Peace and Justice for Colombia

In an electoral campaign that has up to now been dominated by advertising of candidates that have strong connections to paramilitaries and the drug trade, the campaign headquarters of the main opposition figure in Colombia has been raided by armed men. On the 5th of February the campaign office of Piedad Cordoba and Andrés Villamizar in Bogota was raided by armed men, the attackers ordered all the office staff into the bathrooms and stole all the telephones, lists of supporters and volunteers. In a country were supporters of opposition candidates are systematically executed or thrown in jail elections are really just a costly exercise in international publicity.

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