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…
Category: COLOMBIA
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…
Colombia’s Longest Insurgency and the Last Chance for Peace?
Mathew Charles It’s been called Colombia’s “other war,” and it is certainly proving the most persistent. On December 9, four trucks and two buses were detained at a makeshift roadblock on the road that connects the city of Medellín with the Caribbean coast. Men in camouflage began to set the vehicles alight as the drivers…
Colombia: It’s Not Polarization, It’s an Uprising
Pablo Nariño Today, the government of Colombia is being artificially supported, and while time passes on without a break, the elite, the traditional parties and their host of professional politicians, hastily whipped up their speeches and authorize the illegitimate violence of the State to confront the people; police, army, undercover structures, the media, pollsters, are…
Interview with Senator Juan Luis Castro Córdoba: “In Colombia People Lost Their Fear”
Juan Manuel Boccacci “The Duque government does not understand what is happening in Colombia.” Image Bernardino Avila Colombia continues to resist the neoliberal policies of President Ivan Duque in the streets. Tariffs, pension reform and labor flexibilization are just some of the adjustment policies that Colombians came out to reject throughout the country. November 21…
Dignity On the Streets of Colombia
Zoe PC Over 100,000 people participated in the mobilization on December 8 which was called for by artists and cultural workers. Photo: Colombia Informa Colombia is undergoing a historic moment of social transformation and struggle. Hundreds of thousands of people have joined the uprising against the criminal, neoliberal and repressive government of president Ivan Duque…
Peace, Neoliberalism and Political Shifts in Colombia
The Tricontinental National Indigenous March, May 2016, Department of Cauca. | Credit: Marcha Patriótica’s communication team. Peace in Colombia has been on Latin America’s political agenda for decades. The very opposite of peace has been foisted upon the country by the United States through Plan Colombia (2000) and through the installation of seven foreign military…
Massive Colombia Strike Hits Neoliberal Policies, Repression
Cathy Rojas On Nov 21, the Colombian people began a national strike against the neoliberal and repressive policies of rightwing President Ivan Duque. The national strike started in the large cities of Colombia including Bogota the capital, Cali, and Medellin, but now has spread throughout the country. It is the biggest national strike since 1977,…
Colombia’s Historic National Strike Continues
Peoples Dispatch Tens of thousands marched in Medellín, Colombia on November 21. Photo: Colombia Informa Colombia is the latest country to join the wave of people’s uprisings against neoliberalism and the politics of war, capital accumulation and exclusion. After months of preparation, hundreds of organizations and movements staged a national strike on November 21, Thursday,…
Nine Reasons Why Colombians are Holding a General Strike
Zoe PC Tens of thousands will participate in the strike across Colombia on November 21. Photo: Colombia Informa On November 21, Thursday. Colombia is set to go on strike – one of the largest in recent times. Trade unions, social movements, peasant, Afro-descendant, Indigenous, feminist, LGBTQI and community organizations, football fan barras, collectives of political…
Colombia’s US Ambassador Advocates ‘Covert Actions’ Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner Senior Colombian diplomats discussed strategies for regime change in Venezuela in a leaked audio published by Colombian news site Publimetro on Wednesday. Speaking in a Washington DC cafe, Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum and Ambassador to the US Francisco Santos repeatedly stressed the failure of US-led efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro….
