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Great Idea, UN, Get a Criminal to Investigate a Crime: UN Defend’s Appt. of Alvaro Uribe to Gaza Flotilla Investigation

August 9, 2010

UN Defends Uribe’s Appointment to Flotilla Panel United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon defended the appointment of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as vice chairman of the U.N. inquiry into an Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, following requests from over 150 human rights organizations that it be reconsidered, reports EFE. Organizations from […]

US Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region by Benjamin Dangl

March 24, 2010

U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region Mar 23rd 2010 , by Benjamin Dangl, The Progressive On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, […]

COLOMBIA: FARC Speaks! “We will never give up the struggle for justice”

July 20, 2008

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Party for Socialism and Liberation http://www.pslweb.org/ News and Analysis Latin American media broadcasts FARC statement Friday, July 18, 2008 By: Alfonso Cano ‘We will never give up the struggle for justice’ Recent events in Columbia have been widely discussed in the U.S. media, but what has been missing is the voice of the Revolutionary Armed […]

Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Dress Them as Rebels, Collect their Bounty

April 1, 2008

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The US is putting on a full-court press to get Congress to pass a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and is stressing Colombia’s improved human rights record as a good reason to do so. Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Pass Off Bodies as Rebels’ By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 30, 2008; A12 […]