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The People
Behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights
This book, as the title suggests, is about
the people behind Colombian coal. More precisely, it is about
the people behind the coal produced at El Cerrejón,
the world’s largest open-pit coal mine, which is located
in La Guajira in northern Colombia. The book aims to illustrate
how the multinational mining companies that own El Cerrejón
profit at the expense of the “people” of the Guajira
region whose plight has remained hidden “behind the
Colombian coal” that many of us in North America and
Europe rely on to generate our electricity.
Since the Cerrejón Mine opened in
1983, its operations and constant expansion have forcibly
displaced indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombian communities.
The reports and articles in this book, written by various
Colombians, North Americans and Europeans familiar with the
issue, document this process and the human rights and environmental
consequences.
Authors: Aviva Chomsky, Garry Leech and Steve
Striffler
Publisher: Casa Editorial Pisando Callos
Publishing Date: July 2007
Paperback, 200 pages
ISBN: 9789589799550
USD $12.00
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Crude
Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World
(Dis)Order
At the beginning of the 21st Century, a
new world disorder is emerging in which battles over resources
are playing an increasingly prominent role. The importance
of oil to this picture is underscored by the unilateral
and militaristic foreign policy of the world’s largest
power in its attempt to secure access to this critical resource.
In this global context, oil-rich communities of the South
are being drawn into struggles to defend their sovereignty,
cultural integrity, human rights and threatened ecosystems.
By focusing on the US role in Iraq, Central
Asia, West Africa, Colombia and Venezuela, Crude Interventions
makes evident the connections between energy interests,
the war on terror, globalization, human rights abuses and
other social injustices endured by those peoples of the
South cursed with an abundance of the world’s most
sought after resource.
Author: Garry Leech
Publisher: Zed Books
Publishing Date: September 2006
Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 1842776290
USD $25.00
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Killing Peace:
Colombia's Conflict and the Failure of US Intervention
Over the past half-century, Colombia has
been plagued by violence—its people caught in the middle
of a civil conflict raging between the army, leftist guerrillas,
right-wing paramilitaries, narco-traffickers, and U.S. anti-drug
warriors. Killing Peace: Colombia's Conflict and the
Failure of U.S. Intervention provides a timely and much-needed
overview of the war that is ravaging Colombia including
its root causes in the country's gross social and economic
inequalities.
Drawing from on-the-ground reporting as
well as historical sources, Killing Peace addresses
all aspects of the Colombian conflict, particularly the
dangerous and expanding involvement of the United States
as part of its drug war—and now the "war on terror."
Author: Garry Leech
Publisher: Inota
Publishing Date: April 2002
Paperback, 116 pages with photos
ISBN: 0-9720384-0-X
USD $10.00
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Bajo
el Manto del Carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las
minas de El Cerrejón, Colombia
Bajo el Manto del Carbón,
así como su título lo sugiere, se trata de los
pueblos invisibles detrás de la minería de carbón
en Colombia. Más precisamente, se trata de los pueblos
alrededor de El Cerrejón, la mina de carbón
a cielo abierto más grande del mundo, ubicada en el
departamento de La Guajira al noreste del país. Nuestro
objetivo de dar a conocer la forma en que las compañías
mineras multinacionales dueñas de El Cerrejón
devengan sus ganancias a expensas de los pueblos que habitan
la región de La Guajira, y de cómo su difícil
situación se ha mantenido oculta “bajo el manto
del carbón” que muchos de nosotros en Norteamérica
y Europa usamos para producir nuestra electricidad.
Compiladores: Aviva Chomsky, Garry Leech
y Steve Striffler
Editor: Casa Editorial Pisando Callos
Julio de 2007
223 paginas
ISBN: 9789589799536
USD $12.00
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EE.UU.,
el Petróleo y el (des)orden Mundial
En este libro se examina la política
económica y military de la administración
Bush en las diversas regions del mundo ricas en petróleo.
Con solo el 4% de la población mundial, los EE.UU.
consumen el 25 % de la producción energetica.
Al concentrarse en el papel de los EE.UU.
en Irak, Asia Central, Africa Occidental, Colombia y Venezuela.
Este libro desvela las conexiones entre los intereses energéticos
de EE.UU., la guerra contra el terrorismo, la globalización,
los abusos en derechos humanos y otras innumerables injusticias
socials padecidas por los pueblos del Sur en esta frenética
carrera.
Autor: Garry Leech
Editor: Editorial Popular
Junio de 2007
290 paginas
ISBN: 8478843612
€uros 13.36
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