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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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May 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...
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.