El milenario e histórico Pueblo Indígena U'wa de Colombia con asentamiento en los departamentos de Casanare, Arauca, Boyacá, Santander y Norte de Santander, por medio del presente comunicado queremos agradecer de corazón el apoyo total e incondicional que recibimos por parte de las siguientes organizaciones nacionales e i
Ecopetrol
Oil Co. to Pull Out of Colombia
Associated Press | Bogota - Occidental Petroleum Corp. has stopped looking for oil in the Siriri block in eastern Colombia and plans to withdraw from the zone, a local company spokesman said Tuesday.Occidental's activities in the zone sparked fierce protests from the U'Wa indigenous group, backed by international rights groups.
Occidental Abandona Exploración del Bloque Samoré
El Tiempo | Ecopetrol sufre un grave revés y tendrá que terminar la tarea inconclusa enel proyecto, considerado la piedra angular de la nueva generación de campospetroleros del país.Aunque la petrolera estatal aún no ha sido notificada oficialmente de ladecisión, la sede principal de Occidental en Los Ánge
Occidental Petroleum to Leave U’wa Land! Company Announces Plans to Leave Controversial Colombia Oil Project
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.
Picketers Protest Occidental Drilling
Reuter on Occidental, U'wa and military aid | Los Angeles - A noisy group of about 20 sign-wavingdemonstrators marched outside the annual meeting of Occidental PetroleumCorp.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
U'wa Indigenous Leaders Arrive in Washington DC To Rally Against Plan Colombia and Military Aid For Oxy's Pipeline
WHO: Roberto Perez and Armando Tegria Rincunada, leaders of the U'wa Peopleof ColombiaWHAT: Visit Washington DC this week to speak out against Plan Colombia andmilitary aid to OXY's Colombia operations.WHEN & WHERE:Wed.
Analysis of Proposed United States Military Aid to Protect the Caño Limón Pipeline in Colombia
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A Colombian Town Caught in a Cross-Fire
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.
Informe Sobre: El Conflicto Civil y Los Pueblos Indígenas en Colombia
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.
Civil Conflict and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia
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.
U'wa Speak Out Against Bush's Pipeline Protection Program in Colombia
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 and
Fighting for Colombian Oil
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.
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
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.
Bush Reveals the Crude Nature of US Colombia Policy by Proposing Military Protection for OXY Plan Will Only Fuel Civil Strife in Colombia
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.
Occidental to Get US Assistance? Energy Co. Could Benefit from Bush Colombia Aid Plan
CBS.MarketWatch.com | Los Angeles - If the White House has its way, Occidental Petroleum's Colombian oil operations could be getting some spanking new security courtesy of the U.S.
Threat of Terror Abroad Isn't New for Oil Companies Like Occidental
Wall Street Journal | Arauca, Colombia - Pools of oil gather along the Occidental pipeline that runs through this vast savanna, the result of spills from repeated bombings by rebel forces. On a recent helicopter tour, Occidental Petroleum Corp. officials got word of yet another attack.
U.S. Officials Unveil Colombia Plans
The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - The Bush administration announced plans to help Colombia protect a strategic oil pipeline that has been a frequent target of guerrilla attacks, a dramatic departure from a policy that had previously limited aid to wiping out drug crops. The plan, outlined Tuesday by a U.S.
To the Groups that Support the U'wa People Repsol: Another Petroleum Company in Ancestral U'wa Land
We are calling the attention of groups that support the U'wa people.
Colombia's U'wa Tribe and Supporters Celebrate Oxy's Failure to Find Oil End to Oil Drilling on the Tribe's Ancestral Land and Total De-Militarization Urged
The news long awaited by the Colombia's U'wa tribe and their thousands of supporters around the world has finally arrived: the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) announced Friday that it has failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 well site on the tribe's ancestral land in Northeastern Colombia.
Communique to National and International Community Gibraltar 1, Cultural Triumph the U'wa Will Continue to Defend Our Mother Earth El Kera Chikara = Sacred Territory
Cubara, Colombia - Recently, the U.S multinational company Occidental of Colombia (OXY) publicly recognized the negative results regarding the expected petroleum bonanza of Gibraltar 1.
Comunicado a la Opinión Pública Gibraltar: Triunfo Cultural los U´Wa Seguiremos Defendiendo a Nuestra Madre Tierra el Kera Chikara=Territorio Sagrado
Cubara, Colombia - Recientemente la empresa multinacional estadounidense de petróleo Occidental de Colombia, OXY, reconoció públicamente los resultados desalentadores frente a la expectativa de la bonanza petrolera de Gibraltar I, en territorio sagrado U´wa.
Occidental Finds No Oil at Colombian Siriri Well
Reuters | Bogota, Colombia - Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY - news) has stopped drilling at its Siriri field in Colombia and is considering the future of the project after finding gas and condensates but no oil, a company official said on Friday.
Stinging From Nonstop Pipeline Attacks, Oxy Decides to Freeze Investment in Colombia
Oil Daily | US-based Occidental Petroleum has decided to "freeze" its investments in Colombia until a definitive solution is reached regarding leftist guerrilla attacks on the Cano-Limon Covenas pipeline.Guimer Dominquez, president of Occidental de Colombia, said the "revision of operations" is being undertaken on the advice of Ox
News Analysis – Environmental and Human Rights Groups -- Call on U.S. to Support Colombian Inquiry Oxy’s Cozy Relationship with Colombian Military Turns Fatal Oil Company Threatening U’wa People Implicated in Infamous Santo Domingo Massacre
Los Angeles - New evidence surfaced late last week in a Colombia inquiry exposing active collaboration between security forces protecting oil operations of the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and the notorious Colombian military in one of the country’ deadliest attacks on civilians¾a relationship environmental
Communique to National and International Community
The U'wa people inform the National and International Community about the current state of our TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL process against the OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT IN THE AREA OF THE GIBRALTAR WELL UNDERTAKEN BY OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM MULTINATIONAL OF COLOMBIA INC., AND WITH APPROVAL FROM THE COLOMBIAN G
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional
El Pueblo U'wa informa a la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional el estado actual del proceso de DEFENSA TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, AMBIENTAL Y SOCIAL adelantando en contra del PROYECTO DE EXPLORACION PETROLERA EN EL ÁREA POZO GIBRALTAR, VEREDA CEDEÑO, CORREGIMIENTO DE GIBRALTAR, MUNICIPIO DE TOLEDO, DEPARTAMENTO DE NORTE
America's Best & Worst Boards
Fortune | Lists the best and worst governance by the boards of U.S.-based companies. Notes the best as Coca-Cola, Intel, Pfizer, Target, and Texas Instruments and the worst as Advanced Micro Devices, Archer Daniels Midland, Maxxam, Occidental Petroleum, and Warnaco.
Protests Urge Sanford Bernstein Divest in Occidental
Reuters | New York - Protesters on Thursday tried to meet with the management of investment group Sanford Bernstein/Alliance Capital to urge the company to divest its shares of oil company Occidental Corp.
U'wa Leader and Activists Target Occidental Petroleum's Largest Investor Protests in Seven Cities Call on Bernstein/Alliance Capital /AXA Financial to Divest from Occidental and the Deadly Oil Project in Colombian Cloudforest Region
New York, NY - U'wa tribal chief accompanied by human rights and environmental activists demonstrated outside the offices of investment giant Bernstein/Alliance Capital today to protest the company's holdings in the Los Angeles based-Occidental Petroleum (OXY)- under fire for drilling on the land of the traditional U'wa peopl
