{"id":8573,"date":"2009-05-30T09:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:48:52","slug":"teo-ballve-the-dark-side-of-plan-colombia-david-bacon-blood-on-the-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"Teo Ballv\u00e9: The Dark Side of Plan Colombia \/ David Bacon: Blood on the Palms"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Teo Ballv\u00e9<\/a>:<\/strong> Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands<\/em>?<\/p>\n

This article appeared in the June 15, 2009 edition of The Nation<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>

3 military soldiers standing amid an African Palm plantation in Choco, during an armed incursion into peasant communities in 2005. Photo: Simon Bruno<\/p><\/div>On May 14 Colombia’s attorney general quietly posted notice on his office’s website of a public hearing that will decide the fate of Coproagrosur, a palm oil cooperative based in the town of Simit\u00ed in the northern province of Bol\u00edvar. A confessed drug-trafficking paramilitary chief known as Macaco had turned over to the government the cooperative’s assets, which he claims to own, as part of a victim reparations program.<\/p>\n

[Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blood on the Palms<\/strong>
\nAfro-Colombians fight new plantations<\/em>.
\nBy David Bacon, Dollars & Sense, July\/August 2007 | Issue 271<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Afro-Colombian<\/a>

Afro-Colombian families displaced by development projects, especially the expansion of oil palm plantations, and by Colombia\u2019s paramilitary and military groups who protect the projects, have created a squatter community, the November 11 barrio, at the edge of Tumaco, a coastal city in Nari\u00f1o department. The city authorities have used trash, garbage, and even medical waste to create raised pathways between the houses. Water for dozens of families comes from a single tap. Photo credit: David Bacon.<\/p><\/div>On Sept. 7, 2006, paramilitary gunmen invaded the home of Juan de Dios Garc\u00eda, a community leader in the Colombian city of Buenaventura. Garc\u00eda escaped, but the gunmen shot and killed seven members of his family.<\/p>\n

The paramilitaries, linked to the government of President Alvaro Uribe and to the country’s wealthy landholding elite, wanted to stop Garc\u00eda and other activists from the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (Process of Black Communities, or PCN), who have been trying to recover land on which Afro-Colombians have lived for five centuries. The PCN is a network of over 140 organizations among Black Colombian communities.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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