Fumigation

The Colombian Department of Nariño is experiencing one of the worst protection and humanitarian assistance crisis since Colombian President Alvaro Uribe began his second term in office. The U.S. financed aerial herbicide spray program (fumigations) compounds and exacerbates the myriad of hardships that Afro-Colombian communities are already facing: racism, disadvantaged access to state programs, food insecurity due to the internal armed conflict, internal displacement and vulnerability to human rights violations by the armed groups.

Please join the U.S. Office on Colombia, Witness for Peace, the Washington Office on Latin America , Amnesty International and many more as we call on Congress to create a new policy on Colombia and as we commemorate those killed in the San Jose de Apartado massacre.

Ecuador will intercept any aircraft from Colombia or the United States that enter the country's air space, the country's President Rafael Correa told media on Wednesday.

This is significant because Colombia had agreed a month or more ago to stop spraying and then violated the agreement with Ecuador. A conscious decision by Colombian President Uribe and his U.S. handlers who direct the chemical spraying as part of Plan Colombia. The spraying is meant to harass and test the new Leftist President Correa in Ecuador. Ecuador's President is taking the case to the World Court. Someone has to put manners on President Uribe and his U.S. handlers.

in solidarity, Tom Burke, CAN

Greetings for the new year! We at LAWG are excited about the prospects of what the new Congress could mean for U.S. policy in Colombia. We have included a brief analysis of the political scene and the changes we can expect to see this year. Working together, we know that we can create change, and the first step is to target the new representatives and senators. We need your help to educate new members of Congress about Colombia, and make sure that they're sensitive to the many human rights, labor and drug policy concerns that we have! Below we ask you to meet with your representatives and senators if they are new to Congress.