Colombia

Colombian Farmers Continue Push Against Mining, For Peace

March 11, 2020 Sandra Cuffie, Towardfreedom.org Resist! Colombia, Farming, Mining

“What we have has cost us a lot of sweat,” said Ariel Velásquez, as an iridescent green hummingbird flitted between the flowers outside his home in search of nectar. “We don’t want mining in our territory.” A 36-year-old farmer, Velásquez lives at the very edge of Vereda La Soledad, a coffee and plantain farming community in the municipality of Jericó, in southwestern Antioquia, Colombia.

Colombia Is Second Most Dangerous Country For Human Rights Defenders

March 6, 2020 Staff, www.resumen-english.org Educate! Colombia, Human Rights

This Monday, the Business & Human Rights Resource Center presented a report denouncing the relationship between corporations and damages to human rights defenders. According to the report, Colombia is the second most dangerous country in the world (after Honduras) for attacks against human rights defenders who are working on business issues, accounting for 9% of all cases worldwide.

Colombian National Strike Committee Issues Call To Renew Anti-Government Protests

February 15, 2020 Staff, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Colombia, Electoral Politics, Uprising

A popular uprising against the far-right Ivan Duque government began last year opposing the rise in assassinations of social leaders and the neoliberal economic measures. The Colombian National Strike Committee (CNP) has called for a series of fresh protests over the next couple of months after the far-right government of Ivan Duque failed to reach any sort of agreement with them.

US Soldiers And Contractors Rape 54 Girls In Colombia And Sell The Videos That Show Their Crimes

February 5, 2020 Staff, Cubadebate, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Colombia, Rape, Sexism, US military

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 FARC guerrillas in the framework during the peace negotiations.

The People Of Colombia Are Cracking Up The Walls Of War And Authoritarianism

January 22, 2020 Justin Podur, Globetrotter a project of the Independent Media Institute Resist! Authoritanism, Colombia, Latin America

The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia's central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken promises of the peace accords have persisted for two months and grown into a protest against the whole establishment. And the protests have continued into the new year and show no signs of stopping. The end of the decade has seemed to bring an unstoppable march of the right wing in Latin America as elsewhere. The 2016 coup in Brazil that ended with fascist Jair Bolsonaro in power, the 2019 coup in Bolivia, the continuously rolling coup in Venezuela...

Colombians Launch National Cacerolazo Against Tax Reform

December 22, 2019 Telesur English. Resist! Colombia, General Strike, Taxes, Workers

Thousands participated in a pot-banging protest in Bogota on Monday afternoon [December 16, 2019] in the Plaza de Bolivar, in order to demand the burying of a tax reform bill in the Congress of the Republic, as it lowers duties on businesses. Colombia's National Strike Committee, comprised of major unions and student organizations, called this Monday for a national 'cacerolazo' (pot-banging protest) in rejection of the tax reform that the government insists on defending, despite the fact that many consider it harmful to millions of citizens. The Colombian Federation of Education Workers (FECODE) pointed out that the aforementioned bill had a detrimental impact on national revenue, mainly because of the reduction of income tax from 32 to 30 percent for legal entities.

Dignity On The Streets Of Colombia

December 17, 2019 By Zoe PC, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Class Struggle, Colombia, Latin America, Uprising

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 including famous musicians, beauty queens and athletes. In the universities, plazas, and streets of towns, municipalities and cities across Colombia, people from diverse sectors of society are bringing their pots and pans, placards, home-made shields, musical instruments, etc. to raise their voices against Duque’s government and in support of key demands to improve the lives of the Colombian people.

2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt of the Dispossessed

December 15, 2019 Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.

Colombia: TIAR Ministers To Plan New Actions Against Venezuela

December 9, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Colombia, Venezuela

While the U.S. allies held their meeting in Bogota, Bolivarian workers and students mobilized in Caracas to defend their country. The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) Tuesday held a ministerial consultation meeting in Bogota, Colombia, to evaluate the application of new measures against Venezuela. Colombia's Foreign Minister Claudia Blum explained that TIAR ministers will take decisions about non-military measures and sanctions against the Bolivarian revolution, as local media reported.

Colombia On Strike: “This Government Has To Fall”

December 2, 2019 José Antonio Gutiérrez D., Roarmag.org Resist! Class Struggle, Colombia, Latin America, Strikes

Aspecter is haunting Latin America — the specter of class struggle. From Haiti, Ecuador and Peru to Chile — until one month ago an oasis of neoliberal governance — people are taking to the streets in protest. Their anger is directed not only against their governments, but even more so against a system that causes unspeakable hardship for most while creating obscene profits for a few. People have had it with the rampant inequality and with barely being able to survive in countries that, according to all economic indicators, are seemingly doing fine.

Venezuela Military On High Alert For Colombian Military Attack

December 1, 2019 Telesur Educate! Colombia, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced that the Bolivarian Army is on "alert" for a suspected attack from Colombia. "All of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) should be on alert. I have first-hand information of a set of provocations for armed conflict at the Colombian-Venezuelan border, so as to divert attention from the popular Colombian rebellion against Ivan Duque," Maduro said. "I speak out against it and I'm telling the FANB to be ready to defend Venezuela's sovereignty and right to peace... Be ready."

Colombia Enters The Maelstrom Of Latin American Revolution

November 24, 2019 By María J. Espinosa, Marxist.com. Resist! Colombia, National Strike, Neoliberalism, US Imperialism

Colombia - On 21 November, a powerful general strike paralysed Colombia. Originally called to reject a package of measures by the right-wing government of Ivan Duque, including a counter reform of the labour laws, a counter reform of pensions and massive cuts in education, it became the focal point for accumulated anger. The strike was the largest the country has seen since 1977 and there were mass demonstrations in every town and city. The government responded with repression and threats. This only served to escalate the situation. In response, there was a spontaneous call for the continuation of the strike on Friday, 22 November when protests continued. The government has now militarised Bogota and declared a curfew across the capital and other cities.

In Response To Nationwide Strike President Duque Call Out Troops In Colombia

November 22, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Colombia, Protests, Strikes

As a response to the nationwide strike that thousands of Colombians are carrying out on Thursday, President Ivan Duque increased the number of troops patrolling in urban areas, which generated concern at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). "The Office notes with concern the issuance of several decrees and instructives which could allow mayors and governors to declare curfews and request military support for public order control," the UNCHR representative in Colombia Alberto Brunori said.

187 Ex-FARC Members Killed Since Signing Of Peace Deal: Gov’t

November 22, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Colombia, FARC, Repression

187 former FARC guerilla members have been assassinated over the past three years since the signing of a peace deal in 2016 between the left-wing militants and the Colombian government, according to a report by the country’s Attorney General's Office. The official investigation revealed that ex-FARC members are being increasingly targeted as 75 killings were reported in 2018, and 35 in 2017.Among the victims, 183 were men, three were women and one was a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, the report detailed.

Colombia’s Local Elections Mark Milestone In Major Cities

November 1, 2019 Francesco Manetto, El Pais, Translated by Resumen-english.org Create! Colombia, Electoral Politics, Latin America

Local elections held last Sunday in Colombia marked a milestone in the country’s two major cities, Bogota and Medellin. Claudia Lopez, candidate for the Green Alliance, became the first woman ever elected Mayor of the South American capital. A woman who last decade revealed the connivance among politicians, drug trafficking and paramilitarism, she is a public figure with a leading role in fighting corruption in recent years. She defeated Carlos Fernandez Galan, son of a presidential candidate murdered in 1989, and is a former senator of popular origins...

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