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Two videos of human rights activists from Colombia speaking from the gates of the School of the Americas at the 2009 Vigil to Close the SOA.

Journey to the heart of coca country in Colombia, and hear first hand testimony of the impacts of chemical spraying in this exclusive video produced by the WFP Colombia team.

WFP Executive Director Melinda St. Louis, two Colombian trade unionists, and Dr. Aviva Chomsky speak from the main stage at the November School of the Americas Vigil.

WFP Colombia team interviews Rene Ausecha, from the Cooperative Association of Southern Cauca, about his vision for a different U.S. policy in Colombia.

Download this latest report from the WFP Colombia team: Forced Manual Eradication: The Wrong Solution to the Failed U.S. Counter-Narcotics Policy in Colombia

July 2002. An in-depth analysis of the potential consequences of the proposed $98 million in U.S. aid to protect an oil pipeline in the war-torn state of Arauca. Released to Congress in time for the debate on the 2003 Foreign Appropriations bills, its findings are essential to head off this costly and potentially devastating piece of corporate welfare for the California-based Occidental Petroleum.

May 2007. Despite over $5 billion and approximately two million acres fumigated in Colombia, the State Department reports increased coca production—the raw material for cocaine—during Plan Colombia’s seven years. For years Witness for Peace and others have documented that U.S.-backed fumigation has destroyed legitimate crops. In a representative example of a widespread problem, for the second time in two years a coffee producers’ cooperative, COSURCA, has been wrongly fumigated. The evidence is clear—the fumigation policy has failed and must be discontinued. The program has failed to accomplish its stated goal of reducing coca production and has destroyed the livelihoods of family farmers. Read a COSURCA report on the 2005 round of fumigations that destroyed numerous crops. Leer el informe en Español.

July 2004. Plan Colombia turns four in July 2004, and Putumayo, Colombia's southern department, has been the primary focus of U.S. military aid to Colombia. This updated report demonstrates that the U.S. aerial fumigations program has been a failure, that human rights violations have increased and that civilian security has decreased in Putumayo.