Editorials

 

The new 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.

 

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The Colombian Army: Terrorism, Thievery, Bungling And Massacres -Update

Peace Community Banana Harvest

Updated October 2008 - 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...

 

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Read the CSN Newsletter ACTION on COLOMBIA

In the Spring 2009 Issue:

• My Impressions While in the United States
  -by Colombian artist Jafeth Gomez Ledezma
  
• ”El Plan de Vida”—What is a Life Plan?
  - Report from CSN Sister Communities
• CSN Co-signs ACLU Letter
  - to Attorney General Holder and Secretaries
  Clinton and Napolitano regarding Father Gallego

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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.

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