1. Another World is Possible 
   Globalization and Anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
   A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
2. Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
3. Big Oil's Ethical Violence
   BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
4. Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
   Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
5. Buda's Wagon
   A Brief History of the Car Bomb
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
6. Climate Change Solutions The Big Switch
   New Internationalist June 2003
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2003
   A look at global warming, what it is doing to the world, and what actions are being taken by people to slow it down.
7. Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
8. The Colombia Plan
   April 2000
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   In response to military assistance and "emergency" financial aid for Columbia,
   Chomsky explores the negative consequences of US intervention.
   
9. Colombia's Agent Orange?
   Roundup Not Ready
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
10. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
11. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
13. Connexions Library: South America Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on South America.
14. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region's biodiversity and communities.
15. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
16. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
17. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
18. How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
    Down Where the Death Squads Live
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
19. How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
    U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
20. Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
21. Killer Coke Exposed
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
22. Last Frontier
    Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
23. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
24. Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
25. Massacres Under the Looking Glass
    The ICC and Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
26. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
27. NATO Sets Its Sights on Colombia
    Trouble Brewing in South America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, signed an Agreement on the Security of Information which include future collaboration in matters of security, and facilitates the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities.
28. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
29. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
    Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
32. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    
33. The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
34. The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
    Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    “Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
35. Should Russia Attack Colombia?
    Another Case for Military Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
36. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
37. Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
38. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
39. The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
    80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the “two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians” killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.

Experts on Colombie in the Sources Directory

1. Association of Caribbean States
2. Latin American Economic System
3. Latin American Parliament
4. Organization of American States
5. Partners in Population and Development
6. Union of South American Nations
7. United Nations