Colombia Solidarity Campaign

International Lawyers? Delegation to Colombia

2010-04-23T22:41:58Z

Follow-up Report #6

April 23rd 2010

This report starts by providing an overview of some of the current social and political issues in Colombia. The report also provides an update on specific cases of human rights violations which were presented to the International Lawyers Delegation which visited Cali, Southwest Colombia, in August 2008.

Links

2008-09-09T16:01:50Z

A comprehensive list of links to organisations, campaigns, and resources

The Peace Laboratorios of the European Union: Europe?s Plan Colombia?

2006-09-26T20:51:57Z

What is the European Union?s game in Colombia? When the Clinton government announced its anti-narcotics strategy, Plan Colombia, many human rights and social organisations spoke out against it, correctly describing it as a military plan that sought to take advantage of an anti drugs discourse in order to reposition the USA militarily and economically in the contintent. Time has proved those critics right. Today we see an increase in US personell levels in the country and a race to get their hands on the natural resources and the assets of the state.

The Dove Tailing of Strategies

2006-09-26T20:46:30Z

By Gear?id ? Loingsigh

When Plan Colombia was first announced there were different versions put into circulation each of which had a slightly different emphasis depending on the audiences to which they were being presented. Thus, the version presented to the EU rearranged the chapters so that social spending came to the fore of the document and not the afterthought that it seemed to be in the US. However, all three versions had one thing in common and it was that they described themselves quite clearly as an anti-narcotics strategy for the region. Many critics at the time claimed that it was really a counter insurgency plan designed to increase the US?s role in the region and went on to point out that the anti-narcotics strategy that was being championed had failed everywhere else.

Humanitarian Spaces for Transnationals

2006-09-26T20:37:16Z

By Gear?id ? Loingsigh
Originally published in Periferia No. 11, Medellin, Colombia.

The EU?s Humanitarian Spaces in Colombia are not a minor component of its intervention in Colombia and in a way are more worrying than the african palm crops they finance. To their defenders the Humanitarian Spaces are a tool for building dialogue and harmony. According to the EU vision and that of the World Bank ( which partly finances the laboratories and moreover has been financing the managers of the first peace laboratory in Magdalena Medio namely the Programme for Development and Peace in Magdalena Medio) the organisations of the communities are weak with very little ability to engage with the state and other entities.

The Integral Strategy of the Paramilitaries in Colombia's Magdalena Medio

2006-09-26T20:32:08Z

"The Integral Strategy of the Paramilitaries in Colombia's Magdalena Medio"
Gear?id ? Loingsigh, September 2002, 107 pages (Format: PDF)

Colombia: Acallando la Disensi?n.

2006-09-26T20:05:58Z

"Colombia: Acallando la Disensión. La Comunidad Académica y las Violaciones de los Derechos Humanos"
Nathan Eisenstadt, 2005. (Format: Word Document)

Colombia: Silencing Social Criticism.

2006-09-26T20:05:04Z

"Colombia: Silencing Social Criticism. Human Rights Abuse and the Academic Community"
Nathan Eisenstadt, 2004. (Format: HTML document)

Universidad Viva! Leaflet

2006-09-26T20:04:16Z

Universidad Viva! Leaflet (Format: Word document)

Dirty Business: Globalisation?and the Privatisation of Violence in Colombia

2006-09-26T19:58:48Z

"Dirty Business: Globalisation and the Privatisation of Violence in Colombia"
Nathan Eisenstadt, 17 April 2005 (Format: Word Document)