Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

death threats to Danelly Estupiñán (Process of Black Communities, PCN), and Rocío del Pilar Segura (community leader), organizing resistance to port expansion at Buenaventura sea port in Valle de Cauca Department.

assassination of Daniel Abril, member of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), who had been vocal about human rights abuses committed by oil companies in Casanare Department. Also: death threats to María Cardona Mejía, technical secretary of the Caldas Department chapter of MOVICE.

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