Oil Justice Now in Colombia

Big oil companies are devastating communities across the world. Their operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. This has certainly been the case with BP and other oil companies who started operating in the Casanare region of Colombia in the early 1990’s. There is evidence of kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearances. According to the Colombia Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an estimated 9,000 people were murdered and 3,000 have disappeared in Casanare over the past two decades.

Colombia Today Part1

This is a project that came up during our FARC-EP solidarity meeting in UK. We all agreed that Colombia suffers from an image problem. In fact,the media has been used as a tool to dehumanise and also demoralise the Colombia people's psyche. To the extent that they buy into everything the regime feeds them