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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.

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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.

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

Oxy Shareholders Stall Proposal

The Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif - With protesters rallying outside, shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Event Examines Native Peoples and Colonialism Participants Will Explore Issues Ranging from the Environment to Racial Identity

Los Angeles Times | Claremont - Prominent activists from around the world will gather at Scripps College this weekend to explore the history and impact of colonialism on indigenous people. Among the participants will be the leader of a Colombian tribe that once threatened mass suicide over a planned oil project near its ancestral home.

Communiqué to the International and National Public Opinion

On March 21 and April 01, 2001, we had a meeting in Saravena (Arauca) with the social organizations of Arauca and of Cubará represented in: the Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos-ADUC (Departmental Association of User Farmers), the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT (Workers' Unitary Headquarters) - Arauca Su

Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional

Los días 31 de marzo y 01 de abril de 2001 nos reunimos en Saravena (Arauca) las organizaciones sociales de Arauca y de Cubará, Boyacá, representadas en: la Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos ADUC, la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT - Subdirectiva Arauca, la Asociación de Cabildos Mayores Uwa, ASOUWA, l