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What is most remarkable about the political situation in Colombia is not just the high level of state-sponsored violence against the popular organizations and their leaders, but the high level of courage and resistance from a people who refuse to be crushed or intimidated, even by masked assassins who come in the night.

U.S. anti-war activists traveled to Colombia in July on a human rights delegation organized by the Colombia Action Network. The delegation met with trade unions, peasant farmer associations and student organizations. FENSUAGRO (Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria, or the National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions), Colombia’s national federation of peasants, hosted the U.S. activists. The delegation visited rural regions and documented the living conditions of Colombian peasants.