Non-Governmental or Academic Analyses about Colombia
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups |
| Title: | Paramilitaries' Heirs |
| Author/Source: | Human Rights Watch |
| Brief: | The New Face of Violence in Colombia |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups |
| Title: | Gobierno no ha hecho lo suficiente para combatir a los sucesores de los 'Paras': HRW |
| Author/Source: | Human Rights Watch, Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Medellin, el Uraba chocoano, Meta y Narino son las cuatro zonas mas azotadas por la nueva generacion del paramilitarismo en Colombia, segun un informe de la Human Rights Watch. |
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Evaluating Plan Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Danial Mejia Gacetilla Colombia |
| Brief: | Despite the substantial resources invested in this war, no independent evaluation of the antidrug policies implemented under Plan Colombia had been done until now. |
Monday, February 1, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Para-Politics |
| Title: | Government extradited paramilitary bosses to silence them: HRW |
| Author/Source: | Kirsten Begg Colombia Reports |
| Brief: | The extradition of key paramilitary leaders to the U.S. was "a fatal blow to investigations into parapolitics" and was done in order hide the truth, according to Americas Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Jose Manuel Vivanco. |
Friday, January 29, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Sowing Doubts on Trading with our Friends |
| Author/Source: | Roger Noriega The Journal Of The American Enterprise Institute |
| Brief: | Nancy Pelosi rewrote the "fast track" rules of the House with the express aim of shelving the trade accord with our best ally in the Americas, Colombia; last night, she choked when the president mentioned Colombia but recovered when she realized |
Thursday, January 28, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Displacement |
| Title: | ¿Salto estrategico o salto al vacio? |
| Author/Source: | CODHES |
| Brief: | Durante el ano 2009, alrededor de 286.389 personas fueron desplazadas en el marco del conflicto armado y otras manifestaciones de violencia, lo que representa un decrecimiento del 24% con relacion al ano 2008 (380.863 personas) |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USAID Telling Our Story: Colombia - Water Disputes in Soacha Are Over |
| Author/Source: | Relief Web |
| Brief: | Residents of Soacha, Colombia, and the surrounding areas learned to resolve their differences through mediation thanks to an award-winning USAID-supported program. |
Friday, January 22, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | 2010 Elections, Reelection Debate |
| Title: | Four Months Until Colombia's Election: Is President Uribe Already Running? |
| Author/Source: | Mateo Samper Americas Quarterly |
| Brief: | For President Uribe to meet the deadline, he has to overcome some hurdles that many believe are practically insurmountable. |
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, Justice and Peace Process |
| Title: | [PDF] ¿Para dónde va el paramilitarismo en Colombia? |
| Author/Source: | Fundacion Ideas Para La Paz (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En el país todavía subsisten condi- ciones para afirmar que no estamos exentos de la emergencia y consolidación de una tercera generación de paramilitares |