…Nick Clegg was addressing a seminar titled Business is Great in Bogotá, as part of the biggest ever British trade delegation to Colombia. He was accompanied by representatives of more than 40 businesses, including HSBC, Rolls-Royce and Shell, as well as delegates from Dundee, Edinburgh and Warwick universities…[Simultaneously] I was reading a communique from a Colombian paramilitary cell, which was sent to me by activists I met during a visit to Colombia last July. It read: "We have now been given the explicit and definitive order to kill the candidates for the Patriotic Union (UP) for Senate and House of Representatives."…The communique also lists leaders from the Patriotic March, Colombia's emerging grassroots movement…[made up of] activists in civil society organisations… The roots of Colombia's civil war…lie in land, and the desire of multinational companies to mine it for resources, despite the fact that peasants are already living there…