FENSUAGRO

LA FEDERACIÓN NACIONAL SINDICAL UNITARIA AGROPECUARIA
"FENSUAGRO – CUT"

HACE UN LLAMADO A TODAS LAS ORGANIZACIONES NACIONALES E INTERNACIONALES A PRONUNCIARSE FRENTE A LA GRAVE SITUACIÓN VIOLATORIA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y DEL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL HUMANITARIO POR LA QUE ATRAVIESAN LAS COMUNIDADES DE LA INSPECCIÓN DE PIÑUÑA NEGRO DEL MUNICIPIO DE PUERTO LEGUIZAMO,

We recieved this denunciation from FENSUAGRO (the national campesino union).
The Colombia Action Network's delegation last summer was hosted by
FENSUAGRO.

Meredith Aby
Colombia Action Network
www.colombiasolidarity.org

AFTER PRESIDENT ÁLVARO URIBE VÉLEZ MADE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS AGAINST SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, THREATS HAVE INCREASED

Two days after President Álvaro Uribe Vélez accused politicians who had
demobilized from M-19 as “terrorists dressed in civilian clothes”, several
social, labor, university and alternative press organizations received an

Both presidents Clinton and Bush have given the third highest amount of military aid in the world to the right-wing Colombian government in the name of “fighting the war on drugs.” In reality, the aid the U.S. sends is spent on a counterinsurgency war against the Colombian people. Along with other local and national activists, I went to Colombia this past summer to investigate the reality of the “war on drugs.”

Between May 12th and May 20th, over 150,000 Colombian campesinos (peasant farmers) of African, indigenous, and mestizo descent shut down the Pan-American Highway across southwestern Colombia. This mass mobilization (which was also a general strike, and which was accompanied by demonstrations of solidarity within cities in the region) was organized by the Popular Unity Process of Southwest Colombia, a regional coalition of campesino associations, labor unions, and other progressive groups.

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.