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Friday, April 2, 2010

A victory for “reverse land reform” http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1451

In our December report on U.S.-funded counterinsurgency programs in Colombia, we discussed a major threat to these programs’ success: populations’ fear of a “land grab.”Much hinges on land tenure in places like the Montes de María, a region near the Caribbean coast where USAID has been supporting a Colombian government “Fusion Center” for about a year.

This small zone saw some of Colombia’s most intense violence in the early 2000s, when paramilitaries carried out a string of massacres whose names (El Salado, Chengue, Mampuján, Macayepo, and dozens more) remain notorious today.The paramilitary offensive displaced most of many communities’ populations; nine or ten years later, only a minority have returned to their lands.

comment-also read...Colombia's new death squads exposed; Army's Mass Grave Found http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58397.shtml

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