Colombia

Trump Attacks Colombia; President Gustavo Petro Fights Back

January 27, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Colombia, Donald Trump, Gustavo Petro, Immigration, Israel, Latin America, Marco Rubio, Sanctions, Tariffs

Donald Trump has kicked off his second administration with a very aggressive foreign policy. Trump is threatening trade restrictions and sanctions on countries around the world, including 100% tariffs on BRICS countries, which now represent 55% of the world population. The US president wants to colonize Greenland. He also vowed to take over the Panama Canal. Invoking “Manifest Destiny”, Trump is even attacking Canada and Mexico, the two largest trading partners of the United States. When Trump selected neoconservative hawk Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, it was a sign that he would be focusing his attention on Latin America

Indigenous Runners Complete Journey For Mother Earth And Solidarity

December 31, 2024 Natasha Pentin, Mongabay Environmental News. Create! Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, Journey, Mother Earth, Solidarity

Silvania, Colombia — On a warm but overcast afternoon, hundreds of Indigenous representatives and spiritual leaders gathered to witness a remarkable convergence of native nations from across the Americas. Serving as ambassadors and messengers, runners took off from Alaska and Patagonia, some covering up to 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) across treacherous landscapes in seven months. Along the journey, they collected sacred staffs imbued with prayers from almost 200 native nations. The runners, also known as chasquis, the name for messengers in the Inca empire, said they embarked on the journey to honor ancestral wisdom, restore balance with mother nature, strengthen the identity of Indigenous peoples, and promote global solidarity.

Petro Asks Biden To Pardon Colombian Political Prisoner Simón Trinidad

December 16, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Colombia, Gustavo Petro, Peace Process, Political Prisoner, Simón Trinidad

A few weeks ago, media reports revealed that the government of Gustavo Petro asked President Biden to pardon Simón Trinidad, a former Colombian guerrilla fighter who was sentenced to 60 years in prison in the United States after being captured in Ecuador in 2004 when he was on his way to meet with a United Nations delegate. According to the Colombian Executive, Trinidad’s release would contribute to building a reconciled Colombia after decades of civil war. It was even known that the Colombian ambassador in Washington, Daniel García, sent a note to the US government requesting the pardon.

Give The Gift Of Peace This Holiday! Free Simon Trinidad!

December 11, 2024 Staff, Fight Back News!. Resist! Colombia, Peace Process, political prisoners, Simón Trinidad

Known popularly as Simon Trinidad, he is a Colombian revolutionary and political prisoner of the U.S. held in the Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado. The U.S. government extradited, held four trials, and now imprisons Trinidad under his birth name of Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda (BPO No. 27896-016). Simon Trinidad was a leader and peace negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC-EP). Prior to that, he spent his life organizing people for progressive causes and social change, including with the Patriotic Union (UP) political party.

COP16 Ends Without Consensus On Financing For Nature Conservation

November 5, 2024 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Biodiversity, climate crisis, Climate finance, Colombia, Conservation, COP16

The COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, ended in disappointment this weekend, with countries failing to determine how to raise $200 billion a year in funding for conservation by 2030, reported Reuters. Originally intended as a check-in on countries’ progress with meeting the goals of the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), COP16 went into overtime Saturday as nations scrambled to reach a consensus while delegates dwindled along with hopes for a decisive conclusion. “I am both saddened and enraged by the non-outcome of COP16,” said Shilps Gautam, carbon removal financing firm Opna’s chief executive, as Reuters reported.

Latin American Governments Pay A Price For Challenging Israel’s Genocide

November 3, 2024 John Perry, CovertAction Magazine. Educate! Colombia, Coups, Genocide, Honduras, International Solidarity, Israel, Latin America, Nicaragua, Palestine

Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and several of those which have done so suddenly face new threats, even including attempted coups. Adrienne Pine, a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, said during a recent webinar hosted by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition that “anybody who stands with Palestine is going to be attacked in Latin America by the U.S. and by Zionists.” Recent events appear to show the truth of her remarks.

Mapped: How Big Industries Hope To Sway The UN Biodiversity Talks

October 30, 2024 Hazel Healy and Rachel Sherrington, DeSmog. Educate! Activism, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Biodiversity, Colombia, COP16, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Pesticides, Social Justice, United Nations (UN)

Under thundery tropical skies, and amid ever more dire warnings on the precarious state of the world’s ecosystems, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference is unfolding in Colombia. This year’s summit, known as COP16, follows on from the last biodiversity conference held in Montréal in 2022, when negotiators struck an historic deal – the equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate change – to “halt and reverse” nature loss. Now, government representatives from nearly 200 countries, along with scientists, Indigenous groups, and environmental activists, are gathered in the southern city of Cali to negotiate how to put this plan into action: protect earth’s habitats and the people who depend on them.

The Convention On Biodiversity COP In Cali, Colombia

October 26, 2024 Global Justice Ecology Project. Resist! Amazon Rainforest, Biodiversity, Brazil, Colombia, COP16, Genetically Engineered, Indigenous Peoples, Protests

More than 100 organizations from over 30 countries demand that Brazil cancel its NINE genetically engineered eucalyptus and stop threatening global forest biodiversity. Organizations and Indigenous Peoples from around the world call upon the world leaders at COP16 to demand a strict application of the CBD’s 2008 de facto moratorium on genetically engineered trees and that Brazil immediately cancel its legalization of 9 varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees for commercial release. Brazil’s legalization is a dangerous precedent that threatens to open the door to the widespread commercialization and large-scale release of GE trees across Latin America and around the world.

Applying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution To Latin America

October 17, 2024 Steve Ellner, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, BRICS, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Gramsci, Honduras, Latin America, Nicaragua, Passive Revolution, Pink Tide, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The second wave of progressive Latin American governments that began with the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico in 2018 does not have the aura of excitement surrounding the first, dating back to Hugo Chávez in 1998. It is not only characterized by pragmatism, but lacks the slogans and banners of radical change associated with Chávez and Evo Morales. As stated by former Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in the face of challenges from an aggressive right, the second-wave left “turned up to the fight in an already exhausted state.”

Global South Denounces Genocide; Nicaragua Ends Relations With Israel

October 13, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Benjamin Netanyahu, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Haaretz, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Sandinistas, South Africa, Venezuela

More and more countries in the Global South are cutting relations with Israel, accusing it of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. United Nations experts have stated that there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide … has been met”, adding that “the genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians”. Scientific experts have estimated that 186,000 Palestinians will die due to Israel’s war of extermination on Gaza, representing roughly 8% of the population of the densely populated strip.

President Petro Is Not Alone: Colombia Marches Against Coup Attempt

October 13, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Colombia, coup, Gustavo Petro, Lawfare, Mass Action, National Electoral Council (CNE)

Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro. With the slogan #MarchoContraElGolpe (“I march against the coup”), various political and social forces of the Colombian left gathered in Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá. The ruling coalition Historic Pact called for the demonstration that was held this Friday, October 11, to condemn the weaponized investigation launched by the Colombian National Electoral Council (CNE) on alleged irregularities in the limits of the financing of Petro’s presidential campaign.

Colombia’s President Petro Warns Of Attempts To Depose Him

October 10, 2024 Ultimas Noticias, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Colombia, Coups, Gustavo Petro, National Electoral Council (CNE), Right wing extremism

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has warned that a process is underway to depose him, stating that “the coup d’état has begun.” His comment was made this Tuesday, October 8, just minutes after the Colombian National Electoral Council (CNE)—an entity not constitutionally qualified to investigate the head of state—agreed to start an investigation and open a charge sheet against him, which extends to three members of his campaign, due to his alleged responsibility in violating the limits established for the 2022 presidential race. In addition to the president, the electoral body agreed to investigate his then-campaign manager, Ricardo Roa Barragán; the campaign treasurer, María Lucy Soto Caro; and the auditor, Juan Carlos Lemus Gómez, as well as the Colombia Humana and Unión Patriótica parties.

Colombians Mobilize In Support Of Pension Reform

September 21, 2024 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Resist! Colombia, coup, Gustavo Petro, mass mobilization, Pension reform

Thousands of Colombians took to the plazas of towns and cities across the country on September 19 to reject the attempts by the Colombian right-wing to overthrow the democratically elected government of Gustavo Petro and ratify their support to his government’s Pension Reform. The latest plot was denounced by the head of state last week on September 12, when Petro outlined that there was a plan underway to overthrow his government and replace him with Efrain Cepeda Sarabia, who is currently the president of the Congress of the Republic. The Conspiracy Denounced By Petro According to Petro, the plan would consist of accusing him of having violated the electoral law and proceeding to remove him from office so that Cepeda may occupy his position.

Humanitarian Caravan Advances In Colombia

August 2, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Colombia, Human Rights, Humanitarian Crisis, Land

The Caravan for Life, Peace and Permanence in the Territory is an act of solidarity with the people living in the regions most affected by violence in Colombia. It is made up of multiple national and international social organizations that, from July 23 to August 23, will travel through five regions of the South American country (Antioquia, Sur de Bolívar, Arauca, Chocó, Cauca and Valle del Cauca), in order to record denunciations associated with the violation of Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, as well as the alternatives that the population is building to live in dignity. Currently, caravan members are in the south of Bolivar, a region that for three years has been experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to the presence of paramilitarism.

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