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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Colombia Forum/Dec.2-3/Ottawa
...you are invited to attend...
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THE COLOMBIA FORUM
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PEACE, CONFLICT AND INTERVENTION IN COLOMBIA:
A Public Forum for Canadian Solidarity
December 2-3, 2000 (beginning at 8:30 am on both days)
Theater B. Southam Hall,
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
* This forum will aim at examining the historical and structural
roots of the Colombian conflict as presented by Colombian and
Canadian speakers and establish a base for coordinated Canadian
solidarity with Colombia.
For more information on the agenda, topics, structure and how to
register, see: http://www.gratisweb.com/colombiacrisis
or write to: colombiacrisis@latinmail.com
* A collaborative initiative of the Caribbean and Latin American
Solidarity Working Group (CLAS) with Research and International
Support for Colombia (RISC) and the Ontario Public Interest Research
Group (OPIRG)
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BACKGROUND:
Colombia remains embroiled in civil war almost 40 years old. The
causes of this conflict are rooted in a long-standing history of
societal and structural inequity. Violence, delinquency, poverty,
displacement, human rights violations and the disintegration of the
social fabric are all symptoms of this structural malaise and are
problems which can only be solved through patient, open, tolerant and
democratic deliberation among all of those affected by it.
However, the United States government has designed an intervention
into Colombia that will undermine any possibility of achieving
lasting peace. The intervention is called Plan Colombia, a US$1.3
billion military aid package portrayed as an effort to combat drug
trafficking and the “narco-guerrilla” which is said to finance its
activities through the drug trade. The US government justifies its
action through a simplistic claim that drugs are the root of all of
Colombia’s evils. The $1.3 billion package covers up the true causes
of the conflict by advancing military solutions to social problems
and threatens to give rise to quite possibly the most severe
humanitarian crisis the continent has yet to witness.
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Soha Al-Haddad
M.A. Candidate
Department of Geography
Carleton University
www.carleton.ca/~sahaddad/embera/
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