read Full Story...
Read the CSN Newsletter ACTION on COLOMBIA
In the Summer 2009 Issue:
- CSN Trip Report
- Austin-CSN Chapter to Tiquisio, Bolivar, Colombia - Warrior Women
- by Ursula Rozum, CSN Central New York Chapter - Nonviolence and
the Colombian Conflict
- by Alyssa Neely, CSN Central New York Chapter - Noam Chomsky’s message to Cauca
- Father Rafael's new visa interview
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Books
offered in CSN Bookstore
The
Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying
Colombia
by Francisco Ramirez Cuellar
According to this study, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments
The
Dispossessed : Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
by Alfredo Molano
Here in their own words are the stories of the desterrados, or "dispossessed"-the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government.