Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

shootings, murder and threats to indigenous human rights and campesino land rights defenders, members of the National Front for Socialism (FNLS) in Chiapas State and Mexico City and Campesino Organization Emiliano Zapata for the National Front for Socialism (OCEZ-FNLS). Shot: Matías Flores, Jesús Hernández Reyes, Rubicél Hernández García, Emilio Morales Díaz. Killed: Hector Sántiz López. This follows years of death threats by paramilitaries Los Petules, which has been blockading the OCEZ-NFLS communal land Ejido El Carrizal, in Chiapas.

death threats circulated by paramilitaries Black Eagles against human rights legal defense organizations Lawyers’ Collective José Alvear (CCAJAR) and the Yiri Castro legal firm; Diego Martínez, a member of the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CPDH); Ruby Castaño of the Association for Solidarity in Help (ANDAS); and Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) members Adriana Cuellar, Ana Jimena Bautista, Claribeth Albor (MOVICE-Bogotá) and Blanca Díaz (MOVICE-Bogotá).

assassination by paramilitaries of Ernesto Guzmán , who had close associations with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Antioquia Dept.

unjust 2-year detention and false criminal charges against Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, members of the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.

death threats to Iván Madero Vergel, Director of the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS), in Barrancabermeja, Santander.

death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Povenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department

surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Claudia Julieta Duque, journalist with the human rights organization Equipo Nizkor and with Radio Nizkor

stabbing of Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and death threats to his lawyer Andrea Torres Bautista; Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and mother Jacqueline Ramirez are involved in a high profile human rights case

surveillance of Berenice Celeita, Director of the Research and Social Action Association (NOMADESC) at her home in Bogotá