FOR Latin America Peace Update
Every month, FOR publishes an update with reports from our accompaniment team in Colombia, news and analysis about peace initiatives, human rights, campaigns around military bases, and U.S. policy. You can also read our special reports on Colombia and U.S. policy.
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Latin America Peace Update - March 2013
- How to support an end to the war in Colombia
- June 2-16 delegation to San José de Apartadó, Cartagena, Barranquilla, and Bogotá
- U.S. aids police under command of death squad colonel
- The gun debate and Mexico
- Video: Tolemaida: Military occupation of our land
- Webinar recording: Unraveling the Pentagon’s foreign presence
Latin America Peace Update - February 2013
- Dispatch from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
- Aerial fumigation comes to San José de Apartadó
- Rebuilding trust: Landmark legal victory for the Peace Community
- Now is the Time for Peace with Justice: Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia
- Webinar recording: Understanding the Pentagon budget - and how to move the money
Latin America Peace Update - January 2013
- Peace negotiations re-open after expired cease-fire
- Get Moving! campaign: Memory is written on your skin
- Pentagon continues contracting U.S. companies in Latin America
- The pain caused by guns has no borders
- Impunity guaranteed: Expansion of military criminal jurisdiction
Latin America Peace Update - December 2012
- Coal pollution displaces a community
- Army’s round-ups of youth continue
- Proposals for an end to the war
- Lessons from researching human rights law application in Colombia
- Unraveling justice: Military jurisdiction expanded in Colombia
Latin America Peace Update - November 2012
- Community leader delegation to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas
- International Court investigates Colombia for “false positive” killings
- Opening paths toward peace
- Even those who choose peace suffer in this war zone
- Colombian Army officers implicated in killings to be promoted
- Webinar: Researching drones for action, with Medea Benjamian and Tom Nash
Latin America Peace Update - October 2012
- Mexican peace movement leader to tour United States
- Living into each other’s stories: Letter from San José de Apartadó
- The descent of the Colombian Army: “Take no prisoners” in practice
- Social movements to defense ministers: Demilitarize
Latin America Peace Update - September 2012
- Peace talks and the challenges ahead
- Life and the war go on
- The Mexico Peace Caravan in El Paso, Texas
- In indigenous Cauca, threats - and resistance - continue
- Radio feature: Children of the Same Sorrow: U.S.-Mexico Caravan for Peace
- The Drug War Webinar Series (Witness for Peace)
Latin America Peace Update - August 2012
- Disarming Houston
- Winds of peace in Colombia and the fate of paramilitary structures
- GM workers hunger strike leads to negotiation
Latin America Peace Update - July 2012
- Mexico Peace Caravan gaining momentum
- U.S. tour by Mexican peace movement leader
- Indigenous Nasa resist militarization in Cauca
- Refusing to forget history: Mixing it up at the former School of Americas
- Remembering Peace Community leader Eduar Lancheros
- Human rights groups urge U.S. to disclose who gets miltiary aid
- Nearly 100 organizations demand respect for CO rights in Colombia
Latin America Peace Update - June 2012
- Giraffes and dragons: two animals that accompany my presence in a war zone
- Blown Away: The War on Drugs: Feedback from the front line
- Limited ruling paves way for International Criminal Court
- Political forum celebrates ten years of FOR in Colombia
- Mexico Caravan for Peace will cross United States this summer
Latin America Peace Update - May 2012
- Behind flowers and flags, unionists still face violence
- New booklet from FOR: A primer on the drug war
- The Marcha Patriótica and ending Colombia’s armed conflict
- Evading Accountability: Washington’s drug war in Honduras
- People’s Movement Assembly on the Drug War
- Positive news for rights of Colombian conscientious objectors
Latin America Peace Update - April 2012
- United States sends combat commanders to Colombia
- Stop Hitting on Our Kids: Webinar on military recruitment
- U.S. to Mexico: Guns are US
- Declaration of the People’s Summit of Cartagena
- Homage to Piedad Morales
- Interview: “When I die, it will be here for someone else”
Latin America Peace Update - March 2012
- Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia
- Americas Summit: Path from drug war to peace
- The Peace Community turns fifteen
- Video: Breaking the Chain of Command
- Indigenous Council’s open letter to armed groups in Cauca
- Metrics of U.S. militarization in Latin America
Latin America Peace Update - February 2012
- People’s Summit in Cartagena
- Stand By Colombia’s Victims of Violence
- Honduras Grows as Pentagon Hub in Central America
- U.S.-funded Naval Bases Sparks Controversy in Dominican Republic
- Solemn Anniversaries
Latin America Peace Update - January 2012
- Religious Communities to Challenge Gun Trafficking that Afflicts Mexico
- Armed Work Stoppage - La Unión
- Breaking the Chains of Violence Speaking Tour
- Webinar: Follow the Money: Investigating Military Contracts
Latin America Peace Update - December 2011
- Paramilitary Pressure in La Esperanza
- The Risky Business of Defending Human Rights
- Peace in Colombia: Between expectations and uncertainties
- Mexico: Space of attacks on human rights activists
- A Human Rights Counter-Offensive in Colombia
- New U.S.-Colombia base in Panama to “combat undocumented people”
- Militarism Watch Webinar: Where are the women?
Latin America Peace Update - November 2011
- Focus, and a Time for Everything
- Celebrating Ten Years of Protection in Colombia
- Could Colombia Make Peace in the War on Drugs?
- Winning on Both Counts: How Colombian students won by rooting out violence from protest
- The American Intelligence Agency: WikiDAS
- Organizations Support Colombian Lawyers Collective and Inter-American Human Rights System
- Upcoming speaking tours / Briefs
Latin America Peace Update - October 2011
- Tomatoes, Bases, and Wall Street in Miami
- Connecting the Dots: Colombian Army officers and civilian killings
- Job-Killing Trade Deals Pass Congress Amidst Record Democratic Opposition
- Accompaniment is a Delicate Beast
- San José Community Slide Show
- Webinar on Sleuthing U.S. Militarism from Official Sources
Latin America Peace Update - September 2011
- Land You Love Campaign
- Building Peace in Colombia from the Bottom Up
- The Fifth Commandment
- We Make the Road by Walking: Our experience on Mexico’s Southern Caravan
- The Military Logic of the Drug Business
- Respecting Students: Will the Army Obey the Law?
Latin America Peace Update - July/August 2011
- Action alert: Stop Military Street Round-ups in Colombia
- Reclaiming the Cross on the Hill
- Organizations Lay Out Strategy for Continental Demilitarization
- FARC on the Run?
- The Paramilitary Spider’s Web in Urabá
- Borderlands Organizer Needed
