Peoples Dispatch On February 9 and 10, in Bogota, Colombia, representatives of over 80 social movements and political parties participated in the National Meeting of Social and Political Organizations for the defense of life, land, democracy and peace. The meeting aimed at building a common roadmap for the mobilization of the national strike scheduled in…
Category: COLOMBIA
Colombia’s Social Leaders Declare Solidarity with Venezuela
Social leaders reject U.S. interference in Venezuela and stand in solidarity with the country and its government. Social leaders demonstrated in the city of Cali, in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca, to show solidarity with Venezuela and to reject the interference of the United States (USA) against the country. In an event organized…
Delcy Rodríguez: “Venezuela Must be Removed from this Madness of Violence and War.”
The Vice President of Venezuela in an exclusive interview with RT has addressed the holding of parliamentary elections and international pressure. “We welcome the initiative of the Governments of Uruguay and Mexico, which Bolivia and Caricom [Caribbean Community] also joined in the search for a solution within the framework of dialogue and mainly within the…
Interview with Pablo Beltrán, Chief Negotiator of Colombia’s ELN
Pablo Beltrán in Conversation with Argentine Journalist and Educator Claudia Korol The Original in Spanish, ALBA TV Translation of Transcript and Video Subtitles by Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch From Havana, Cuba the chief of the delegation of peace of the National Liberation Army (ELN) of Colombia, Pablo Beltrán (PB) speaks exclusively with the Argentine journalist…
As US Laments Human Rights in Venezuela, US-Allied Colombia Descends into Drug-fueled Humanitarian Crisis
Whitney Webb Protesters attend a candlelight vigil for activists killed since the signing of the peace accords in Bogota, Colombia, July 6, 2018. Fernando Vergara | AP BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (Analysis) — Several troubling situations are currently playing out across Colombia, yet the country’s continuing downward spiral into drug-fueled and politically-motivated violence has caused little concern…
Venezuelan Government Shows Evidence of Coup Plan with US and Colombian Participation
The coup d’état was coordinated by retired Colonel Oswaldo Valentín García Palomo, who was arrested on Jan. 31 in an intelligence operation in Venezuela. The Venezuelan Minister of Communications, Jorge Rodríguez, held a press conference on Thursday in which he showed evidence of the plan of attempted coup d’état carried out by the rightwing against…
The Havana Declaration of the CLOC Via Campesina Towards the VII Continental Congress
Jan 31, 2019 The delegates of the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC Vía Campesina) gathered in Havana, from 27 to 29 January 2019, in solidarity with the revolution and heroic people of Cuba, on the 60th anniversary of the revolution and of the first agrarian reform law. Revolution that became a beacon of…
Cuba: In Defense of Peace in Colombia
On January 17, the General Police Cadets School Francisco de Paula Santader was the target of a car bomb attack that took a toll on the lives of 21 persons and injured another 68. In the face of this situation, the President of the Councils of State and of Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, sent a…
Colombian Peace Process Suffers Severe Blow as Government Demands Arrest of ELN Leaders
Zoe PC The peace process in Colombia suffered a severe blow when the country’s government demanded the arrest of leaders of the guerila group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), in Havana. The demand by the government came in the aftermath of the January 17 bomb blasts at a police academy in the city of Bogota….
The Colombian Government Declares War on the ELN
The far-right government has indicated that military confrontation and force, not dialogue, is the only way to end the conflict with the ELN. The Colombian government announced the end of the peace process and dialogue with the National Liberation Army (ELN) after accusing the leftist group of being behind the bombing at the Santander General Police School, which left 21 dead and 68…
Colombia Mourns 8th Indigenous Leader Killed in 2019
A report indicates that 34 Awa indigenous leaders were killed in 2018 prompting an immediate government response. Leonardo Nastacuas Rodriguez is the first indigenous leader of the Awa ethnic group that has been murdered in 2019, and the 8th indigenous leader alone since the turn of the year. The 36-year-old Leonardo Nastacuas, the father of…
Killing of Colombian Social Leaders is ‘Systematic’
Referring to a study, Colombia’s attorney general says that social leaders who are members of Communal Action Boards are targeted more frequently by paramilitary groups. Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez says that the greatest number of Colombians murdered over the past two years since the peace agreement was signed are social leaders who serve…
For Women, A Contradictory Peace in Colombia
So long as Colombia’s peace accords fail to contend with the liberal economic order or challenge extractivism and militarism in the country, they will fall short of achieving true gender justice. Kate Paarlberg-Kvam There is much to celebrate about the novelty and importance of the 2016 peace accords between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary…
The Guardia Guarantees Protection of Indigenous People, Peasants and Black People in Colombia
Brasil de Fato “We are all the guardia, carajo!”. Walking in circles, more than a hundred Indigenous people, Black people and peasants – women and men, children and older folks – sung this phrase in harmony. Inside the circle, hundreds of others echoed the cry. This is how the Indigenous, Peasant and Maroon [of the…
Colombia: Senator Alberto Castilla Vows to Continue the Struggle Alongside Social Movements Defending and Building Lasting Peace
Vivian Fernandes The first peasant leader to reach the Colombian Senate, Alberto Castilla Salazar, has a simple posture and great warmth. He dresses the same way, whether he is walking in the halls of the National Congress or is among social activists – jeans and a polo shirt with the brown and beige bag of…
The Fragility of the Colombian Peace Accords and the Reincorporation of Ex-insurgents of the FARC-EP
Ricardo Vaz In this article we discuss the (non-) implementation of the Colombian peace accords, based on a conference given by Victoria Sandino, a leading FARC figure.1 We also examine an initiative, Ecomun, to build peace through the construction of alternative economies in the Colombian countryside. The peace agreement reached in 2016 between the Colombian…
The United States are Preparing a War Between Latin-American States
Little by little, the partisans of the Cebrowski doctrine are advancing their pawns. If they must cease creating wars in the Greater Middle East, they’ll just turn around and inflame the Caribbean Basin. Above all, the Pentagon is planning to assassinate an elected head of state, ruin his country, and undermine the unity of Latin-America….
Colombia: III National Council of Commons Political Declaration
We have always been clear that the implementation is a field in dispute and that this will have greater scope and development, if appropriated by large majorities, based on social and popular organization and mobilization. We will not tire of pointing out that the agreement was not conceived exclusively for ex-guerrillas, but for the whole…
