Leader of Displaced People Killed in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Latin American Herald Tribune

Caracas,
Sunday
November 7,2010

Leader of Displaced People Killed in Colombia


BOGOTA – The president of an association of displaced people in northeastern Colombia was murdered inside her house in the city of Bucaramanga, the Alternative Democratic Pole, or PDA, party’s committee in Santander province said Sunday.

Elizabeth Silva Aguilar was murdered by some hooded men who “entered her humble dwelling” on Friday in Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander, the PDA said. Silva Aguilar, a member of the leftist party, was the head of the Association of Homeless and Displaced People in the city, the PDA said.

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Three members of the association were murdered June 22, while unidentified assailants threw a grenade last month at dwellings in the settlement, the PDA said.

The attacks are apparently being carried out by “recycled paramilitaries who supposedly demobilized,” the PDA said.

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1. I had the opportunity to speak with Daria Quinones a few weeks ago.

She is another leader, who is currently traveling to Universities in the U.S. to describe the conflict in Columbia. Columbians, like Nigerians, Central Appalachians, Gulf Coast residents, and many in the Middle East, are yet more tragic victims of the "resource curse," the loss of land, life, and livelihoods that follows the discovery and extraction of valuable resources from an area. It should be one of the greatest outrages of our time that people almost universally suffer horribly when the valuable contents of their lands do not benefit them, but become more highly valued than their own existence.

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