by Lisa Haugaard and Vanessa Kritzer
on September 07, 2010
For a lot of people, the day after Labor Day is the time to get down to business. For us, it's just September 7th. Why? Because when you're going for change as big as we are on U.S.-Colombia policy, you never stop working hard.
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by Mavis Anderson
on August 25, 2010
Today, August 25, three key congresspersons sent a letter to President Obama lauding the rumors (that we believe are substantiated) that his administration is on the brink of an announcement easing the ban on travel to Cuba – which is within the executive purview of the President (both President Clinton and President Bush took advantage of the authority of the executive to revise and reinterpret the regulations governing travel to Cuba by limited categories of U.S. citizens).
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by Jennifer Johnson and Vanessa Kritzer
on September 01, 2010
Persistence, local organizing, effective advocacy and international pressure have ultimately won out in bringing justice to Raúl Hernández Abundio, an indigenous rights defender from Guerrero, Mexico who was targeted by authorities and unjustly imprisoned. Since we wrote about his case in July, international and local human rights groups have been working tirelessly to clear his name of the murder charges for his exposure of abuses committed by soldiers and local authorities.
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by Lisa Haugaard
on August 24, 2010
Colombia's Constitutional Court issued an important decision last week
which sent Colombia's new administration back to the drawing board to
secure approval for a U.S.-Colombian military base agreement. The
decision effectively struck down the contentious agreement, chastising
the Colombian executive for having failed to get approval from
Colombia's Congress, and requiring them now to seek congressional
endorsement before moving forward.
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by Vanessa Kritzer
on August 27, 2010
I wanted to write a quick, exciting update on the situation with the Afro-Colombian community La Toma:
We stopped the eviction!
by Lisa Haugaard
on August 19, 2010
On August 13th, a car bomb was detonated near the Caracol Radio headquarters, one of the largest networks in Colombia. LAWGEF and its partners issued the following statement in response:
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