Unit+3+Project

=__**How does dependence on foreign powers affect**__= =__**Colombians' human rights and natural environment today?**__= 

Objective: Create a project in which you analyze the connection between Colombia's lack of independence today with one environmental or human rights problem of your choice.
Choose a partner, and based on at least 2 of the suggested readings (//all on the wiki, as well as videos//), you will choose 1 human rights and/or environmental problem facing Colombia today and create a poster, cartoon, or pamphlet in which you draw a connection between the issue and the influence of foreign powers in your country. Your poster should be accompanied by a 1-3 page reflective essay in which you discuss the background of the problem you choose, how it is impacted by foreign interests, and what you believe should be done to help alleviate it.

//Suggested// //Sources://

//**PLAN COLOMBIA:**// //[|What is Plan Colombia]// [|Plan Colombia, FTAA and Black Communities in the Process of Global Struggle] [|Freakonomics - Plan Colombia: a 5 Billion Dollar Failure?] [|Colombia Journal - Plan Colombia Devastates Afro-Colombian Communities] [|Indigenous People Troubled by U.S. Military Presence] Plan Colombia - A Progress Report [|Plan Colombia: The Harmful Impacts of Aerial Spraying] [|Women & War in Colombia: �None of the Women Make the War, But They All Live It�]

[|The Paramilitary Spearhead of Plan Colombia]
[|10 Years of Plan Colombia: An Analytic Assessment]

//**FREE TRADE AGREEMENT:**//[|U.S. Multinationals in Colombia: Profits and Plundering] //[|Poverty, Human Rights and Canada’s Role in the African Palm Oil Sector]// [|US banana firm hired Colombian paramilitaries] [|Progress or Promises? Free Trade and Labor Rights in Colombia][|The Big Downside of the Colombian FTA][|U.S. "Free Trade": Death, Drugs and Despair in Colombia][|For ‘free trade,’ read instead ‘loss of sovereignty’]

**Others:**[|US bars acclaimed Colombian journalist] [|Attacks on the Press in 2011 - Colombia] [|Threatened after posting video, Colombian journalist flees]

1. [|Shoveling Water](critical view of U.S. aerial fumigations in Colombia) 2. [|Increased U.S. Military presence in Colombia] (in depth presentation 20 min) 3. [|Impact of the FTA with Colombia on Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Communities] 4. [|"Mad Money" on Colombia] (we have already watched these last two in class) 5. [|Militarizacion en America Latina]6. [|Colombia's Gold Rush]
 * //Video Options//**