{"id":3315,"date":"2008-07-18T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:10:43","slug":"plan-colombia-and-beyond-grim-update-on-putumayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Plan Colombia and Beyond: Grim update on Putumayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plan Colombia and Beyond<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipcol.org\/?p=637\">16 July 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations are due to the group of Colombian non-governmental organizations that published a report last week on an April 2008 mission to the department of Putumayo in southern Colombia. The report [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asociacionminga.org\/images\/stories\/Andrea\/documento_mision_8juliocorreciones_para_secoursc.pdf\">PDF<\/a> available on the website of the human-rights group MINGA] details the human-rights situation in this conflictive zone, based on \u201copen dialogue between people, communities, organizations and local authorities, in meetings with approximately 400 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Understanding what happened in Putumayo is critical for a full appreciation of the lessons of Plan Colombia. It was in Putumayo, during the 2000-2003 period, that Plan Colombia basically got underway, as U.S. funding underwrote a mostly military \u201cPush into Southern Colombia\u201d in the department, a major coca-cultivation zone along the border with Ecuador. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipcol.org\/?p=637\">Read the update<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan Colombia and Beyond 16 July 2008 Congratulations are due to the group of Colombian non-governmental organizations that published a report last week on an April 2008 mission to the department of Putumayo in southern Colombia. The report [PDF available &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Rt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}