This article was compiled from various writings by CPT-Colombia team members and participants in the May and July Colombia delegations. San Pablo, a municipality along
CPT received this letter from a young conscientious objector in Colombia who worked closely with the Fall 2007 delegation; translated by Michele Braley. We are
The conflict in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia where CPT works claimed at least five civilian casualties during the same week that CPT celebrated
by Noah Dillard The sound of helicopters flying overhead still causes my spine to tense. When I lived in Gaza Strip, Palestine, my friends associated
by Eloy García CPTers in Colombia prayed and sang out against further U.S. militarization of Colombia at a public vigil on 11 August outside a
by Joel Klassen and Doug Pritchard On April 26 in the town of Santa Rosa, eight members of the Nueva Granada Battalion of the Colombian
In the early morning of 14 July, members of the Colombian National Police and the Mobile Riot Police Squad surrounded the subsistence farming community of
by Chris Knestrick, Kim Lamberty and Sandra Rincon After marching for over a month, 10,000 representatives of Colombia’s indigenous peoples from 102 towns arrived in
by Sarah MacDonald November 27 was U.S. Thanksgiving, a day I usually associate with festive meals and family gatherings. Here in Barrancabermeja, however, our day
by Stewart Vriesinga Imagine being told that the home you built, or were born in, or lived in all your life is no longer legally