Latin American media TeleSUR developed this map, presenting the US military bases in the region, the new bases in Colombia, a map of the social movements and of the natural resources (biodiversity, water resources and oil). click here (available in Spanish only)
International Review of Business Research Papers For half a century, the United States and its client state in Colombia have been unsuccessful in eliminating Latin America’s oldest and most powerful Marxist insurgency the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), via the Cold War, the ‘War on Drugs,’ and the ‘War on Terror’ after 9/11. This is an astonishing feat for a so-called ‘terrorist’ organisation in the twenty-first century. This paper will explore an area much eluded in Washington’s ‘Axis of Evil,’ the US ‘War on Narcoterrorism’ in Colombia with a particular focus on the cocaine drug trade and the FARC. Continue reading »
By Eva Golinger, from Postcards from the Revolution website
Dear comrades, We wish to extend greetings to your forum. We also send our solidarity in your efforts to have Liliany released immediately. Her work with The National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions, part of which was a tour of speaking engagements in Australia, was obviously too effective in explaining the human rights crisis in Colombia. Her imprisonment is a travesty of justice, without even a trial! Continue reading »
Today 8 August, it is exactly one year since the Colombian police detained our comrade and friend Liliany Obando and charged her with two counts of rebellion and managing funds for a terrorist organization. On this open letter, Liliany herself gives a brave account on how the Colombian government uses her case in an effort to silence the political opposition and proponents for social justice. Continue reading »
By Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas,National Model Jail/High Security Block, July 31st, 2009
Thursday 6th of August, 6:00pm @ Melbourne University Student Union, Members′ lounge (Ground Floor, enter via Tin Alley, Parkville). Entry by donation
With the participation of a Colombian Academic & member of Peace & Justice for Colombia Plus footage & video. Continue reading »
by Rick Rozoff, from Global Research
Note: as of August 5th, 2009, Uribe´s government refers to 7 miliary bases in Colombia, surpasing the 5 announced when this article was published (note by Peace & Justice for Colombia) On June 29 US President Barack Obama hosted his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe at the White House and weeks later it was announced that the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to five air and naval bases in Colombia, the largest recipient of American military assistance in Latin America and the third largest in the world, having received over $5 billion from the Pentagon since the launching of Plan Colombia nine years ago. Six months before the Obama-Uribe meeting outgoing US President George W. Bush bestowed the US’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, on Uribe as well as on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Continue reading » |
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The announcement of the US occupation of more than 7 military bases in Colombia comes at a time when a dictatorship – supported, if tacitly by Washington – in Honduras is consolidating after almost a month and a half has passed since the violent coup d’etat forced Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power. The increased US military presence in Latin America has been perceived by a majority of nations in this hemisphere as a threat to stability and peace in the region. How does the Obama administration justify increasing the Pentagon’s budget and investing almost $1 billion in its Latin American military operations this year? 
Miguel Ángel Beltrán, kidnapped in Mexico and held as a prisoner in the Model Jail in Bogotá [Colombia], writes from prison a letter to his comrades and teacher colleagues in which he presents the state in which he finds himself and the irregularities that gnaw at his trial. Below we present the letter in its entirety. 
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