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Liliana Obando: A new witch-hunt against the Political Opposition in Colombia

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Women's Prison, Bogotá, Colombia. September 3, 2008

As at no other time in the life of the nation, the loss of credibility of public institutions now has a direct correlation with the mafia style of governance.

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Canadian National Campaign in Solidarity with Liliany Patricia Obando and all Political Prisoners

Please read carefully the information from our friends in Canada who work in solidarity with Colombia’s trade unions. We need to demand freedom for Liliani Obando of the Colombian Peasants Union FENSUAGRO, who a few years ago spoke in U.S. cities where the Colombia Action Network has active chapters. We are working towards Liliani’s freedom in opposition to Bush’s Empire and the White House support for the corrupt, narco-trafficking, death squad government of President Uribe. We need to turn the world upside down! Tom Burke Colombia Action Network (colombiasolidarity.org)
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FENSUAGRO: Threats Have Increased

We recieved this denunciation from FENSUAGRO (the national campesino union).
The Colombia Action Network's delegation last summer was hosted by
FENSUAGRO.

Meredith Aby
Colombia Action Network
www.colombiasolidarity.org

AFTER PRESIDENT ÁLVARO URIBE VÉLEZ MADE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS AGAINST SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, THREATS HAVE INCREASED

Two days after President Álvaro Uribe Vélez accused politicians who had
demobilized from M-19 as “terrorists dressed in civilian clothes”, several
social, labor, university and alternative press organizations received an

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Colombia: getting beyond the stereotype of the narco-trafficker

Both presidents Clinton and Bush have given the third highest amount of military aid in the world to the right-wing Colombian government in the name of “fighting the war on drugs.” In reality, the aid the U.S. sends is spent on a counterinsurgency war against the Colombian people. Along with other local and national activists, I went to Colombia this past summer to investigate the reality of the “war on drugs.”

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Campesinos in Southwest Colombia Fight for Justice

Between May 12th and May 20th, over 150,000 Colombian campesinos (peasant farmers) of African, indigenous, and mestizo descent shut down the Pan-American Highway across southwestern Colombia. This mass mobilization (which was also a general strike, and which was accompanied by demonstrations of solidarity within cities in the region) was organized by the Popular Unity Process of Southwest Colombia, a regional coalition of campesino associations, labor unions, and other progressive groups.

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