<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/42e19c0e-bac4-49c4-9a25-4ffc3cb2963e/70BAB0D7-0E8B-402A-BD7F-731D466FB04F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia"><H1>Biodiesel fuels displacement in Colombia</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia"><P>Former U.S. President George W. Bush advocated for a global increase in the production of biofuels in order to cut revenues of enemy nations such as Venezuela. Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe seeks to make Colombia the world's top biodiesel producer by growing 6 million hectares of African palm by 2020, and over 40 million hectares in the coming decades. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia"> The UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food has labeled biofuels a <A href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3266694,00.html. " target="_blank">crime against humanity</A> because of its impact on global food prices. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia">But the darkest side of the production of biofuels in Colombia is the forced, violent displacement and murder of thousands of people. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia">Colombia has one of the highest displacement rates in the world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia"><P>- 3 million according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19327-Salem-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Biodiesel-fueling-displacement-in-Colombia">"The strategy has been to displace people, and once the territory is abandoned, the palm tree agribusiness occupy them ... 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