Tara Tidwell
Managing Editor
Cultural Survival Quarterly
PRESS RELEASE
Date: November 25, 2002
Contact: Tara Tidwell
617.441.5408
Cultural Survival Quarterly
Winter 2003 Issue - Available December
15
Indigenous Responses to Plan Colombia
Guest Edited by Theodore Macdonald and
David Edeli
As battles rage in the Andean region among
paramilitaries, the Colombian military, and guerilla groups such as the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), indigenous people who live at
the center of the conflict find themselves fighting for their own lives. The
Winter 2003 issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly is an unprecedented collection
of narratives from the indigenous people who witness the consequences of the
Plan Colombia anti-drug policy first-hand. They tell stories of horror in the
face of militarization and crop fumigation, and of successful cultural and
political resistance. The narratives are supplemented by analytical articles
covering the major factors of Plan Colombia, making this issue a must-read for
any decision-maker, activist, or scholar concerned about the U.S.-funded
drug policy in South America.
EDITORIAL LINEUP
Narratives translated from interviews with indigenous leaders from
throughout the Andean region:
- Armando Valbuena, president of the National
Indigenous Organization of Colombia
- José Soria, president of the Organization for
Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon
- Leónida Zurita Vargas, a leader of the Bolivian
coca-growers movement, president of the women’s branch of the
Federation of the Cochabamba Tropics, and president of the Six
Federations of the Tropics of Cochabamba
- Maria Eugenia Choque & Carlos Mamani, directors
of the Center of Aymara Studies, La Paz, Bolivia
- Carlina Urdaneta, leader of the Network of Indigenous Guayú Women and member
of the Plan Colombia Working
Group of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of
Venezuela
- Edwin Vasquez, Huitoto Indian from the Peruvian
border
- Sebastiao Manchineri, president of the Coordinating
Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin
- Additional anonymous narratives from indigenous
leaders in Putumayo and Ecuador border regions.
Analytical articles:
- Voices of the Unvanquished: Indigenous Responses to
Plan Colombia. By Theodore Macdonald & David Edeli
- The Battle for Putumayo. By Kyle Richardson
- Advocates or Obstacles? NGOs and Plan Colombia. By
Nataly Fletcher
- Spraying Crops, Eradicating People. By Judith
Walcott
- Indigenous Voices in Washington, D.C. By Betsy Marsh
- Innovative Resistance
in Cauca. By Joanne Rappaport
- The Ones Who Preserve our Identity: Women, Children,
and Plan Colombia. By Katrina Kosec
- Colombia’s Expanding War. By David Edeli & Kyle
Richardson
Also in this issue:
- The Massachusetts Connection: Colombia Indigenous Bring Coal Mine Concerns to
U.S. By Aviva Chomsky
- Mohawk Family Hopes to Reclaim Identity in Canadian Court. By Celeste
Mackenzie
- Our Culture is Our Resistance. A photo essay of clandestine grave exhumations
in Guatemala. By Jonathan Moller
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