We are reaching you from Colombia, South America. We have been astonished by all you efforts and resistance in order to keep extractive corporations out of your town, and we […]
Slaves were in Chocó to mine gold, and gold mining, much of it illegal and artisanal, is still going on all over the department. One figure claims that there are […]
Several growers are defeated, with their credit on hold as a result of the crisis of the sector. They have been threatened with the auction of their farms, which constitutes […]
The National Agrarian and Popular Strike that began August 19th is a response to the absolute refusal of Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, to acknowledge the dire hardship facing the […]
For over 60 days, the peasants have been demonstrating against the deplorable living conditions and economic circumstances in which they live, and in support of their proposal for a Peasant […]
This is the region of Catatumbo, and the campesinos are its poorest residents. At the moment, Catatumbo is at the frontline of Colombia’s raging civil war –a war that hasn’t […]
Tejido de Comunicación [Fabric of communication] spoke with Germán Vélez, member of the group Semillas [Seeds], who shared with us his knowledge about the extensive farming problems of these past years due to […]
During the radio show “Meanwhile and just in case”, the President of the Federation added “we are getting together to demand an end to the neoliberal economic policies of the […]
