Quest for Peace - Colombia

"Just Say No!" ad goes to print!

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:02:58 -0400

On Tuesday, July 31 your ad, signed by hundreds of Americans and dozens of organizations, was published in "The Hill" congressional newspaper. Your voices and contributions sent a wake up call to Congress before they left for the August recess. Just as our pressure helped scuttle Fast Track in June, your voices helped head off passage of these broken agreements in the frantic last week before the August break!

The pending trade agreements with Peru, Panama, Colombia and Korea are just four more NAFTA-style, corporate pacts that will do nothing for American workers or our neighbors in these countries. Last November, U.S voters joined people from around the world in calling for a trade model based on economic justice rather than corporate greed. Last week, Congress heard from you again in the newspaper. Now we hope you will contact them as they return to their districts for the August recess.

Press Release from Andean Indigenous Organizations

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:20:14 -0400

Press Release

Five Hundred official delegates from the following groups: ECUARANI (Ecuador), CONACAMI (Peru), CONAMAQ (Bolivia), ONIC (Colombia), and CITEM (Chile are participating in the First Congress of the Andean Coordinating Committee of Indigenous of Indigenous Organizations (Quechua, Kichwa, Aymara, Mapuche)

Colombia: The fifteenth Round- The bargaining away of the scraps

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:53:50 -0400

Colombian Network against Free Trade and the FTAA June 2006

Over three months ago, the government announced victoriously and with great pomp, the end of negotiations for the FTA with the U.S. During the elections, the Uribe government eluded debate on the theme of the FTA. After the elections, potato, chicken, sugar and rice farmers realized they had fallen for the government's deception. The government had told them one thing, and the U.S. texts said something very different.

Ecuador seeks to unite the Andean countries at upcoming CAN meeting

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:44:25 -0400

Associated Press June 3, 2006

QUITO - The Chancellor responsible for the next regional presidential conference, to be held in Quito next week, says that Ecuador will use the meetings to seek to preserve Andean integration..

Colombian Government Utilizes Repressive Tactics against FTA Protestors

Mon, 22 May 2006 16:55:21 -0400

Bogotá, May 17, 2006
UNACCEPTABLE AND ABOMINABLE

At the writing of this pronouncement, the indigenous mobilization from Northern Cauca, which began last Monday, is still occupying the Pan-American Highway. The violent response of the police to this manifestation has left one indigenous compañero dead and more than 70 wounded. If this isn't enough, the Departmental and National Governments, through their spokesperson, the Minister of Interior and the Vice President have come up with no better answer that to accuse the indigenous protest of being an action of the FARC (one of the armed rebel groups). In reaction to this ridiculous and scandalous accusation, the Colombian people must express a profound rejection, and demand that the repression stop and that a negotiation begin immediately.

Statement from EU-Latin American Unions and Civil Society Working Group

Mon, 22 May 2006 16:23:46 -0400

REGARDING THE IV SUMMIT OF HEADS OF
STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

FTA Brief Update

Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:43:09 -0400

The US has been negotiating for almost 2 years a trade agreement with 3 Andean countries (Peru, Colombia and Ecuador). The agreement is very similar to the highly questioned CAFTA agreement. They had hoped that all three countries would cave in to all of their demands and agree to the US agenda. But it has been much more complicated. Here are the latest updates from the region.