Colombia

‘Colombia Resists:’ Thousands March For Peace As Duque Sworn In

August 21, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Colombia, March, Peace

On the day that newly elected President Ivan Duque was sworn in, activists and opposition politicians across Colombia demanded the implementation of the 2016 peace accords with the now demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the continuation of peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN). Thousands also protested the systematic murder of social and community leaders across the country. Since the peace accords were signed, over 400 social leaders have been killed for defending their territories.

USAID Chief’s Visit To Colombo‐Venezuelan Border Raises Spectre Of Interference

July 24, 2018 By Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Border, Colombia, Latin America, US Imperialism, USAID, Venezuela

Caracas, July 17, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, visited the Colombian frontier city of Cucuta Monday, pledging six million US dollars of support for organizations dealing with Venezuelans who cross the border. The move fits a pattern of US interference in the region that has often relied on this governmental agency. USAID’s mandate is to provide “foreign aid” and “development assistance,” but its activity has often evidenced directly political or even subversive motives related to reasserting US dominance in the region. From Cucuta, Trump’s USAID chief made declarations regarding what he calls a “man-made humanitarian crisis [in Venezuela],” which, he claims, adversely affects the whole region.

Colombians Determined Not To Be Conned By ConocoPhillips’ Fracking Spin

July 21, 2018 Sian Cowman, Towardfreedom.org Resist! Colombia, Fracking, Protests

ConocoPhillips didn’t become the 13th largest oil and gas company in the world with annual profits in the billions by carefully adhering to social and environmental regulations. According to their website, they are “the world’s largest independent exploration and production company based on production and proved reserves,” with operations in 17 countries and $73 billion of total assets. There are a series of externalized costs to their size and profits – aside from human-induced climate change. They don’t have a good safety record for their workers or the environment, with over $266 million in payouts through the courts due to environmental and safety infractions since 2000 – and those are just the ones that were reported and won in prosecution.

Stop The Systematic Effort To Destroy Colombia’s Left Through Murder

July 20, 2018 Staff, Afgj.org Resist! Colombia, Left Politics, Repression

Genocide is happening in Colombia. There is no other way to put it. In just one terrible day, July 16, 2018, six social movement leaders were killed. Since the June 17 election of Ivan Duque as Colombia’s president, social movement leaders have been killed at the rate of more than one a day. Duque is a disciple of former president and death squad patron Álvaro Uribe, whom he calls Colombia’s “eternal president”. Last weekend, two Fensuagro affiliates were murdered in the most brutal ways imaginable, beaten to death with rocks, one of them literally decapitated by repeated blunt force trauma. These men were from the sister towns of Miranda, Corinto, and Caloto, villages AfGJ has been visiting since our first trip to the area in 2009. We must not let their voices be lost, even though their lives have been taken!

Cynical Helmets

July 11, 2018 Carola Chavez, Resumen-english.org Educate! Colombia, Fake News, Propaganda

The White Helmets have arrived at Cúcuta. They came to save the Venezuelan “refugees” who live there. They arrived with their doctor’s gowns, with their marketing helmets, with Gabi Arellano, with Williams Dávila of the Venezuela National Assembly who work in opposition to the Bolivarian government along with Colombian politicians, with tents to set up their media circus, but something was missing. “The humanitarian medical assistance strategy that the White Helmet develops in Colombia aims to serve 200 patients daily, giving priority to women of childbearing age, pregnant women, infants and children under 17 years of age from Venezuela,” they wrote in their Twitter account. They claimed that they came to attend two hundred desperate Venezuelan patients a day on the border, but on the day of their debut, when all the media were there to sing the chorus at the fake concert...

How Gustavo Petro Has Given Life To Colombia’s Left

June 19, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Strategize! Colombia, Electoral Politics, Left Politics

8,034,189 million people voted for the former guerrilla member, Gustavo Petro - nearly double the number he gained during the nation’s first round at the polls less than a month ago. "What defeat? Eight million Colombians free and standing. There is no defeat here. For now, we will not be the government," tweeted Petro when the conservative media outlet, Caracol Radio called his election a loss. Far from being a loss, Petro’s performance at the polls is closer to a win. After decades of a fractured left, this is the farthest a leftist candidate has made it in a presidential race in contemporary history. The Progressivists Movement contender even beat his own electoral record from eight years ago. Running in the 2010 elections Petro gained just over 9 percent of the vote, ending his bid for the head of state.

Colombian Far-Right Candidate Duque Wins Presidential Elections

June 18, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! Colombia, Electoral Politics, Latin America

The turn out rate was about 53 percent, with a total of 19.411.268 Colombians going to the polling stations this Sunday out of the 32 million eligible voters. Petro acknowledged the defeat on Twitter responding to Caracol Radio, after the daily paper reported that he had recognized the results. "Which defeat. Eight million Colombian men and women standing freely. No defeat here. We will not be part of the government for now." He added in a press conference: "We are not defeated. How many governors, mayors, and mayors will come in the future? We have to work on that task. We will return to the Senate of the Republic, not to do what was done in the past; but to go from there to the country, to go through the streets and the squares of Colombia."

Fallout From Colombia’s New Association With NATO

June 9, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Counterpunch.org Educate! Colombia, NATO

It was no surprise. Already Colombia had sent personnel to military training schools in Germany and Rome and troops to the Horn of Africa to fight Somali pirates, all under the auspices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Already, in 2013, Colombia and NATO had agreed to cooperate in intelligence-sharing, military-training exercises, and so-called humanitarian interventions. And in May 2017 Colombia and NATO agreed that the former would become a NATO “global partner.” On May 25, 2018 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made an announcement to that effect. He mentioned too that Colombia was joining the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OCDE), “an international club of creditors of deeply indebted poor countries,” according to one observer.

Colombia: Ivan Duque And Gustavo Petro To Second Round

May 29, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! Colombia, Electoral Politics, Latin America

Ivan Duque and Gustavo Petro will compete in a June 17 run-off election to decide the country's next head of state. The Colombian presidential election results confirm the second round, and that a run-off election between Gustavo Petro and Ivan Duque will be necessary to decide the country’s newest leader. The final election is set for June 17. With just under 100 percent of the ballots counted, former President Alvaro Uribe's protegee, right-wing Ivan Duque - projected to gain over 45 percent of today's presidential vote - ended with 39.14 percent. Center-left ex-mayor of Bogota Gustavo Petro won 25.09 percent of the popular vote. This movest these two candidates on to the run-off election set to take place June 17 in order to decide the final presidential winner.

Abby Martin vs. Colombian Congressman On Peace And Paramilitaries

May 28, 2018 AbMartin, Empire Files, TelesurTV. Resistance Report Colombia, Elections, Peace

Colombia’s presidential election could determine the fate of the historic peace deal ending their 53-year civil war. While most in the country want to honor the agreement, Colombia’s right wing has been a fervent opponent. In Bogotá, Abby Martin interviews Congressman Edward Rodriguez, a leading member of the far-right Democratic Center Party founded by former President Uribe. She challenges him on his party’s ties to death squads, drug cartels and potential to reignite the war. Martin also visits the government office dedicated to compensating the civilian victims...

Colombia’s New NATO Partnership ‘A Threat To Peace’

May 28, 2018 Staff, MorningStar. Educate! Colombia, NATO, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Friday that Colombia would be working with the West’s military alliance as a “global partner” from this week, becoming the first Latin American country to do so. In a statement, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said: “Venezuela denounces once more before the international community the intention of Colombian authorities to introduce, in Latin America and the Caribbean, a foreign military alliance with nuclear capacity, which in every way constitutes a serious threat for peace and regional stability.”

Black Activists Targeted By The Colombian State

April 27, 2018 Zoe PC, Blackagendareport.com Resist! Activists, Afro-Colombians, Colombia, Repression

On April 20, Colombian human rights organizations in the south-west of the country denounced the mass arrests of leaders and human rights defenders in the departments of Nariño, Cauca and Valle del Cauca. The organizations pointed out that people who were detained had attended sessions of the National Liberation Army (ELN) peace talks held in Quito, Ecuador, and they would probably be charged with rebellion and be accused of having links to the guerrilla group. Human rights organizations have not been able to identify all of the 30 people who were detained in the operations due to the irregular circumstances under which the legal proceedings took place. Many of those detained belong to the Afro-Colombian organization Proceso de Comunidades Negras (Black Communities’ Process - PCN)...

Urgent Action To Protect Human Rights Defenders In Colombia

April 25, 2018 Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! Afro-Colombians, Colombia, Human Rights, Violence

Human-rights and social-justice organizations in Colombia as well as the international community demand all charges be dropped and the state immediately release Afro-Colombian activists imprisoned on frivolous "terrorism" charges. The ability to move swiftly to defend these two activists, Sara Quiñonez and Tulia Maris Valencia, will impact the Pan-African struggle worldwide.

People Of Colombia & Venezuela Unite On Border Opposing Hostilities

March 12, 2018 By Katrina Kozarek, Venezuelanalysis.com Resist! Border, Colombia, Immigration, Solidarity, Venezuela

Barquisimeto, March 8 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) On the first and second of March, social movements and human rights organizations from Colombia and Venezuela came together in the border cities of San José of Cucutá, Colombia and San Antonio, in the state of Táchira in Venezuela in an event of mutual solidarity for peace and self determination. This event was organized as both countries face growing economic, social and political tensions that have manifested especially the border areas of these two countries in the form of mafias of contraband, presence of paramilitaries, social violence and xenophobia against Venezuelan immigrants, assassinations of Colombian political activists, and increased military presence on both sides of the border.

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