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.
Indigenous Rights
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.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Protesters Call for End to Occidental Drilling Project Energy: Activists at Firm's Annual Meeting Say Test Well is on Sacred Native Land in Colombia
Los Angeles Times | Activists targeted Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s annual meeting Friday to press for an end to an oil-drilling project on what they say is sacred native land in Colombia, continuing what has become a noisy and angry tradition for the Los Angeles oil company.
Oxy Shareholders Stall Proposal
The Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif - With protesters rallying outside, shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
U'wa Tribal Chief Sends Message to Shareholders to Divest from Occidental Petroleum and Vows to Continue Resistance against Drilling in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa Traditional Authorities of Colombia once again took center stage at a demonstration today at Occidental Petroleum's Annual Meeting in Santa Monica and delivered his people's message to supporters outside and shareholders inside the meeting.
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.
U'wa Tribal Leader Kicks-off U.S. Tour to Expose the "Crude Logic" behind the U.S. Drug War in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa people of Colombia will arrive today in Los Angeles for his National Tour (April 17-28) to speak out against Plan Colombia and the corporate interest behind the so-called "drug war." The U'wa people, a peaceful tribe of 5,000 who live in the cloud forests of northeastern
Open Letter to Occidental Petroleum's President, Members of the Board of Directors and Shareholder
We, the U'wa, write to you once more to express our worry over the operations your company continues to move forward on our sacred territory "KERA CHIKARA" through the GIBRALTAR AREA Petroleum Exploration Project, in the town of Cedeño, hamlet of Gibraltar, municipality of Toledo, department of Norte de Santander.
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