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Colombia’s Contested Grounds

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The Politics of Palm Oil Harm

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Towards the end of August 2016, a peace agreement between the government of President Santos and the FARC was reached but when put to the Colombian people for approval in a referendum held on October 2, 2016, the agreement was rejected with a slight majority of votes.

If anything has generated an impact prior to its arrival, it has been this, it has been palm

(ONIC consultant).

60% of the inhabitants of the Pacific are displaced. And the few people that resist are under pressure from all sides; the air force constantly bombards them under the pretext of fighting the guerrilla, the guerrilla on the other hand to win followers, and the paramilitaries in turn are the ones that represent the Colombian bourgeoisie. Because unfortunately, we stand alone in all of this; the only thing, which isn’t all that clear-cut either, is the little that the international community does and which of course is very much subject to government policy. I’m not saying that they [international cooperation] are malicious, they are fulfilling their mission. But this mission is not directed towards the Colombian people but to the Colombian government, and between these there lies an immense difference

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Mol, H. (2017). Colombia’s Contested Grounds. In: The Politics of Palm Oil Harm. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55378-8_4

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