Colombia

2009

The Dark Side of Plan Colombia

Teo Ballvé : Drug Policy/Drug War

Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?

Colombia's Heart of Darkness in NYC--and DC

Bill Weinberg : Mexico

Colombia paramilitary leaders extradited to face stiff US drug charges will dodge accountability for their atrocities. Rights watchers say their victims now have little chance for justice.

'Para-politics' Goes Bananas

Michael Evans

Chiquita Brands has been fined $25 million by the US Justice Department for funding a terrorist paramilitary group, but isn't that just the cost of doing business with Colombia?
Bush Amigo's Para Pals

Liliana Segura : US Foreign Policy

Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush's Latin American tour.
Bush's Brush with Latin America's Drug Lords

Frank Smyth : George W. Bush

Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.

Colombia's Deep Divide

Christian Parenti

Colombia's subtly demagogic President Uribe gained the advantage in the upcoming election by leveraging the strength of anti-left paramilitaries, drug trafficking and a culture of violence.
The Case Against Coke

Michael Blanding : Labor Organizing & Activism

A global, grassroots campaign against Coca-Cola is using product bans and lawsuits to shed light on the corporate giant's exploitation and brutality in Colombia, India and elsewhere.

The Threat of Hope in Latin America

Naomi Klein : South America

Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.
Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia

Liliana Segura : US Foreign Policy

In a landmark ruling, Colombia's Constitutional Court has allowed President Alvaro Uribe to seek a second term. That's good news for the Bush Administration, which considers Uribe a staunch ally. But others in Colombia are not so sure.
US Arms for Terrorists?

Frank Smyth : Arms Spending & Proliferation

Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.

Washington Votes for War in Colombia

Bill Weinberg : Drug Policy/Drug War

The US troop presence is doubled--as Colombia's civil movement says no to more war.
Latin America's Longest War

Peter Canby : Drug Policy/Drug War
Terror in Colombia

Bill Weinberg : Human Rights

Paramilitary forces are the enforcers of the promised favorable investment climate.

Colombia and Human Rights

Nina Englander : Human Rights

The State Department, discounting its own human rights reports, continues to assert that the Colombian government is complying with all conditions necessary for aid.
Failed 'Plan' in Colombia

Peter Clark : Plan Colombia

Colombia policy is one of the most controversial aspects of the foreign aid bill in the House.