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COLOMBIA: Shots in Las Pavas

April 27th, 2013
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On Wednesday 24 April, armed security guards from palm oil company Aportes San Isidro fired shots and blew out a tire of the Las Pavas community tractor. The community was transporting building materials to repair homes previously damaged by the palm company. 

Prayers for Peacemakers, April 24, 2013

April 24th, 2013
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Pray for forty villages near the Urra dam in Tierralta, Cordoba, Colombia, visited by Christian Peacemaker Teams. May God work in their organizing in defense of their communities from armed groups, resource extraction interests and Phase 2 of the dam megaproject.

COLOMBIA: Navigating the future around a megaproject

April 24th, 2013
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Residents of forty communities near a dam organize to
defend their way of life amid resource extraction interests
and armed groups. 

COLOMBIA: Garzal residents receive land titles

April 6th, 2013
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On 3 April, the Colombian federal land authority returned sixty-four
titles to members of the community of Garzal, bringing a partial end
to a ten-year struggle for what had already been theirs when a
paramilitary-backed strongman tried to make it his.

Prayers for Peacemakers, March 27, 2013

March 27th, 2013
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Jesus, let the blood of the brutalized, the sweat of the
threatened, and widows' tears lubricate love, awaken zeal, 
and resurrect humanity, that we may confront people and
systems that -- in robbing, terrorizing and uprooting Lilia
and millions of Colombians -- are persecuting you.