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Watch a short interview with Daira Quiñones, a woman driven from her home by Colombia's brutal armed conflict.

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.

Tension surrounding Mexican immigration is growing, and many would say that the system is broken, especially Paola Gutierrez Galindo. From Oaxaca, Mexico, Galindo holds a degree in Indigenous Law and is focused on the impact of migration on identity and family in Oaxacan indigenous communities. At a presentation hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies, she explained her concern about migration as a Mexican worried about the demise of her community, a view unfamiliar to many Americans.

The coup regime in Honduras continues to cling to power, despite massive pro-democracy mobilizations there. Meanwhile, the U.S. response remains sluggish and two-faced. In August President Obama called groups like WFP "hypocritical" for levying such critiques. It's time to set the record straight.

On August 9, President Obama went to Guadalajara, Mexico to meet with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for the fifth North American Leaders Summit. Did he stake out a change-oriented roadmap for immigration, NAFTA, or Mexico's drug war? No, no, and no.

Watch our organizer Ben Beachy break down the Merida Initiative in the context of Mexico's escalating violence. The speech was part of an Anti-Militarization Teach-In in February, organized by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition and the North American Congress on Latin America.

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.

The Merida Initiative is a three year package totaling $1.4 billion designed to combat organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America. With the Initiative's inherent focus on a military approach to public security many worry that the protection of human rights will be ignored.

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

Download Witness for Peace's fact sheet, discussion questions and action ideas.

Deadly Fumigation Returns to Colombia Putumayo, December 2001

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.

Detailed analysis describing the impacts of aerial fumigation in Colombia. Study shows how the spraying of herbicide caused widespread economic and environmental damage, undermining the very support structures which help keep rural families from entering the armed conflict and illicit crop production.