By Alice Loaiza, Vice President of TFA, and activist in Colombia for over two decades When people ask me if it is safe to visit Colombia, I always answer that it is fine if you don’t speak Spanish and stay on the well-guarded tourist trail. But you will never see the reality of one of … Read More
The following ebook has just been published: “Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples – the reality and the neocolonial lies” This free publication includes maps and interviews with numerous leaders from indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. The interviews confirm that the reality of the autonomous zones, the significant progress and remaining challenges. Download the publication here: … Read More
U.S. Police Model and Colombia’s ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron) by Maya Hernández, National Coordinator for Alliance for Global Justice “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as … Read More
UN Report on Venezuela Blames the Victim for Human Rights Violations September 24, 2020 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued a report on September 16 by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela (Mission), which accuses Venezuela of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, torture “and other cruel, inhuman or degrading … Read More
The Haiti Action Committee stands in solidarity with the determined resistance to police terror and white supremacy being led by Black people in the United States. We join with so many others to honor the memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless other Black people who have been murdered by police … Read More