- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporations actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
- Big Oil's Ethical Violence
BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
- Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2014 A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
- Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
- Canadian Foreign Policy and the Coming Elections in FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Featuring the impact of minority government on Canadian foreign policy, Haitian democracy, U.S.multilateralism in the Americas, Colombia-UNASUR relations, Cuban bloggers, and boosting Canada's relationship with Mexico. FOCALPoint is available online.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Caribbean Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website Organizations and experts on Caribbean topics.
- Cauca's indigenous community radios appeal for help
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 As fighting between guerrillas and the army intensifies once again in the Cauca department in south-western Colombia, indigenous communities and their communications infrastructure are more than ever at risk and under threat of censorship.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
- Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
- Colombia's Agent Orange?
Roundup Not Ready Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions Library: South America Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on South America.
- Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2016 Dawn Paleys book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples movements.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review) Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
- Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
Down Where the Death Squads Live Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia. And, this is much to HRWs discredit.
- How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
- IFJ Backs Silent March in Colombia to Denounce Threats against Journalists
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed the appeal of its affiliate in Colombia, the Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FECOLPER) for a silent march throughout the country on World Press Freedom Day.
- IFJ Calls on United States to Withdraw "Perverse" Bar on Colombian Journalist
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 International Federation of Journalists calls on the United States to lift a travel ban on a leading Colombian journalist who has risked his life to expose terrorism, warning of a "grave injustice" that may increase the dangers facing the reporter.
- IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
- Know who youre working for and why youre working
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Colombian ICIJ member Carlos Eduardo Huertas talks about the traits of a good investigative journalist, his experience with Wikileaks and why tackling the big, important themes and sticking to them matters.
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- Massacres Under the Looking Glass
The ICC and Colombia Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICCs Clouseau-like scrutiny.
- The Narco News Bulletin
Resource Type: Website Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
- National Union of Public and General Employees
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- NATO Sets Its Sights on Colombia
Trouble Brewing in South America Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, signed an Agreement on the Security of Information which include future collaboration in matters of security, and facilitates the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- NUJ and IFJ condemn UK government Visa Decision
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The Nation Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland ( NUJ) and the IFJ condemn the decision by the UK government to refuse a visa to a leading Colombian journalist whose reports on human rights abuses.
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Press for Conversion #43
December 2000 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2000
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonados whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word disappeared brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- Science for Peace objects to Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Science for Peace is appalled that the Liberals dropped their objections on human rights grounds to the Canada-Colombia FTA. The USA, Norway, and Belgium have delayed approval of trade agreements because of Colombia's egregious human rights record.
- The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Human rights doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
- Should Russia Attack Colombia?
Another Case for Military Action Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
- The April edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas is out
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico ranging from disability to multilateralism, from gang violence to political dissidence.
- They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the countrys underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
- The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984 Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.
- Will Claudia Duque obtain justice?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders condemns judicial obstruction in the case against the former deputy head of the Colombian intelligence agency DAS, Jose Miguel Narvaez, and two other former intelligence chiefs on charges of psychologically torturing
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