2.4 million Colombians displaced under Uribe presidency

[Derechos]

Of the 4.9 million Colombians that have been forcefully displaced in the last 25 years, 2.4 million were displaced under the presidency of Alvaro Uribe and his "Democratic Security" policy, according to a recently published report.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7882-24-million-colombians-displaced-under-uribe-presidency.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Many of them flee to Venezuela and Ecuador

Ecuador and Venezuela need more support to deal with Colombian refugees. The situation in Venezuela is especially concerning, according to a report released Tuesday by Refugees International (RI). The report examines Colombia's neighboring countries' abilities to process and deal with displaced Colombian refugees. It found that an estimated 120,000 to 200,000 Colombians are seeking refuge in Venezuela, while in Ecuador around 135,000 are "in need of international protection".

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/ri-in-the-news/colombia-reports-colombian-refugees-ecuador-and-venezuela-need-more-aid
also
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7882-24-million-colombians-displaced-under-uribe-presidency.html
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49725

Not especially good reports, but they have some useful facts.

Venezuela has a law protecting refugees and they are entitled to social services. Ecuador does a quicker job of processing refugees so they can get ID cards. The articles I've read talk about this and that that Venezuela and Ecuador should do, but say nothing about Colombia's responsibility for its 40+ year civil war, the US fomenting it (with $6 BILLION in military aid--the Colombia military has one of the worst human rights records on earth), and the US and the fascists in Colombia sabotaging peaceful settlements of this conflict. Venezuela and Ecuador should be all humanitarian, and take the burden of caring for these refugees--which they are doing--but they also have to take the guff--the slander, the lies, the psyops/disinformation, the US giving multimillions of dollars to rightwing groups, the coup plots, the threats, the seething hostility of a government and its corporate overlords--ours--who want to see these good governments toppled and are lavishly supporting the exceedingly bad government of Colombia, that has displaced 3 million peasant farmers, colludes with death squads, kills union leaders, human rights workers and others, and has impoverished the majority of Colombians.

[Derechos]

2. There are also refugees in Panama

http://www.jrsusa.org/spotlight/colombians_panama/index.php

See also

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-7VZHRL?OpenDocument