Communities Denounce National Army for Assassination of Peasant Leader On October 28, peasant communities of Corinto-Cauca reported that members of the National Army detained and murdered Flower Jair Trompeta Paví, social leader and member of the Asociación de Trabajadores Pro-Constitución Zonas de Reserva Campesina de Caloto -ASTRAZONACAL-. The community said that the social leader was…
Category: ASSASSINATIONS
Brazil: Supreme Court May Investigate Involvement of Jair Bolsonaro in Marielle Franco’s Murder
Brasil Wire Globo’s Jornal Nacional has reported that one of those involved in the March 14 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco was in President Jair Bolsonaro’s condominium on the day of the murder, and was registered as a visitor for Jair Bolsonaro. The accused reportedly visited military police officer Ronnie Lessa,…
Honduras: The Murder of Garífuna Teacher Digna Montero and the State’s Failure to Comply with the Sentence of the IACHR
The murder of the teacher Garífuna Digna Montero, which took place in the afternoon of October 12 in the community of Cusuna, is related to the defense of the ancestral territory of our people. The assassins, apparently mestizos from the community of Río Miel, escaped from the scene, driving motorcycles, leaving no time for the…
OFRANEH Declaration on the Extermination of the Leaders and Members of the Garifuna Communities
We, the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH), express our deep concern about the escalation of violent deaths and the extermination of the inhabitants of the Garifuna communities, mainly women, without any investigation by the authorities into these murders. So far in the months of September and October, six (6) Garifuna women have been violently murdered…
FARC Party Denounces Murders of Peace Signatories in Colombia
The Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Common (FARC) party denounced on Sunday the murder of peace signatories in Colombia, where they are frequent victims of violence. “They continue murdering peace signatories in different parts of the country,” the political group said through its Twitter account after learning that another former combatant in the process of…
Two Months After the Ticoporo Massacre, Voices Rise Demanding Justice
Mother, fathers. wife, husbands. sister, brothers, militants. Brigadistas. Chavistas. On a day like yesterday, exactly two months ago we lost five compañeros and one compañera. They were massacred in a meticulously planned operation. Two months and a day ago, 15 children were left without parents or a mother. During the last two months we have…
US Drone Massacres in Afghanistan
We take a look into the drone massacres and how video gamers have been recruited by US forces to kill with a press of a button sitting thousands of miles away. More than 70 Afghan civilians were killed in US drone/ covert airstrikes in last week. We take look into the drone massacres and how…
The Brink of Extinction in Colombia
Evan King and Samantha Wherry The boat ride to Pichima Quebrada—a small Wounaan Indigenous community located along the San Juan River in Colombia’s Pacific region—is surrounded by lush flora, fauna, and the smell of fresh air. The Wounaan women use the werregue palm trees for traditional basket weaving and the crabs hiding in the roots…
One Month After the Ticoporo Massacre: La Corriente Communiqué
Today marks exactly one month since the murder of five men and one woman militants of the Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current in the Ticoporo Forest Reserve, municipality of Sucre in the state of Barinas. José Gerardo Rojas, Alexis Ontiveros Mora, Eudis Jhoncley Rojas Peña, Kevin Alirio Navas Rodríguez, Milagdis Oliday Garrido Navas and Manuel…
Indigenous Movements in Colombia Declare a State of Emergency Over Assassinations
Peoples Dispatch Indigenous Guardia attends the funeral of Gersaín Yatacué who was assassinated on August 1 in Caloto, Cauca. The banner reads: “They are killing us”. Photo: Twitter On August 10, a day after the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, an armed group attacked a bus transporting members of the Indigenous Guardia who were accompanying…
Two Mass Killings in the US by White Supremacists Within 24 Hours
Peoples Dispatch A Makeshift memorial made by residents of El Paso, Texas, near the mall where the shooting occurred (Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) 29 people died in two separate incidents of mass killings by racist gunmen in the United States on August 4. 20 people died in the city of El Paso in Texas and…
Assassinations of Chavistas, Hidden Violence in Venezuela
Marco Teruggi On Saturday, July 27, six Chavista militants were murdered in the state of Barinas. This event is now known as the Ticoporo Massacre and is evidence of a sustained policy: the murder of grassroots Chavistas, hidden by the mainstream Western media. The crime will be remembered as the Ticoporo Massacre. It happened on…
