Los Angeles Times | Bogota - Here in Colombia, the new U.S. film "Traffic" comes alive with a vengeance. While the movie is based on the Mexican drug trade, the corruption, kidnappings, terror and frustration of the U.S. war on drugs are even greater here.
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Plan Colombia Gets Off to Rocky Start Peasants Complain that They are Suffering as a U.S.-Financed Assault on Coca Begins and Their Legitimate Crops are Killed
St. Petersburg Times | The Guamuez Valley, Colombia - The largest U.S.-backed counternarcotics offensive has gotten under way in a remote corner of southern Colombia. Tens of thousands of acres of coca fields have been sprayed dead.
A Foolish Drug War
New York Times | Tolima, Colombia - Secretary of State Colin Powell recently affirmed the Bush administration's support for Plan Colombia - the plan inherited from the Clinton White House that pledged $1.3 billion to fight drugs in Colombia.
Dying for Oil U'wa Leader Roberto Pérez Speaks about Indigenous Resistance to the Colombian Oil Rush
The Bay Guardian | Deep beneath the cloud forests of Colombia's northeastern highlands lie 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil, and Occidental Oil is poised to make a killing off of it. But the path to profits goes through the home of the indigenous U'wa, who, led by Roberto Pérez, are mounting fierce resistance.
Environment-Finance: Activists Target Investors of US Company Drilling in Colombia
Inter-Press Service | Washington - Having had no luck convincing a US oil company to halt drilling on land in Colombia claimed by an indigenous tribe, opponents to the project are now declaring some success in targeting investors of the corporation.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Activism - Fidelity Gets Out
Boston Phoenix | Fidelity Investments is no longer the prime target of a campaign to halt oil drilling in the Colombian rain forest, but two other New England-based companies may soon take the investment giant's place.
Private Sector: He May Win the Pennant, but Easy on the Champagne Letter from a Surprise Visitor
The New York Times | Investment bankers know they are not immune to protests by shareholder activists who sometimes see Wall Street as an accomplice to social wrongs. But last week, when Roberto Perez, chief of the Uwa Indian nation of Colombia, paid an unannounced visit to the the San Francisco headquarters of the Sanford C.
Colombian Tribe Steps Up Battle against Occidental
Reuters | New York - Colombia's U'Wa Indians, a 5,000-strong tribe fighting to keep Big Oil out of their corner of the rainforest, have stepped up their campaign to bury California energy company Occidental Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news).
Campaign Launched Against SANFORD BERNSTEIN for 'Unethical' Investments in Oil Project on U'wa People's Sacred Land Groups Call on Company to Divest from Occidental Petroleum
San Francisco, CA-U'wa Indian chief Roberto Perez joined activists from environmental and human rights organizations today to launch a grassroots campaign against the largest investor in Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Sanford Bernstein & Co. for its involvement in an oil project on the U'wa's land in Colombia.
Decree No. 1088 of 1993 - Resolution of Register No. 003 of January 1997 Indigenous Affairs - Minister of the Interior PRONOUNCEMENT TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Once again, the U'wa people reject the enslaving attitude of Occidental Petroleum, which continues to disregard the sovereignty and legitimacy of the U'wa, a millennial people, by allowing agents of the multinational Occidental Colombia Inc.
Decreto No. 1088 de 1993 Resolución de registro No. 003 de febrero de 1997. Dirección genera de asuntos Indígenas Ministerio del Interior PRONUNCIAMENTO A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL
Una vez más el Pueblo U'wa rechazamos la actitud avasalladora de la Oxy, porque esta pretende seguir desconociendo la Soberania de nuestro Pueblo Milernario y por tanto de la legitimidad de nosotros los U'wa con respecto a los Territorios Ancestrales que hoy pisotean los agentes de la Multinacional Occidental de Colombia Inc
Plan Colombia: Fumigation Threatens Amazon, Warn Indigenous Leaders, Scientists
Inter Press Service | Washington - The spraying of chemical herbicides to destroy coca fields in southern Colombia could seriously threaten the rainforests and wildlife of the Amazon and the health of indigenous and small farming communities, warned scientists and indigenous leaders here.As part of a 1.6 billion dollar US emergency aid pack
U.S. Grows Killer Fungus to Fight Heroin
New York Post | A secret U.S.-funded biological weapon to wipe out the heroin trade is in the final stages of development, raising fears in the scientific community that a monster germ will wreak an "ecological catastrophe."For the past two years, scientists funded by the U.S.
Key House Leader Withdraws Support for Colombia Aid Plan
The New York Times | Washington — Representative Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, has abruptly withdrawn his support from the decision to funnel $1.3 billion in mostly military aid to Colombia, arguing that the United States is on the brink of a "major mistake."Mr.
Colombia Oil Pipeline Pumping Again After Bombing
Reuters | Bogota - Colombia's second-largest crude oil export pipeline was up and running again Thursday after the latest attack in a record-breaking campaign of bombings by Marxist rebels, the state oil company Ecopetrol said.
Whose Globe? The Plight of Local People Gets a Voice in Corporate Boardrooms
Business Week | Sitting atop a black-rock outcrop near a grassy mountaintop in Colombia, Roberto Perez, the political chief of the U'wa people, gazes over the world that he and his ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years.
Kera Chikara - Ancestral and Sacred Territory of the U'wa People
Association of U'wa Traditional AuthoritiesDecree No. 1088 of 1993 - Resolution of Register No.
U.S. Oil Co. Drills Near Indian Land
AP Online | Bogota, Colombia - In a step a Colombia Indian tribe says spells death for its culture, an American oil company began test drilling on Friday just outside the tribe's reservation, the state-run oil company announced.Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Occidental Drills on Tribal-Claimed Colombian Land
Reuters | Bogota - Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) began drilling a long-delayed test well Friday in a potentially oil-rich corner of Colombia, where U'wa Indians have threatened mass suicide to defend what they claim as ancestral lands.
Democratic Party Trick Becomes Treat for U’wa Tribe Environmentalists Continue to Hound Gore for His Silence
Washington, DC – Halloween trickery by the Democratic National Committee backfired today when a lawyer who had claimed to represent the U’wa people, and who used that platform to endorse Al Gore, was forced to admit that indeed, he did not represent the Colombian tribe.
Test Well in Colombia's Samore Block Due this Year
Reuters | Bogota - U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) will begin drilling a long-delayed test well this year in northeast Colombia's Samore block, a disputed area claimed as tribal lands by U'wa Indians, a company official said Thursday.The $40 million, 15,000-foot (4,570-meter) Gibraltar-1 test well had been
Plan Colombia's Herbicide Spraying Causing Health and Environmental Problems
InterPress Service | Nueva Loja, Ecuador - The military's fumigation of coca plantations in Colombia with the herbicide glyphosate, part of the government's anti-drug trafficking fight, is causing environmental damage and health problems in neighbouring Ecuador's border provinces.
Claiming to be Green Party Supporters, They Said They Were Protesting Presidential Candidate Al Gore's `Tacit Approval of Exploratory Oil Drilling in Colombia.' Activists Crash Demo Offices Cops Arrest, Cite and Release Group Found Chained Together
Mercury News | More than a dozen self-described Green Party activists were arrested Thursday after storming the Democratic Party's San Francisco headquarters and chaining themselves together with bicycle locks, police said.Authorities responded to an emergency call from the Democrats' offices on 10th Street, South of Market, from som
GORE EXPOSED! ‘Flashers’ Expose Al Gore’s Ties to Big Oil and Its Threat to the U’wa People
San Francisco; Los Angeles - Al Gore ‘flashers’ made surprise visits to Gore campaign offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles to expose the truth behind the vice president’s ties to Occidental Petroleum and the company’s assault on the rights of the U’wa people of Colombia.
200 Activists Occupy Al Gore's Washington State Office Demand Gore Take a Stand for the U'wa of Colombia
Olympia, WA-Some 200 activists occupied Al Gore's offices for six hours yesterday demanding the vice president take a stand against Occidental Petroleum's drilling project on the U'wa people's sacred lands in Colombia. Mr.
Greens Stage Sit-in at Gore Campaign Office in Oil Protest
Washington Washington Times | Hundreds of environmentalists yesterday commandeered Al Gore's campaign headquarters in Olympia, Wash., to protest the vice president's ties to Occidental Petroleum, which plans to drill for oil on sacred Indian grounds.Ten protesters were arrested during the seven-and-a-half-hour standoff, police said.
(Transcript of Today's Presentation by U'wa Legal Representative to International Journalists Follows) U'wa Leaders Present the Colombian Government with Proof of "Royal Land Titles" Granted by the King of Spain Colonial Titles Could Negate O
Bogota, Colombia - U'wa Indigenous leaders on Thursday presented the Colombian government with archival evidence of colonial titles from 1661 which the U'wa claim uphold their soil and subsoil rights to their ancestral territory.
Decree Number 1088, 1993 Registry Resolution Number 003, February 1997. Minister of the Interior Communique to the National and International Public Kera Chikara - Ancestral and Sacred Territory of the U'wa People
The U'wa People want to make known the National and International Public the repressive nature of the public forces, military, and anti-riot police who are, on a daily basis, physically and morally assaulting members of the U'wa community who are living on the Santa Rita and Bellavista Farms in Cedeno, Toledo, North Santander
Decreto No. 1088 de 1993 Resolución de registro No. 003 de febrero de 1997. Dirección genera de asuntos Indígenas Ministerio del Interior COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL Kera Chikara - Territorio Ancestral y Sagrado U'wa
El Pueblo U´wa damos a conocer a la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional las actitudes represivas por parte de la Fuerza Pública ejército y policía antimotines quienes a diario están agrediendo física y moralmente a los miembros de la comunidad U'wa que se encuentran usufructuando los predios Santa Rita y Bellavi
