Coalitions

• Ecumenical petition to President Bush, 1,852 signatures, released February 2007
• [Español, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Document from six Colombian non-governmental organizations: "Comentarios de las organizaciones de derechos humanos de Colombia sobre el cumplimiento de los condicionamientos de la asistencia militar estadounidense," July 11, 2005
• Letter from several NGOS to U.S. Agency for International Development, February 22, 2005
• Response from USAID, March 25, 2005 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Statement of several international NGOS upon the Cartagena donors' meeting, February 3, 2005
• Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from eleven U.S. non-governmental organizations regarding February 2005 Cartagena donors' meeting, January 28, 2005
• [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Letter to USAID Administrator Adolfo Franco from four U.S. non-governmental organizations, November 15, 2004
• [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Letter to President Uribe from 12 U.S. non-governmental and religious organizations regarding arbitrary arrests, October 29, 2004
• Letter to presidential candidates from 25 national and 715 local U.S. religious leaders, October 14, 2004
• Letter to President Uribe from 29 U.S. organizations regarding August 2004 killing of unionists in Arauca, September 14, 2004
• [Español - Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Informe de la Comisión de Verificación de las Fumigaciones en el Departamento de Arauca, various organizations, November 2003
• Statement from four U.S. organizations, July 23, 2003
• Memorandum from four U.S. organizations, July 21, 2003
• Letter from nine U.S. organizations, July 21, 2003
• Document from Colombian human rights and peace organizations prepared for London donors' meeting, July 9, 2003 [Español]
• Declaration from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Working Group of the Colombia Steering Committee, June 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Letter to President Uribe from 25 Colombian Non-Governmental Organizations, June 11, 2003 [Español]
• Letter to the U.S. Congress from Thirty-Seven U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations, May 2003
• ¿Contra quién es la guerra? por el Banco de Datos de Derechos Humanos y Violencia Política (CINEP, Justicia y Paz, CODHES y la Escuela Nacional Sindical), 19 de noviembre del 2002 [Español]
• Letter from 15 U.S. organizations regarding Colombian government search of Permanent Assembly of Civil Society for Peace, November 19, 2002 [English | Español]
• Letter to Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Arizona) from five U.S. NGOs regarding alternative development, June 7, 2002
• Congreso Nacional de Paz y País, Bogotá, May 9-11, 2002
  • [Español] Llamamiento Final, 11 de mayo del 2002
  • [Español] Declaración de la Delegación Latinoamericana, 10 de mayo del 2002
  • [English | Español] Statement of support from U.S. NGOs, May 9, 2002
  • [English | Español] Statement of support from U.S. religious organizations, May 9, 2002
• Letter to Congress from 38 U.S. non-governmental organizations regarding 2002 supplemental appropriations request, April 16, 2002
• [English | Español] Memo from four non-governmental organizations: Compliance with Fumigation Conditions in the Andean Counterdrug Initiative, April 10, 2002
• Comments of nine Colombian human rights organizations regarding fulfillment of the conditions of the Andean Regional Initiative, February 28, 2002 [Español | Executive Summary in English]
• Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell from U.S. non-governmental organizations, February 22, 2002
• II Foro "El Sur Evalúa el Plan Colombia," from a conference in Puerto Asís, Putumayo, December 10-11, 2001
  • Presentación [Español]
  • Comunicado, 10 de diciembre [Español]
  • Declaración final, 11 de diciembre [Español]
  • Pre-foro Cauca, 17 de noviembre de 2001 [Español - Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
  • Pre-foro Nariño, 15 de noviembre de 2001 [Español - Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Letter to Secretary of State Powell from 62 U.S. organizations, December 7, 2001
• Statement of U.S. non-governmental organizations on President Andrés Pastrana's visit to the United States, November 9, 2001
• Statement of U.S. non-governmental organizations on human rights conditionality, September 26, 2001
• "Taller del Bajo Putumayo," results of an August 2001 workshop among signers of "social pacts" for alternative development in Putumayo organized by three Colombian NGOs (CINEP, MINGA and CODHES):
  • Relatoría [Español]
  • "El Departamento del Putumayo en Cifras" [Español]
• "Declaration of Lago Agrio," signed by organizations meeting near the Colombian-Ecuadorian border, April 19, 2001 [Español]
• Letter to President George W. Bush from over 100 Latin American leaders, April 16, 2001 [English | Español]
• "Peaceful alternatives to the drug war," II Encuentro Nacional de Mesas Ciudadanas para una Agenda de Paz, March 2001 (Spanish)
• Letter from 44 writers and academics to Presidents Bush and Pastrana, February 27, 2001 [English | Español]
• Open letter to President Pastrana on the future of peace talks with the FARC, December 4, 2000 [English | Spanish]
• [In Spanish] Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, December 4, 2000
• [In Spanish] Encuentro de Organizaciones Sociales: Construcción de Alternativas al Plan Colombia, Piendamó, Cauca, Colombia, November 24-25, 2000 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] "El Sur Responde al Plan Colombia," declaration of conference in Puerto Asís, Putumayo, September 8-9, 2000
• Statement from the Coordination for Peace in Colombia, a group of French NGOs, August 30, 2000
• [In Spanish] Bulletin from "Paz Colombia," a coalition of Colombian nongovernmental organizations, August 16, 2000
• "Colombian Military Not Fit to Receive U.S. Aid," Press Release and Letter from Thirty-Three U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations, July 31, 2000
• Letter to the State Department from five non-governmental organizations regarding a consultation meeting on human rights conditions, July 31, 2000
• [In Spanish] Statement by Colombian labor unions, July 2000
• [In Spanish] Declaration from International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Trade Working Group, Madrid, July 6, 2000
• [In Spanish] Declaration from 24 Colombian non-governmental organizations, July 1, 2000
• Joint letter by several U.S. non-governmental organizations, June 20, 2000
• Statement by 73 Colombian non-governmental organizations, June 2000 [English | Spanish | French]
• [In Spanish] Statement by European non-governmental organizations, June 2000
• [In Spanish] Statement by several French non-governmental organizations, June 14, 2000
• [In Spanish] Declaration from several Colombian non-governmental social, human rights and peace organizations, May 31, 2000
• Letter from several U.S. religious organizations, March 8, 2000

Acción Andina / Transnational Institute

• [Español] "'Política antidrogas' en Colombia... lejos del 'éxito'," by Ricardo Vargas Meza, (from IndyMedia Colombia site), November 5, 2004
• [Español] "Counter-fact sheet" from Ricardo Vargas of Acción Andina / Transnational Institute, April 18, 2002
• "The new global era: threats and impacts for Colombia," by Ricardo Vargas Meza, December 2001 [English | Español]
• Editorial: "Cultivos Ilícitos y Erradicación Forzosa," julio del 2001 [Español]
• Europe and Plan Colombia, April 2001 [Web (.html) version | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) version]
• A response to the State Department: The Aerial Eradication of Illicit Crops: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Contra-Fact Sheet, February 9, 2001
  
• Drug Crops and Peace Process in Colombia: A Proposal for Peace, 2000 [English | Spanish]
• The Vicious Circle: The Chemical Spraying of Drug Crops in Colombia, by Martin Jelsma, March 2000
• Drug Cultivation, Fumigation and the Conflict in Colombia, By Ricardo Vargas, October 1999
• The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Illicit Drug Trade, by Ricardo Vargas Meza, May 1999

AFL-CIO

• Terror War on Colombia's Unions Claims More Lives, May 17, 2001
• AFL-CIO Statement on the Situation of Labor in Colombia and U.S. Policy, February 17, 2000

Amazon Alliance

• Scientists Challenge Claims of US State Department that Aerial Eradication in Colombia is Safe for Humans and Environment, September 30, 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Reviews by Independent Scientists and Advocacy Groups of the U.S. Department of State "Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia" September 4, 2002

Amazon Watch

• Report On: Civil Conflict and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia, March 26, 2002 [English | Español]
  

American Anthropological Association

• Letter to President Álvaro Uribe, January 14, 2005
  

American Friends Service Committee

• The Costs of Doing Business: How Oil, U.S. Militarization and Corporate Activity Intersect in Colombia, June 2004
• U.S. Military Aid To Colombia Will Undermine Peace Efforts, by Don Reeves, AFSC general secretary, February 11, 2000

Amnesty International

• "A Laboratory of War: Repression and Violence in Arauca," April 20, 2004 [English | Español]
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification IV," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 10, 2002
• Letter from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 5, 2002
• More US Military Aid Could Fuel Human Rights Crisis, July 26, 2002
• Press release regarding Bush Administration human rights certification decision, May 1, 2002
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification III," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, February 5, 2002 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Human Right Watch site)
• Amnesty International USA Sues CIA for Information About Colombia's Notorious 'Pepes,' April 25, 2001
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification II," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, January 12, 2001 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Amnesty Intl. site)
• Administration Must Explain Ties Between US Agencies and Colombian Paramilitary Leaders, November 27, 2000
• President Clinton Must Order Investigation into Allegations of U.S. Collusion with Colombian Death Squads, November 13, 2000
• "Colombia Certification," document from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, August 28, 2000 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] version; link from Amnesty Intl. site; link from WOLA site)
• Clinton Decision to Waive Human Rights Provisions Will Contribute to Colombian Disaster, August 23, 2000
• Oppose US military aid to Colombia!, July 5, 2000
• Amnesty International's Position on Plan Colombia, June 2000
• Encourage your Representative to remove the Colombia military aid from the House bill, March 21, 2000
• Group letter asking Congressional leadership to remove Colombia aid from fast track, March 21, 2000
• Amnesty International USA to Congress: Don't Rush the $1.3 Billion Colombia Aid Package, March 7, 2000
• Amnesty International Calls on Defense Department to Clarify Role in Training Colombian Army Personnel Charged with Facilitating 1997 Massacre of Civilians, March 7, 2000
• Clinton Aid Plan for Colombia Could Escalate 'Dirty War,' January 11, 2000
• Amnesty International USA To Congress: Basic Conditions in Colombia Have Not Been Met to Warrrant Increase in Military Aid, September 28, 1999

Asociación de Usuarios Campesinos (ANUC)

• [Español] ANUC-Putumayo: "Seminario Taller Seguimiento y Monitoreo Plan Colombia," 11-12 de agosto del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format

BioAmazonia (Guaviare, Colombia)

• [Español - Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Propuesta de Sustitución Manual de Cultivos de Coca Plantados en el Departamento del Guaviare, 2003

Catholic Relief Services/ U.S. Catholic Conference

• Statement, Bernard Cardinal Law, International Policy Committee, U.S. Catholic Conference, March 16, 2000
• Colombia the Country and its Challenges

Cato Institute

• "Unsavory Bedfellows: Washington’s International Partners in the War on Drugs," by Ted Galen Carpenter, August 1, 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• "Plan Colombia: The Drug War's New Morass," by Ted Galen Carpenter, September/October 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• "Plan Colombia: Washington's Latest Drug War Failure," by Ted Galen Carpenter, July 27, 2001.
• "Plan Colombia: Should We Escalate the War on Drugs?" policy forum, March 13, 2001

Censat Agua Viva (Friends of the Earth Colombia)

• Plan Colombia y Medio Ambiente, October 2000 [Spanish]

CEPES (Peru)

• [Español] La IRA de Mr. Bush y Cinco Luces Rojas en Favor la Amazonía, por Hugo Cabieses, 14 de agosto del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Las cuestionables alianzas de los Estados Unidos en el tema de las drogas, por Mariano Valderrama, 15 de junio del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

CODHES (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento) (Colombia)

• [Español] "The Patriot Plan," September 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Fumigaciones, Desplazamiento y Derechos Humanos, por Marcela Ceballos, 25 de octubre de 2003

Colombian Government - Ministry of Interior and Justice

• Resignation letter of Alberto Rueda, senior advisor for drug policy, October 2004 [English (Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format) | Español (Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)]

Colombia Action Network

• Stop U.S. Military Aid to Colombia! January 10, 2000

Colombia Human Rights Network

• Action Alert: Stop U.S. Military Aid for Colombia, January 2000
• Conference Denounces Military Aid for Colombia, Winter 2000

Colombia Support Network

• CSN Position on U.S. aid to Colombia, March 31, 2000
• Urgent Action: Protest Massive Aid/Intervention in Colombia, January 2000
• Urgent Action: Oppose "Alianza Act", October 1999

Colombian Bishops' Conference

• Final Statement of the Bishops Who Participated in the Seminar -Workshop concerning Colombian Issues, November 13-15, 2000
• Declaration of the Permanent Committee Concerning the Reality of Plan Colombia, September 20, 2000

Colombian Catholic Church

• Press Release from the Diocese of Barrancabermeja, 2001 [Spanish]
• "Nuestro NO es a la violencia y nuestro SI es a la PAZ," Diocese of Barrancabermeja, 2001
• Statement Coca Commercialization in Colombia, Mons. Fabio de Jesús Morales Grisales, Bishop of Mocoa-Sibundoy, Nov. 2000

Conciliation Resources

• Accord issue 14: Alternatives to War - Colombia's peace processes, February 2004 [English | Español]

Conference of Major Superiors of Men / Leadership Conference of Women Religious

• Letter regarding U.S. policy toward Colombia, July 8, 2002

Congreso de Colombia

• Discurso del Senador Rafael Orduz, 14 de agosto de 2001 [Español]

Contraloría General de la República (Colombian Government auditing / monitoring agency)

• [In Spanish] Qunito Informe de Evaluación del Plan Colombia, diciembre de 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Cuarto Informe de Evaluación del Plan Colombia, junio de 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Tercer Informe de Evaluación del Plan Colombia, julio de 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Segundo Informe de Evaluación del Plan Colombia, 10 de diciembre de 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Informe de Gestión, Fondo de Inversión para la Paz (FIP), Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Alternativo (PLANTE), October 4, 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Primer informe de Evaluación del Plan Colombia, 30 de agosto de 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Special report on eradication of illicit crops, July 19, 2001 [Español]

Corpwatch.org

• Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia, by Jeremy Bigwood, June 21, 2001
• DynCorp In Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War, by Jeremy Bigwood, May 23, 2001

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

• The Slippery Slope Approaches in Colombia: Buildup of U.S. Troops Begins, February 28, 2003
  

Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

• Colombian Anti-Drug Package Briefing Paper, April 28, 2000

Cultural Survival Quarterly

• Volume 26.4: "Indigenous Responses to Plan Colombia," December 2002

Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia (Government Ombudsman / Public Ministry)

• [Español, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Resolución Defensorial No. 26: Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario en el Marco del Conflicto Armado y de las Fumigaciones de Coca en el Departamento del Putumayo, October 9, 2002
• [Español] Letter from Ombudsman Eduardo Cifuentes to Justice Minister Rómulo González regarding aerial fumigation program, July 22, 2002
• Executive summary in English of position on aerial eradication, July 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Análisis al “Informe Final; Estudio de las Denuncias de Daños a la Salud Relacionadas con la Erradicación Aérea en Colombia," por Doctora Maria Elena Arroyave, Defensoria del Pueblo de Colombia, May 2002
• [Español] Posición de la Defensoría del Pueblo: La ejecución de la estrategia de erradicación aérea de los cultivos ilícitos, con químicos, desde una perspectiva constitucional,18 de abril del 2002
• [Español] Seguimiento a la Resolución Defensorial No. 4 del 12 de Febrero de 2001, 16 de abril del 2001
• Ombudsman proves impact of fumigation on 11 projects for alternative development, February 12, 2001 [English | Español]
• [Español] Informe Defensorial No. 1 - Fumigaciones Y Proyectos De Desarrollo Alternativo En El Putumayo, 9 de febrero del 2001

Derechos.org (Equipo Nizkor)

• El Plan Colombia: sus efectos sobre la guerra y la paz, por Alejo Vargas Velásquez, Septiembre de 2000
• El Plan Colombia y sus críticos, por James Petras, 26 de julio de 2000
• Plan Colombia: ¿Construcción de paz o sobredosis de guerra? por Ricardo Vargas Meza, 2 de junio de 2000
• Lo que Colombia necesita: Alternativa al Plan Colombia Para la cooperación nacional e internacional, por Héctor Mondragón, 24 de abril de 2000
• El Plan Colombia: el escalamiento del conflicto social y armado, por Piedad Córdoba Ruiz, 7 de abril de 2000

Diocese of Mocoa-Sibundoy, Putumayo

• [In Spanish] "Informe: visita sobre terreno al departamento de Putumayo," 17-21 de marzo del 2000 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Diocese of Quibdó, Chocó

• Second open letter to the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, with regard to the crisis of state legitimacy in the Atrato region (translated by Catholic Relief Services), April 27, 2005

EarthJustice

• Comments on State Department Numbers on Coca Cultivation in Colombia, by Anna Cederstav, February 27, 2003
• "Validity of the reports presented by the US Department of State as evidence that no human health impacts are caused by the 'Plan Colombia' aerial herbicide spraying in coca-producing regions," memo by Staff Scientist Ana Cederstav, March 2002

Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights (Ecuador)

• Plan Colombia and its Consequences in Ecuador, March 16, 2001

Environmental Research Foundation

• Echoes of Vietnam, by Rachel Massey, December 7, 2000

European Union

• European Parliament resolution on Plan Colombia and support for the peace process in Colombia, February 1, 2001 [English | Spanish]
• [In Spanish] Declaración de la Unión Europea sobre el programa de apoyo europeo al proceso de Paz en Colombia, 24 de octubre de 2000

FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia)

• "EE.UU. y el Proceso de Paz en Colombia," November 5, 2001 [Spanish]
• "EEUU quiere desatar una 'cacería de brujas' mundial," September 19, 2001 [Spanish]
• "Washington Prepares for War in South America," from FARC publication Resistencia 25, February 2001 [English | Spanish]
• Declaration, January 26, 2001 [Spanish]
• Declaration, October 2000 [Spanish]
• Letter to the U.S. Congress, March 29, 2000 [Spanish]
• Letter to the U.S. Congress, March 14, 2000 [English | Spanish]

Fellowship of Reconciliation

• "Building from the Inside Out: Peace Initiatives in War-Torn Colombia," December 2004

Foreign Policy in Focus (Institute for Policy Studies / Interhemispheric Resource Center)

• Colombia: Old Domino's New Clothes, by Conn Hallinan, March 15, 2004
• Alternative Development Won't End Colombia's War, by Jason Thor Hagen, May 2001
• Colombia in Crisis, by Andrew Miller, May 2001
• Coming of Age in Colombia:
  "No Podemos Perder La Esperanza," by América Esmeralda Montañez Puche, May 2001
• Colombia: Rules of the Game, by Winifred Tate, February 2001
• The "Ugly American Problem"
  in Colombia, by Frida Berrigan, February 2001
• Bush’s Foreign Policy in Latin America: Colombia and U.S. Drug Policy, by Coletta Youngers, January 2001
• Into the Quagmire: Colombia and the War on Drugs, by Coletta Youngers, May 2000
  
• In Focus: Colombia in Crisis, by Carlos Salinas, March 2000 [Web (.html) format | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• U.S. Policy in Colombia: Towards a Vietnam Quagmire, by Carlos Salinas, March 7, 2000
• In Focus: Colombia’s Role in International Drug Industry, by Winifred Tate, November 1999

Friends Committee on National Legislation

• Letter to Congress: Oppose Military Aid to Colombia, March 7, 2000

Global Exchange

• Colombia: Washington's Next Dirty War, by Jason Mark, June 1, 2000
• Top Ten Reasons To Oppose US Military Aid To Colombia

Government of Ecuador

• [In Spanish] Questions from Ecuadorian government, "Seminario Taller Sobre Erradicación de Cultivos Ilícitos en Colombia y sus Posibles Efectos Nocivos en Ecuador," February 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Grupo Civil de Monitoreo de los Impactos del Plan Colombia en Ecuador (Ecuador)

• Statement, October 16, 2000 [Spanish]

Human Rights Watch

• "A Wrong Turn: The Record of the Colombian Attorney General's Office," November 8, 2002 [English | Español]
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification IV," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 10, 2002
• Letter from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 5, 2002
• Rebuttal of Bush Administration human rights certification justification, May 16, 2002
• Press release regarding Bush Administration human rights certification decision, May 1, 2002
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification III," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, February 5, 2002 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Human Right Watch site)
• The “Sixth Division”: Military-paramilitary Ties and U.S. Policy in Colombia, September 2001 [English | Español]
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification II," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, January 12, 2001 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Amnesty Intl. site)
• "Colombia Certification," document from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, August 28, 2000 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] version; link from Amnesty Intl. site; link from WOLA site)
• Europe Must Support Colombia Civil Society, Address Human Emergency, statement, October 24, 2000
• Human Rights the Priority for Clinton Trip to Colombia, press release, August 28, 2000
• Clinton's Colombia Waiver "a Grave Mistake," press release, August 23, 2000
• Colombia Fails Human Rights Requirements of U.S. Aid Package, press release, August 21, 2000
• Letter from José Miguel Vivanco, executive director, Americas Division, to Rep. Sonny Callahan (R-Alabama), March 15, 2000
  • Letter from Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, to Rep. Sonny Callahan (R-Alabama), March 9, 2000
• The Ties That Bind: Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links, February 2000 (English | Spanish)
• Letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, February 23, 2000

Independent consultants

• UNODC consultant James Jones: An Overview of Alternative Development in the South American Andes, September 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• UNODC consultant James Jones: Alternative Development in the South American Andes: Report of Findings, December 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Institute for Policy Studies

• "Just Say No" to a Militarized Drug War, by Sanho Tree, director, Drug Policy Project, December 1999

Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

• Alternative Development Strategies in Colombia: The need to move beyond illicit crop spraying, August 2006
  • (PDF) Executive summary in English
  • (PDF) Report in Spanish

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Center for Public Integrity)

• U.S. Military Aid to Latin America
  Linked to Human Rights Abuses, July 2001 [English | Español]

International Labor Rights Fund

• Lawsuit against DynCorp, Inc., September 2001

Jesuit Office of Social and International Ministries

• In All Things special issue: Why Colombia? Why Now? Spring/Summer 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Latin America Working Group (LAWG Education Fund)

• "September's Shadow: Post-9/11 U.S.-Latin American Relations," October 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• "Going to Extremes: The U.S.-Funded Aerial Eradication Program in Colombia," by Betsy Marsh, February 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• "The Wrong Road: Colombia's National Security Policy," July 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Top Ten Myths about the U.S. Supported Aerial Coca Eradication Program in Colombia, July 22, 2003
• Coca Cultivation in Colombia: The Story Behind the Numbers, February 27, 2003
• "Blunt Instrument: The United States' punitive fumigation program in Colombia," October 14, 2002 [HTML | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)]
• Senate Votes on Colombia Package; Bill Goes to Conference Committee; Act Now! October 26, 2001
• Ten questions for Colombia policy, May 18, 2001
• No Military Aid to Colombia - No Fumigation, March 29, 2001
• [In Spanish] Speech by Lisa Haugaard, legislative coordinator, Bogotá, Colombia, June 15, 2000
• U.S. Eyes Remain Wide Shut as Congressional Committee Votes Yes for U.S. Aid to Colombian Army, March 10, 2000
• Action Alert: Urge US Congress to support peace process, December 1999

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

• Lawyers Committee Calls for Rigorous Conditions
  On Military Aid to Colombia, June 26, 2000
• Entrenched impunity for human right violations may cause U.S. support to backfire, June 2000

Lutheran World Relief

• Issue Update Conflict in Colombia December 6, 2000
• Action Alert Stop US Military Aid to Colombia, December 6, 2000

Middle Magdalena Development and Peace Program

• Statement, June 16, 2000

Mennonite Central Committee

• Newsletter A Call for Solidarity with Colombian Mennonites, April-June 2000
• The Bread of Life, Bonnie Klassen, April-June 2000
• Interview with Ricardo Esquivia, April-June 2000
• Indigenous Peoples in Colombia, Hector Mondragon, April-June 2000
• Voices that Sing and Ask, Martha Santanilla, April-June 2000
• Conscientious Objection in Colombia, Maricely Parada, April-June 2000
• Beyond the Drug War, Rachelle Schlabach, April-June 2000
• A Mennonite Vision for Peace in Colombia (Sanctuaries for Peace), Jenny Neme and Pablo Stucky, April-June 2000
• Press Release Money will escalate war, March 17, 2000
• Press Release Colombian Mennonites ask for "Investment in Peace," February 19, 2000
• Statement Taxpayers invited to transform tax dollars, 2000

Mennonite Colombian Church

• Statement Iglesia Cristiana Menonita En Solidaridad con los desplazados de Tulua y Buga, Pedro Stucky, September 2000
• Statement A call from the Colombian churches, September 10, 2000
• Statement An urgent call from Colombia, July 1, 2000

Asociación MINGA (Colombia)

• [In Spanish] Elementos de análisis: Situación del Bajo Putumayo y la frontera con Ecuador, 9 de marzo de 2005 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Nariño Department - Governors and Mayors

National Council of Churches

• Press release and resolution, February 27, 2001
• Testimony Honoring the Promise of Jubilee: Reject Funding for Ineffective and Abusive Anti-Narcotics Programs, March 30, 2000.
• Testimony Effective Compassionate Foreign Assistance: Reject Funding for Ineffective and Abusive Anti-Narcotics Programs, March 4, 1999

National Security Archive

• Electronic Briefing Book No. 69: Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S.-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002, May 3, 2002

OIDHACO (Oficina Internacional de Derechos Humanos Acción Colombia)

• Plan Colombia: A Strategy Without A Solution, June 3, 2000 [English | Spanish]

OIPAZ (Observatorio Internacional por la Paz, Ecuador)

• Informe de Seguimiento a la Situación de la Frontera Enero – Diciembre 2003 [Español - formato Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)]
• Report of Verification Mission, "Impacts in Ecuador of fumigations in Putumayo as part of Plan Colombia," by a coalition of Ecuadorian groups, October 2002 [English | Español - formato Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)]

OPIAC (Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonía Colombiana)

• Impactos de las Fumigaciones Sobre los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonía Colombiana, November 17, 2000 [Spanish]

Partido Comunista Colombiano

• Plan Colombia: Intervención y guerrerismo, por Carlos Lozano Guillén, 14 de mayo del 2002 [Spanish]
• Reflexiones del Partido Comunista Colombiano Sobre Plan Colombia, October 13, 2000 [Spanish]

Paz Colombia
An NGO coalition that sponsored an October 16-18, 2000 meeting in Costa Rica between civil society, the Colombian government, and the ELN guerrillas

• Las Cifras del Horror, 10 de diciembre del 2001 [Español - Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Communiqué: Paz Colombia ante el gobierno de USA - Paramilitarismo, Ayuda Militar y Fumigaciones, 20 de noviembre del 2000 [Spanish]
• Consensus declaration, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• Declaration of coordinating organizations, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• ELN declaration [Spanish]
• FARC communiqué [Spanish]
• Declaration of international NGOs, 17 de octubre de 2000 [English | Spanish]
• Opening speech of Jorge Rojas, director, Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento [Spanish]
• Comisión I: Paz, Derechos Humanos, Derecho Internacional Humanitario, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• Comisión II: Implicaciones sociales, economicas, politicas e internacionales de la lucha contra el narcotrafico y la corresponsabilidad internacional, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• Comisión III: Crisis economica y social en Colombia, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• Comisión IV: Cuestión Agraria y Alternativas para el Desarrollo Rural, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]
• Comisión V: Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo Alternativo, 18 de octubre de 2000 [Spanish]

Permanent Assembly of Civil Society for Peace / Asamblea Permanente de la Sociedad Civil por la Paz

• Comunicado de Prensa de la Asamblea Permanente de la Sociedad Civil por la Paz sobre la certificación otorgada por E.U. a Colombia en materia DD.HH, 10 de julio de 2003 [Español]

Pesticide Action Network

• Action Alert: Urge the U.S. EPA to Fully Evaluate Aerial Herbicide Spraying in Colombia, July 26, 2002

Presbyterian Church (USA)

• Action Alert Military Aid for Colombia, May 17, 2000

Putumayo Department - Governors and Mayors

• "Un Putumayo Sin Coca, con Justicia Social Pero Sin Fumigación," includes detailed information about alternative-development programs in Putumayo, February 27, 2002 [Spanish]
• [In Spanish] "Por un Putumayo Sin Coca, con Justicia Social Pero Sin Fumigación," Concejo Municipal de Puerto Asís, Putumayo, Agosto del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Letter to Colombian Congress, July 26, 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] "Efectos de la Fumigación," Informe Preliminar, Departamento Administrativo de Salud, Gobernación del Putumayo, Febrero del 2001 [Spanish]
  • Informe Final [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [In Spanish] Municipio de Valle del Guamuez: Consolidado general de pérdidas por la fumigación hasta el día 21 de febrero de 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Manifiesto de las Autoridades y Comunidades del Departamento del Putumayo: Putumayo Sin Coca, No a la Fumigación, July 25, 2000 [Spanish]

Rand Corporation

• Treatment: Effective (But Unpopular) Weapon Against Drugs, Spring 1995

Rapalmira (Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y Alternativas - América Latina)

• Cultivos Ilícitos y Guerra Biológica, compilado por Elsa Nivia de RAPALMIRA-Colombia y editado por Luis Gomero de RAP-AL Andino, diciembre 2001 [Spanish]
• Las fumigaciones aéreas sobre cultivos ilícitos sí son peligrosas – Algunas aproximaciones, Elsa Nivia, Directora Ejecutiva, mayo de 2001 [Spanish]

Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy

• U.S. Intervention in Colombia: Fighting a War Against Drugs or a War for Oil and Political Hegemony?, October 2000

Resource Center of the Americas

• In Colombia, U.S. Companies Get Down to Business, by Julia Olmstead, June 2002
• Oil Rigged, by Thad Dunning and Leslie Wirpsa, February 2001
• Too Deadly to Ignore, by Pam Costain, January 2001
  
• U.S. Announces Military Aid, January 2000
• Fumigation Proves Futile, by Winifred Tate, 1999
• U.S. Douses Fire With Gas, by Adam Isacson, 1999
• CIA Counternarcotics Networks Foster Death Squads, by Frank Smyth, 1998

Jairo Marcos Restrepo (Graphic Artist)

• [PDF] US Money for the War on Drugs in Colombia, July 2006
• [PDF] Aerial eradication through Plan Colombia, July 2006
• [PDF] Biochemical war in Colombia? July 2006

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

• Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, February 5, 2002

Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres (Colombia)

• [In Spanish] Declaración de la Movilización al Putumayo, 25 de noviembre de 2003

Sierra Club

• Lethal Dose, by Vikki Kratz, Sierra Magazine, July-August 2002

U.S. Committee for Refugees

• Letter to President Clinton Concerning Security Assistance to Colombia, July 31, 2000
• Senate Approves $1 Billion "Aid" Package to Colombia; Advocates Fear More Displacement, June 2000
• Proposed US Aid Package to Colombia, February 14, 2000
• An Appeal for U.S. Assistance to Displaced Colombians, February 1, 2000

U.S. Institute of Peace

• "Harbingers of Hope: Peace Initiatives in Colombia," by Virginia Bouvier, August 2006
• Civil Society under Siege in Colombia, by Virginia Bouvier, February 2004

Unión Sindical Obrera (Colombian Oil Workers' Union)

• La USO Frente al Plan Colombia, October 2000 [Spanish]

United Steelworkers of America

• Letter from Leo Gerard, president, April 23, 2002

University of Oslo

• [PDF] The Control of Private Security Companies: A Study of the Relationship between the United States and Private Actors in Plan Colombia, masters' thesis by Anders Somme Hammer, May 22, 2006

Veterans for More Effective Drug Strategies

• Do Not Escalate US Military Involvement in Colombia's Drug War, April 25, 2000

Washington Office on Latin America

• [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] “The Colombian Conflict: Regional Impact and Policy Responses,” by Kimberly Stanton, September 2005
• [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] “Are We There Yet? Measuring Progress in the U.S. War on Drugs in Latin America,” December 2004
• Drugs and Democracy in Latin America, book released November 30, 2004; Executive summary (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format)
• [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] "Ecuador Gets Colombia’s Drift — Aerial Eradication of Coca Crops on the Border," by Sandra Edwards, June 2004
• "Protecting the Pipeline: The U.S. Military Mission Expands," May 2003
• "U.S. Involvement Deepens As Armed Conflict Escalates In Colombia," by Virginia Bouvier on the U.S. Institute for Peace website, May 12, 2003
• "Uribe's People: Civilians and the Colombian Conflict," by Jason Hagen, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2003 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format)
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification IV," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 10, 2002
• Letter from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, September 5, 2002
• Press release regarding Bush Administration human rights certification decision, May 1, 2002
• Colombia Monitor issue one, March 2002 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format)
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification III," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, February 5, 2002 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Human Right Watch site)
• "Colombia Human Rights Certification II," from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, January 12, 2001 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] document from Amnesty Intl. site)
• "Colombia Certification," document from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America, August 28, 2000 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] version; link from Amnesty Intl. site; link from WOLA site)
• WOLA position against certifying Colombia to receive U.S. assistance, July 27, 2000
• WOLA’s concerns regarding use of Fusarium to fight drugs in Colombia, July 21, 2000
• U.S. International Drug Policy: A Guide for Citizen Action, May 1999

Witness for Peace

• The Real Costs of Pipeline Protection in Colombia: Corporate Welfare with Deadly Consequences, A Witness for Peace Report from Arauca, July 2002 (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] version)
  
• Counterinsurgency Just Won't Work in Colombia! February 2002
• "Deadly Fumigation Returns to Putumayo: Violations of Colombian Law and U.S. Conditions," December 7, 2001 [English | Español]
  • Response from U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Anne Patterson, February 22, 2002
• Colombia: why you should care (colombiamobilization.org), September 2001
• Fact Sheet on Colombia, September 2001

World Wildlife Fund

• Letter to Sen. Russell Feingold regarding herbicide spraying in Colombia, November 21, 2001
• Chicago Tribune op-ed by WWF President Kathryn S. Fuller, July 23, 2001
• Comments on glyphosate, October 30, 2000

American Enterprise Institute

• Facing Up to the Conflict in Colombia, by Mark Falcoff, February 23, 2004
• Colombia: A Questionable Choice of Objectives, by Mark Falcoff, March 2002
• Colombia: The Problem That Will Not Go Away, by Mark Falcoff, March 2000

Anti-Narcotics Division (DIRAN), Colombian National Police

• [Español] Estado General Trámite de Quejas (a table showing numbers of complaints of fumigation of legal crops, and the number that have been investigated and compensated), June 2004 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Colombia: Failed, Failing, or Just Weak? by Phillip McLean, The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Council on Foreign Relations

• Andes 2020: A New Strategy for the Challenges of Colombia and the Region, January 2004

Council on Foreign Relations / Inter-American Dialogue

• "Toward Greater Peace and Security in Colombia," final report of an independent task force, Sen. Bob Graham and Gen. Brent Scowcrowft, co-chairs, written by Michael Shifter, October 2000 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format; CFR link | IAD link]
• First Steps Toward a Constructive U.S. Policy in Colombia, report of an independent task force, Sen. Bob Graham and Gen. Brent Scowcroft, co-chairs, March 23, 2000 [CFR link | IAD link]
• Press release announcing the task force report, March 23, 2000 [CFR link | IAD link]

Embassy of Colombia to the United States

• Remarks by Colombian Defense Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez, Washington, October 8, 2002
• Briefing Paper: The results of Plan Colombia’s implementation as of May 2001
• Remarks by Ambassador Luis Alberto Moreno, University of Notre Dame, March 26, 2001
• Press release from Embassy of Colombia to the United States, February 13, 2001
• Why the U.S. Congress should support the Clinton Administration's proposed assistance package to Colombia, February 2000

Heritage Foundation

• Helping Colombia Sustain Progress Toward Peace, by Stephen Johnson, October 19, 2005
• Restructure Aid to Colombia, by Stephen Johnson, May 23, 2003 [Web (.html) format | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Helping Colombia Fix Its Plan to Curb Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Insurgency, by Stephen Johnson, April 26, 2001 [Web (.html) format | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
  
• The President's Flawed Plan to Aid Colombia, by Stephen Johnson, March 10, 2000 [Web (.html) format | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Tread Cautiously in Colombia's Civil War, by John P. Sweeney, March 25, 1999 [Web (.html) format | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

• "Colombia's War: Toward a New Strategy," by Jay Cope, October 2002 [HTML | Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• “Colombia: Strategic End State, Goals, and Means … A Workshop Report,” David Spencer and Heather Noss (with the CNA Corporation), November 2000 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Crisis? What Crisis? Security Issues in Colombia, by James Zackrison, 1999 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format: English | Español]

International Crisis Group

• Colombia's Elusive Quest for Peace, March 26, 2002
  

Ministry of Defense, Government of Colombia

• [Español, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format] Documento de la Política de Seguridad Democrática, June 29, 2003
• [Español] Políticas de Defensa Nacional, 1999-2001: Discursos del Ministro de Defensa Luis Fernando RamÌrez Acuña [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] El Narcotráfico: Una Amenaza para la Seguridad Nacional, November 2000 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Resultados Operacionales Fuerza Pública 1999 y 2000, Marzo del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

North-South Center, University of Miami

• The United States and Colombia: The Journey from Ambiguity to Strategic Clarity, by Gabriel Marcella, March 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• In Search of the Endgame: A Long-Term Multilateral Strategy for Colombia, by Myles Frechette, February 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Europe: Neither Plan Colombia, nor Peace Process — From Good Intentions to High Frustration, by Joaquín Roy, January 2003 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• Colombia’s Conflicts: The Spillover Effects of a Wider War, by Richard Millett with a Preface by Ambler H. Moss, Jr. and a Foreword by Max G. Manwaring, September 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• The U.S. Engagement with Colombia: Legitimate State Authority and Human Rights, by Gabriel Marcella, March 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Presidency, Government of Colombia

• [Español] Status report on delivery of economic aid in municipalities of Putumayo, February 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Status report on "Programa de Obras para la Paz Putumayo," February 7, 2002 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]
• [Español] Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Alternativo - Acciones Realizadas en el Año 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format - large document]
• [Español] "Informe de Gestión: Fondo de Inversión para la Paz (FIP) / Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Alternativo (Plante)," Contraloría Delegada de Gestión Pública e Instituciones Financieras, Gobierno de Colombia, 4 de octubre del 2001 [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format - large document]

Rand Corporation

• Colombian Labyrinth: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency and Its Implications for Regional Stability, by Angel Rabasa and Peter Chalk, June 2001

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

• Colombian Army Adaptation to FARC Insurgency, by Thomas Marks, January 2002
• Colombia's Paramilitaries: Criminals or Political Force? by David Spencer, December 2001
• The Drug Scourge as a Hemispheric Problem, by General Barry R. McCaffrey, U.S. Army (Retired), August 2001
• The Regional Security Crisis in the Andes: Patterns of State Response, by Dr. Judith A. Gentleman, July 2001
• U.S. Security Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Why Colombia, Why Now, and What Is To Be Done?, by Dr. Max G. Manwaring, June 2001
• Plan Colombia: Some Differing Perspectives, by Dr. Gabriel Marcella, retired U.S. Marine Corps General Charles E. Wilhelm, Colombian General Alvaro Valencia Tovar, Dr. Ricardo Arias Calderon, and Mr. Chris Marquis, June 2001
• The Search for Accountability and Transparency in Plan Colombia: Reforming Judicial Institutions--Again, by Luz Estella Nagle, May 2001
• Plan Colombia: The View From the Presidential Palace, by Eduardo Pizano, May 2001
• European Perceptions of Plan Colombia: A Virtual Contribution to a Virtual War and Peace Plan? by Joaquin Roy, May 2001
  
• U.S. Support of Plan Colombia: Rethinking the Ends and Means, by Stephen E. Flynn, May 2001
• Fighting the Hobbesian Trinity in Colombia: A New Strategy for Peace, by Colonel Joseph R. Nunez, April 2001
  
• Plan Colombia: The Strategic and Operational Imperatives, by Gabriel Marcella, April 2001
• The United States and Colombia: Untying the Gordian Knot, by Ambassador David Passage, March 2000