Dying for Land: Colombian Displaced Leaders Murdered http://www.lawg.org/action-center/lawg-blog/69-general/834-dying-for-land-colombian-displaced-leaders-murdered

Since the new government of Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated at the start of August 2010, the number of land rights activists murdered is heartbreaking. At least eight leaders of displaced communities directly involved in advocating for return of their families’ or their communities’ land have been assassinated, presumably by paramilitary or criminal gangs that benefited from stolen land. 

[meanwhile the obama adminstration has recently signaled it will work to ratify the fta with colombia by next summer..