In Bogota, Colombia, hundreds of construction workers gathered to protest the lack of food and other essential items in the midst of the national quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A similar protest was held on March 24 at Plaza Bolivar when locals were angered due to the short notice before the imposition of the…
Category: COLOMBIA
Venezuela: Are We Facing a New Insurrectional Escalation Organized by the United States?
Although the actions of the Venezuelan opposition leadership lack all force, the conflict with the United States continues to develop and escalate. The US power elites are moving in the same strategic direction; the line of maximum pressure continues, concentrating efforts on economic aggression that, as is known, is aimed at the collapse of the…
Colombia, Venezuela and Nuestra America: A Conversation with Jesus Santrich of the FARC‐EP
Cira Pascual Marquina The peace process between the FARC-EP guerrilla and the Colombian government has had a profound impact on the region and especially in Venezuela. Venezuela – joined to Colombia by more than 200 years of history, culture, and politics – promoted and sponsored the peace process in its early stages. The post-accord situation…
Camilo Torres Restrepo: The Importance of Unity and Love in the Face of a United Right
Zoe PC Camilo Torres Restrepo with student activists. Photo: Archive In 1958, the key parties of the Colombian oligarchy made a pact to take turns holding the presidency and to distribute all of the bureaucratic and cabinet positions throughout the two parties (Liberal and Conservative). This agreement called the National Front, consolidated and assured the…
The Colombian Crossroads: Advance Peace or the Forces of War Will Impose New Tragedies
Colombian society has taken to the streets en masse to confront a model that brings nothing but misery and blood for its sons and daughters. Uribe’s government via Duque aligns itself with the interests dictated by the United States and advances against the wishes of a population that seeks peace and prosperity. The causes, variables,…
Colombian Government Obstructs the Peace Agreement with the FARC Guerrilla Group
Sebastián Navarrete Aldana < BAR’s reporter in Colombia explores how the US-backed regime is grossly violating the peace agreement with former FARC guerillas. “Ninety percent of the prisoners’ requests to apply the amnesty law have been denied.” As incredible as it may seem, the ultimate manifestation of sabotage by both the current and former governments of…
Colombia: ‘Plan to Exterminate Former Guerrillas is Underway’
In Colombia, “peace is killed every time a social leader or a former guerrilla dies,” ex-President Samper warns. Colombia’s Common Revolutionary Alternative Force (FARC) Thursday denounced the execution of an extermination plan against former guerrilla fighters who are settled in the Ituango Municipality, in Antioquia. The humanitarian situation is particularly serious in the Santa Lucia…
US Soldiers and Contractors Rape 54 Girls in Colombia and Sell the Videos that Show their Crimes
U.S. soldiers and contractors raped at least 54 Colombian girls between 2003 and 2007 in this Latin American country, recorded most of these abuses on video and sold them as pornographic material, according to the “Report of the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims”, prepared by the Colombian government and representatives of the…
Colombia: 20 Social Leaders Assassinated in the First 20 Days of 2020
Fernán Medrano According to the Irish NGO Front Line Defenders, Colombia was the country where most social leaders were killed in 2019 and is the country with the most internal displacement, a record that has been set for four consecutive years from 2015 to 2019. Consequently, the bloodbath of social leaders that concluded the year…
Why did Guaidó go to Colombia?
Geronimo Paz Whether to be informed of an escalation of aggression, or to receive orders to assume the line of negotiation through which the US strategy against Venezuela appears to be turning in the face of the defeat of the “maximum pressure” model proposed by Chavismo. The US is obliged to do damage control after…
Colombia: Stories of Pain and Resistance
Zoe PC The sign read “Not one more killed”. Photo: Semana The Colombian tragedy continues without an end in sight. The last two weeks have seen a worrying surge in assassinations of social leaders, human rights defenders and ex-combatants. 19 such leaders have been assassinated since the turn of the decade. The demand by organizations…
Colombia: Six Social Leaders Assassinated in the Past Week
Peoples Dispatch Lucy Villareal, a 32-year-old mother, artist and activist was assassinated on December 23 in Tumaco, Nariño. Photo: Indoameranto The humanitarian tragedy in Colombia continues. In the past five days, too many families and communities have been shaken by the loss of loved ones who were targeted because of their commitment to fighting for…
