An organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCV).
We connect Colombia RPCVs and others, and support community-based activities in Colombia.

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