May '09 Newsletter Articles Online

FOC President’s Letter OAS Assembly Strategic Giving Return to Dibulla, Part 2 Dreaming Barranquilla Letter from President Uribe Website Promotes Global Unity

Notes from the Field Colombia RPCV Receives Award NPCA Report Ned's Beans Letter to Editor Bob Arias to Panama Treasurer's Report

Colombia Project News -- 7/19/08

Website updated ● Activities since reunion ● PayPal added

Colombia III Reunion -- Santa Fe, NM Oct 3-6

Invitation ● Schedule ●  Registration

Storytellers of Colombia

Peter Kapp, Colombia 5 ● Colombia Folktales

Colombia-U.S. Trade Dispute

Recent new articles and editorials are listed below. Send suggestions for other items to website@friendsofcolombia.org.

A Conversation With Álvaro Uribe | April 20, 2008 | WaPo Online NewsHour: Debate | Trade Pact Divides Congress | April 7, 2008 | PBS EDITORIAL; Time for the Colombian Trade Pact Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Killing A Trade Pact

Colombia Push For Trade Pact Casts Wide Net Bush and Pelosi Step Up Clash Over Trade Pact Forgetting Colombia in Debate Over Free Trade Pact: Unproductive Reaction from Colombia 's Left Pelosi offers some hope for U.S.-Colombia trade deal Marching Backward on Trade Latin America looks within for growth

Cartagena Conference Feb 4-7 2008

Shared photos from the conference >>   Helene Dudley,   Jim and Sandy Kolb,   David Miron   Howard Ellegant  

Media on Conference

President Uribe awards National Order of Merit to 'Friends of Colombia', 5 Feb El Colombiano, Medellin, 12 Feb Maureen Orth's school Cronica Fortuna, Barranquilla video on a RPCV's return to her barrio Cronica Eliana video ...

El Espectador, Bogota, 9 Feb Sam Farr  El Tiempo, Bogota, 26 Jan. Peace Corp Press Release on Conference Embassy Press Release on Cartagena Conference Participant List Agenda and Travel Tips