... is treated as a technical rather than political problem, detaching it from root causes like landow... by the severe and extensive political violence involving a number of armed actors, including para...
I The State of Affairs in Colombia: Amnesty, Impunity, and Governmental Efforts to Regain Control - II Colombia's History: A Violent Past, ongoing Carnage, and Hope for the Future? - A Colombia's Political Violence: "La Violencia" and its Sordid Repercussions - B Colombia's Political Violence: The End of "La Violencia" and the Rise to Power of the Vehement Non-State Actors - III The Law Of Justice And Peace: A Precarious Balance Between Impunity and Upholding Legal Responsibility Under International Standards - A The Legal Framework Before the Enactment of the Law of Justice and Peace - B The American Convention on Human Rights and its Significance - C The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Few "Open Doors" - 1 The Masacre de Mapiripán Case - 2 The Barrios Alto Case -...
... shots at the car of Luz Marina Silva, a Colombian citizen, soon after she had received a single writtten threat about her political activity and several threatening, but not politica... internal armed conflict and rampant violence ? both political and criminal ? persisted." The Co...
... problematic in the Andean region (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador). Increasingly charactterized by spiraling levels of violence and social unrest, armed subversion, criminality, ...
COLOMBIA HAS been wracked by decades of violence stemming from a variety of factors: left-wing guerillas, right-wing paramilitaries and powerful drug cartels targeted by the U.S. government's "War on Drugs." Union organizers - at Coca-Cola bottling plants and elsewhere - have often found themselves the target of violence from the paramilitaries. And Coca-Cola workers said they'd been arrested under false pretenses, beaten up, and even been kidnapped by paramilitaries working in conjunction with local plant managers. Filmmaker Gutierrez says he learned about the lawsuit from [Dan Kovalik] himself. Gutierrez met the Pittsburgh attorney while making another film about Colombia's political violence. This film, Gutierrez says, is intended "to show the solidarity of some American people with ...
Nine years after the inauguration of Colombian President Andres Pastrana and now with renewed emphasis on his then newly-drafted Plan Colombia, the program has yet to produce any transformative improvements in the war on drugs that is being waged or, for that matter, the fomenting of successful peace negotiations with Latin America's premier leftist guerrilla group, the FARC. Instead, the initiation of Plan Colombia, while providing cover for the surge in the amount of US fiscal and military aid that Colombia now receives, has witnessed mainly an increase in crime and corruption, and an undeniable stagnation in the war against drugs.
... military sprays coca fields and violence escalates in the southern Putumayo region. The mai... firms and engage in cover ups of the political assassinations of scores of U.S. labor leaders. Co...
... of representation and with the inherent violences associated with it, does it necessarily follow tha... other in the Amazon border between Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. I conclude with some reflections on h...
... like to welcome all of you, especially Colombian Ambassador Silva, to our first Trade Subcommittee ... and the administration about labor violence and labor rights, although I believe that Colombia...
... and are therefore, the outcome of a political process. As North and Weingast (1989) pointed out,... 1986) and the systematic threat of violence against peasants in rural areas. Similarly, in the...The capture of democratic politics in Colombia, for example, took many different forms, depending...
[...] they behave like the old AUC blocs, often announcing their arrival with threatening messages, like the e-mail quoted above, as well as flyers and graffiti. [...] the Colombian government's "peace process" was not merely a failure, but pure farce.
... out social movements, eliminating political opponents, and exterminating so-called undesirable...Then as now, they deploy violence both for the sake of destroying civil and armed op...
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