Jesuit NGO And FARC?

THE AMERICAS

By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends

July 7, 2008

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An excerpt.

Left-wing NGOs have made undermining the Colombian government's credibility a priority for many years। A 2003 internal report from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá titled "A Closer Look at Human Rights Statistics" confirmed as much.

It found that NGO analyses – for example by the Jesuit-founded Center for Popular Research and Education (Centro de Investigacion y Education Popular) known as Cinep – of the human-rights environment contained a heavy bias against the government while granting a wide berth to guerrillas.

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt। Since the late 1990s, the NGO practice of dragging the military into court on allegations of human rights violations has destroyed the careers of some of the country's finest officers, even though most of these men were found innocent after years of proceedings.

Link to the full Wall Street Journal article (here)

Read Mona Cheran's article on FARC and Columbian US politics (here)