Instead, they re aiming to help the army penetrate guerrilla strongholds in two southern provinces. We think it s a lot harder to operate in the Middle Magdalena than in the areas where we re focusing, Kamman says. To Middle Magdalena peasants, that sounds like a poor excuse. The landowners and cattle ranchers get away with huge coca fields and laboratories, and they take our land. Some adults here have been displaced and lost their farms 15 times, and there s no one who hasn t lost two or three family members.
Visitors sound off on Up the River in Colombia.
The Madison-based Colombia Support Network is organizing chapters across the United States to set up sister cities in Colombia. Do no harm. The smallest gesture by people from a powerful country can cause discord in an impoverished community. Delegations are the most important thing we do, says Jack Shelton of Project Minnesota-Le n. Because of us, well over 400 Minnesotans have seen Nicaragua firsthand.