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Occidental Petroleum to Leave U’wa Land! Company Announces Plans to Leave Controversial Colombia Oil Project
May 3, 2002 | Press Release
Los Angeles — At its annual shareholder meeting today, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) announced its plans to return to the Colombian government its controversial Siriri oil block (formally Samore), located on the traditional territory of the U’wa people. This follows a nearly decade-long peaceful campaign by the U’wa to halt the oil project. “This is the news we have been waiting for. [...]More »
U'wa Indigenous Leaders Arrive in Washington DC To Rally Against Plan Colombia and Military Aid For Oxy's Pipeline
April 15, 2002 | Press Release
WHO: Roberto Perez and Armando Tegria Rincunada, leaders of the U'wa Peopleof Colombia WHAT: Visit Washington DC this week to speak out against Plan Colombia andmilitary aid to OXY's Colombia operations. WHEN & WHERE: Wed. [...]More »
Analysis of Proposed United States Military Aid to Protect the Caño Limón Pipeline in Colombia
April 1, 2002 | Report
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A Colombian Town Caught in a Cross-Fire
March 17, 2002 | The Los Angeles Times
SANTO DOMINGO, Colombia – Death came to Santo Domingo as its people celebrated life. Villagers were gathering for a street fair that bright December morning, but a battle had broken out between the Colombian army and leftist rebels in the nearby jungle. The villagers heard a military helicopter roar overhead. [...]More »
Informe Sobre: El Conflicto Civil y Los Pueblos Indígenas en Colombia
March 1, 2002 | Report
Después de cuarenta años de guerra civil, Colombia está entrando aún más profundamente en conflicto. El fin del proceso de paz ha provocado una nueva ola de violencia. Las tácticas brutales de la fuerza de seguridad, de los narcotraficantes, guerrillas izquierdistas y grupos paramilitares, resultan en las muertes violentas de unos 20 colombianos diarios. [...]More »
Civil Conflict and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia
March 1, 2002 | Report
After forty years of civil war, Colombia is sliding ever deeper into conflict. The recent collapse of the peace process has set a new wave of violence in motion. The brutal tactics of paramilitary groups, leftist guerrillas, security forces, and drug traffickers result in the violent deaths of almost 20 Colombians every day. [...]More »
U'wa Speak Out Against Bush's Pipeline Protection Program in Colombia
February 14, 2002 | Press Release
The U'wa Community represented by the U'wa Grand Council and the U'waTraditional Authority, addresses the difficulties faced by our Sarare region that is partly Our Ancestral Territory established by our Highest Colonial Letters. We express our voice of protest and rejection before the national andinternational community against the actions of Armed Actors that destabilize the normal deve [...]More »
Fighting for Colombian Oil
February 13, 2002 | SF CHRONICLE LEAD EDITORIAL
Pushing deeper into the Colombian quagmire, President Bush is proposing a major escalation of U.S. involvement in that country's civil war. [...]More »
U.S. Plan Aims to Stem Pipeline's Flow of Trouble Colombia: White House Proposes $98-Million Aid Package to Help Bogota Combat Rebel Attacks on Caño Limon Artery
February 8, 2002 | Special To The Times
Arauca, Colombia - It may have been the damp in the earth seeping into the bomb, or a faulty connection. Alex Ramirez is convinced it was the five amulets he wears around his neck. But for some reason, when he stepped on a rebel land mine three months ago, he survived the blast. "The lights went out. I couldn't see or hear anything," the 25-year-old bomb expert recalled. "It felt as if I had something on my face. [...]More »
Bush Reveals the Crude Nature of US Colombia Policy by Proposing Military Protection for OXY Plan Will Only Fuel Civil Strife in Colombia
February 7, 2002 | Press Release
President Bush's proposed $98 million for protection of Occidental Petroleum 's (OXY) pipeline reveals the hidden agenda behind the Bush Administration's Colombia policy-namely subsidizing and securing US corporations' access to Colombia's oil reserves. Amazon Watch opposes President Bush' plan to subsidize security costs for a socially irresponsible corporation bent on operating in a war zone. [...]More »
