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Colombia: Activist Killed by FARC by Weekly News Update on the Americas (26.03.2006)
On Mar. 23, the Campesino Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC) said it had determined that guerrillas from the 24th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were responsible for the Feb. 18 murder of community leader Guido Romero, vice president of the Communal Action Board in the rural community of La Victoria in Cantagallo municipality, Bolivar department. The ACVC had attributed the murder to rightwing paramilitaries in a Feb. 21 communique.

Colombia: Murder in Cimitarra valley by Weekly News Update on the Americas (05.03.2006)
The Campesino Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC) has reported a recent increase in paramilitary murders, threats and other activities in the Cimitarra valley of Colombia's Magdalena Medio region, where the departments of Bolivar, Santander and Antioquia intersect. At a meeting in Cantagallo, a paramilitary member from Barrancabermeja in Santander department announced that the legalized paramilitary groups known as Convivir must be reestablished in the town.

Freedom for our brothers from CPT, peace fighters in Iraq by Peasant Association of Cimitarra River Valley (02.12.2005)
Our brothers and companions Norman Kember, Briton 74-year-old, the American 54-year-old Tom Fox, and the Canadians 41-year-old James Loney, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were retained unjustly on Saturday, the 26th of November by the "Brigade of the Swords of the Righteousness". We know CPT from 2001, they have walked close to us, exposing their lives, along the paths of pain and injustice so common in Colombia.

"Planting Dreams to Harvest Peace" by Asociación Campesina del Valle del Río Cimitarra (09.06.2005)
In their territory, the campesinos continue wretched yet stubborn, restless, organized, with their plans and proposals, to stay alive, attached to the land, while the war is defined and a political solution to the conflict is cleared up. National and International Solidarity Campaign with the Campesino Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC). "We are the political wing of the campesino".

Álvaro Manzano: A survivor of the UP (Patriotic Union) persecuted by the Colombian State by César Jerez (27.05.2005)
The story of the life of Álvaro Manzano should be a contribution to memory, truth and justice which sooner or later will have to come to all the victims of the UP.