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Post by blindpig » Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:26 pm

Colombia’s Anti-Riot Police Attack Health Workers in Medellin

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Citizens march peacefully, Medellin, Colombia, June 16, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @rcnmundo

Published 17 June 2021

Although the National Strike Committee did not call for new mass events, young Colombians continued to take to the streets to protest against President Duque.

On Wednesday, Colombians denounced that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) attacked a photograph and members of the Prehospital Care for Medellin (APH) with stun bombs and tear gas.

Expressing that they do not feel represented by the National Strike Committee, the citizens of the department of Antioquia took to the streets again to continue the protests against President Ivan Duque.

In Medellin, members of the security forces repressed citizens who were trying to start a march from the Alpujarra Administrative Center. At night, the park of lights, the main square, and some large avenues were staged for protests called by the group "youth resistance."

Attorney William Vivas denounced that ESMAD officers intimidated public officials who tried to verify the quality of the tear gas used to repress citizens.


The meme reads, "Disturbances at the intersection between Calle 80 and San Juan at the end of the youth mobilizations in Medellin, Antioquia."

In Bogota, ESMAD and the National Police evicted the protesters at the so-called "Resistance Station." In Bucaramanga City, security forces repressed people protesting in residential neighborhoods.

So far, according to the report "the figures of violence" prepared by the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (INDEPAZ), 46 out of 70 murders recorded since April 28 are directly related to the actions of the ESMAD and other state security forces.

During the national strike, over 1,445 citizens were arbitrarily detained, 73 Colombians had serious eye injuries as a result of projectiles launched by the policy, 39 Colombians suffered forced disappearances, 1,133 citizens were physically beaten by police, and 25 people were sexually assaulted.

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A civilian (Andrés Escobar) shoots together with the Colombian police against protesters in Cali in the framework of the National Strike (Photo: Archive)
THE TERRIBLE
Carola Chavez

16 Jun 2021 , 7:34 pm .

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A civilian (Andrés Escobar) shoots together with the Colombian police against protesters in Cali in the framework of the National Strike (Photo: Archive)

Colombia burns - when not! - in the midst of a national strike that does not stop. Urban protests that receive the syrup of violence that for decades has swallowed the countryside. The cities discover the horror of the eternal war that Colombia has experienced, the other Colombia, because the urban one was something else. It was so different, they were so turned away from the horror of war, that when the cities had to vote in favor of peace, they voted against it.

Telephones and security cameras record the death live. Swarms of policemen roam the streets shooting like crazy, just like that, to kill whoever they cross, and whoever is not crossed as well. And if the shot does not kill, the kicks kill and if it is not with kicks, it will be with shovels. And if they do not kill, mutilate, torture and rape, which is another way to kill, but over low heat.

There are more than eight hundred disappeared in the protests and that alone is not a scandal when it happens in Colombia. Nor is it scandalous that they begin to appear floating in the rivers, betrayed by the hungry zamuros, always hovering over death.

KILLING IS THE PRIVILEGE OF THE OLIGARCHIES AND THEIR FAVORITE METHOD OF MAINTAINING POWER

And to the feast of blood and death are added, of course, the paramilitaries who jump into the streets with their pistols to shoot in chorus with the police, without dissimulation, in full view of all, because that is how terror operates to be more terrifying, so that Colombians know that they are surrounded, that they remain still, that they do not screw around, that it can be even worse, that Cali can still look like Buenaventura, that they do not tempt their luck ...

Killing is the privilege of the oligarchies and their favorite method of maintaining power. They support each other and cover up with a pathological cynicism and just as their banks launder money, their media launder records, turning bloodthirsty murderers into freedom fighters - Hello, Leopoldo! - and their victims into victimizers.

Thus, the violence in Colombia is nothing terrible, it is not even happening. Terrible, yes, it is that the stock market collapses in Peru because a teacher with a hat and a horse sneaked into the elections out of nowhere and won the presidency that they already want to take away from him. It is terrible that the peoples come to rule. Right, Vargas Llosa?

We will win!

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:20 pm

Colombia reaches two months of protests and social mobilizations

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Since April 28, Colombians have been protesting against President Iván Duque. | Photo: EFE

Published June 28, 2021 (3 hours 17 minutes ago)

According to human rights organizations, the repression by Esmad has left 70 dead and at least 80 injured.

After two months of protests and mobilizations in the context of the national strike in Colombia, thousands of citizens are expected to mobilize in the main cities of the country.

The protesters will demand justice this Monday for the more than 70 murdered, hundreds of disappeared, thousands of wounded and dozens of eye injuries at the hands of the police and the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad).

According to the balance of Human Rights organizations, the repression by Esmad and civilians supported by the police has left a balance of more than 80 injured.


Despite these figures provided by groups such as NGO Tremors, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), the representatives of the National Unemployment Committee assure that they have obtained important results.

Achievements of the National Strike in Colombia

Among the achievements, they stand out that the mobilizations and protests managed to position the need to advance in a structural reform in the National Police.

They also managed to get the majority of Colombians to be against the doctrines promoted by former President Álvaro Uribe.

Finally, it made it possible to expose the massive and systematic violation of human rights by the Public Force and the demand to dismantle the Esmad.

In the midst of the dialogues with the Government, the National Unemployment Committee asked to sign a preliminary agreement to guarantee the right to protest.

However, the Colombian government ignored the preliminary agreement on minimum guarantees for peaceful social protest.

The representatives of the National Unemployment Committee announced a new plan that establishes the drafting of bills on matters contained in the emergency specifications, which will be delivered to Congress on July 20.

For that day, the group made up of unions, unions, student organizations and others, called for a mobilization under the slogan "For life, peace, democracy and against the neoliberal policies of the Duque government."

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Massacres in Colombia have left more than 170 dead in 2021

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Compared to last year, Colombia shows an increase in the number of massacres. | Photo: EFE

Published June 28, 2021 (6 hours 13 minutes ago)

According to Indepaz, the Colombian department with the highest number of massacres so far in 2021 is Antioquia with nine.

At least 172 people have died in Colombia as a result of the 45 massacres registered in the South American country during 2021.

According to the balance of the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) so far this year, Colombia exceeds by 12 massacres those registered in the first six months of 2020, where 33 crimes of this type were recorded.


According to data from the Human Rights organization, the department with the highest number of massacres so far in 2021 is Antioquia with nine, followed by Cauca with eight multiple murders, in third place is Valle del Cauca with seven massacres.

In relation to the number of deaths, the two departments that lead the list are Valle del Cauca and Antioquia with 32 deaths, followed by Cauca with 28 records.

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Post by blindpig » Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:33 pm

CIA Preparing a False Flag Operation from Colombia?
JULY 2, 2021

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Colombian President Iván Duque and Craig Faller, head of the Southern Command (Photo: Presidency of Colombia).

Colombia’s role in the already permanent regime change operation against Venezuela is broad and eloquent. Some recent events in that country may be worthy of attention and analysis, however, all this would require a series of further questions to help clarify what is behind these events and where they are headed.

Perhaps the most curious event is the visit of the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, William J. Burns, to that country to participate in a “sensitive” security mission, as part of the cooperation between both countries. The visit follows a telephone conversation between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Colombian counterpart Iván Duque.

Colombia’s ambassador in Washington, Francisco Santos, declined to give further details about Burns’ visit to Bogota. When questioned about the mission, Santos said:

I prefer not to tell you, it is a delicate mission, an important intelligence mission that we managed to coordinate.

He added that the visit of the US official to Colombia was made by a contact, after having had three meetings with the agency and that in those meetings they have told them where they are going and what is happening, so they consider his visit as “very important”.

Smoke around a car bomb?

Another disturbing event is the alleged attack on a base used by the 30th Brigade of the Colombian Army in Cúcuta, 10 km from the Venezuelan border. Without evidence, the Colombian Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, blamed the event on the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) saying: “We reject and repudiate this vile and terrorist act that was intended to attack the soldiers of Colombia”, adding that “Thirty-six people were wounded. Three of them seriously”.

According to official versions, two men drove a white Toyota van to the base after posing as officers and subsequently there were two explosions that, in addition to causing injuries, affected the infrastructure of the military base. Videos on social networks showed what appeared to be U.S. military personnel at the base after the attack.

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“Advisors” of the SFAB mission or 1st Security Force and Assistance Brigade attached to the U.S. Army Southern Command remained at the military base at the time of the alleged car bomb attack in Cúcuta (Photo: Cadenanoticias).

According to opinions of ex-officials and journalists there are elements of the version that do not match, some even affirmed that the Army was carrying military explosives of the pendrite type (which does not need a detonator) that were activated.

They also wonder why the irregular groups did not act on other occasions but in the midst of a two-month long day of protests and national strike in which the Duque government has unleashed a repressive wave. The result has been 327 missing persons and 83 homicides, 44 of these with presumed responsibility of the security forces.

Others, such as journalist Gonzalo Guillén, have expressed surprise about details, such as the fact that the car-bomb did not leave any mark on the post next to or on the car behind and that the tires were left intact.
Miracle! The car bomb in Cúcuta did not leave any marks on the pole next to it or on the car behind it.

Bless God! pic.twitter.com/FzGnnF2ya1
– Gonzalo Guillén (@HELIODOPTERO) June 16, 2021

Hence the suspicion has spread that it was a smokescreen to distract from some controversial decisions such as the sinking of the “Zero Tuition” project that would give free education to 140 thousand young Colombians annually, the traditional parties also sank the law that would ban fracking; the basic income project for those most affected by the pandemic and at the same time increased the budget to the Procuraduría, a control entity criticized for the lack of transparency in its contract policy and for political persecution.

According to the blog La Tabla, the ELN assured in a brief communiqué that they had nothing to do with the attack, and furthermore, after the attack, the 11 agents of the SFAB Mission (1st Assistance Brigade and Security Force attached to the Southern Command) of the US Army who remained at the military base were unharmed.

This is a military command that has been advising on-site in the fight against drug trafficking since June 2020. It is comprised of specialists in operations analysis, tactical form and strategy against “destabilizing threats or factors” and comes from the Military Advisors Training Academy at Fort Benning, Georgia. Such a presence has been rejected by the Venezuelan government and different social movements in the continent.

Duque offered a reward of 500 million pesos (133 thousand dollars) for those who provide information on the perpetrators of the “attack” and announced military assistance for the patrolling of Cúcuta, traveled to that city the following night, made a statement on the possible perpetrators of the action and gave an account of the road map to catch those responsible.

The Colombian head of state also announced the creation of a special criminal group, supported by specialized personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, to carry out the investigations. He also announced the creation of a “wall plan” on the border to prevent the possible perpetrators of the attack from fleeing to Venezuela to hide.

Ten days later, attack on the presidential helicopter

Much more disturbing has been the alleged attack on President Iván Duque himself. Last Friday, June 25, the Black Hawk helicopter in which he was traveling was attacked when the president was fulfilling a commitment in the municipality of Sardinata, border zone of Catatumbo in the department of Norte de Santander.

Official sources informed that he was traveling with the ministers of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, of Defense, Diego Molano, and the governor of Norte de Santander, Silvano Serrano, who were attending an event called “Peace with Legality, Sustainable Catatumbo chapter”.

According to reports, the helicopter in question was reportedly hit by six bullets and all crew members completed the trip safely. Minutes after the incident, through a video posted on social networks, the Colombian president described the incident as a “cowardly attack”, stated that he instructed the entire security team to go after those who shot at the aircraft and said that “both the aerial device and the capacity of the aircraft prevented a lethal event from occurring”.

Duque added that “They do not intimidate us with acts of violence or terrorism”, while the Colombian Presidency published a video of the attacked aircraft.
The helicopter in which Colombian President Iván Duque was traveling was attacked this Friday with several shots while landing at the Cúcuta airport, the government denounced. pic.twitter.com/E5sp44rhsK
– RT en Español (@ActualidadRT) June 26, 2021

A few hours after the events, the Colombian authorities published the sketch of two alleged perpetrators of the aggression prepared by the Attorney General’s Office and different police agencies.

The Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, affirmed that both persons fired AK-47 and FAL 7.62 rifles which were found near the area where the attack took place and reported the following day, considered that this was not an isolated attack and that “it is not disjointed from what has been happening throughout the last two months”, since “the attacks to governors’ and mayors’ offices reach their peak with this attack to the president”.

Molano said that “information has been received of a possible criminal drug trafficking alliance between the urban front of the ELN and the dissidences of FARC residual armed group 33”. Local media announced the realization of 102 genetic, ballistic and dactyloscopic criminal studies, 45 judicial interviews and the analysis of 22 cameras with 160 hours of recording by the authorities.

The director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, assured from Cúcuta the finding of the aforementioned weapons and affirmed that “of the 20 percussion pods found in the place of the facts, 14 belong to the FAL rifle preliminarily and 6 of them to the AK-47 rifle, according to the preliminary experts of the Police and the Attorney General’s Office”. He added that one of the weapons found has marks of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (sic) and that the shots were fired from a sector adjacent to the air terminal, a neighborhood bearing the same name of the airport: Camilo Daza.

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Two rifles found in the vicinity of Camilo Daza airport in Cúcuta, one of them with alleged markings of the “Armed Forces of Venezuela” (sic) (Photo: Archive).

Some analysts have expressed doubts regarding some criminal data provided by the authorities, such as the use of a FAL rifle by guerrilla groups, this type of weaponry was disincorporated by President Hugo Chávez in 2005 and it is well known the guerrillas’ preference for lighter weaponry, including the AK-47.

Others have satirized the fact that none of the shots shown hit the lower part of the fuselage of the aircraft but the upper part.

More analysts have explained the need of the pro-Uribe government to unleash more aggression and instability against Venezuela by making the public believe that Venezuela has attacked them, typical of a false flag operation.

Pointing to Venezuela as a distraction?

Although so far the Casa de Nariño has not accused the Venezuelan government of both incidents, the reflex action of the Duque administration is already known, which always involves pointing the finger at Caracas, without proof, in every negative event that occurs. The seriousness of the alleged recent events has not prevented the president from continuing to participate in public events, and the logical withdrawal and protection required by events of such nature has not been implemented.

The one who did target his own country, without evidence, was the former deputy Juan Guaidó, who wrote in his Twitter account that “the rise of attacks in our brother country is related to access to resources and protection of the narco-guerrillas from the dictatorship in Venezuela”.

There are many questions regarding the motivation of such statement, the most obvious one is whether the spokesman of the pro-US anti-Chavism seeks notoriety after both Biden and Duque have continuously ignored him in the last months. To the point that he was not mentioned in any of the two communiqués derived from the call between the two presidents.

As it was known, last Monday, June 28, Biden offered Duque “his support to face terrorist actions” and, as communicated by the Colombian presidency, “…expressed his concern for the situation in Venezuela and its regional impact, and stressed the importance of seeking an international consensus for free and fair elections”. He also “recognized Colombia’s effort in offering Temporary Protection Status for Venezuelan migrants who have had to leave due to the situation in their country.”

Although Guaidó has reached the end, both in Washington and in Bogota there seems to be a temptation to involve Venezuela, and something is yet to happen. For his part, the former president and operator of the global right, Andres Pastrana, said he is clear that the reasons for the strike in Colombia are not in his country but in the interference of “castrochavismo”.

The conservative politician has stated that there is interference of President Nicolás Maduro in the violence of the protests in Colombia due to the fact that he said in 2019 that “the Bolivarian breeze would arrive in Colombia” and that same year protests took place. He stated at the beginning of last June:

This is a criminal scaffolding that seeks to set Colombia on fire. The enemy of Colombia is not the trade unionists or the students, the enemy of Colombia is Venezuela and its name is Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, all that narco-dictatorship that is in Venezuela.

He has provided as evidence that the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, said that if Colombia messed with Venezuela, they would make war on their territory. He added that Bolivarianism “wants to take Colombia because it is the Jewel in the Crown”.

The Colombian vice-president and foreign minister, backing statements without evidence from the then outgoing president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, tweeted:
We always said that Maduro’s narco-dictatorship has not only generated the greatest humanitarian tragedy for the Venezuelan people, but also intends to export its model to Colombia through its allies and cronies of always. They will not succeed. Colombia is great!!! pic.twitter.com/T183O7r1Mh
– Marta Lucía Ramírez (@mluciaramirez) May 6, 2021

In September 2019, Duque himself delivered a report to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, with photos and information about the alleged presence of several ELN members in Venezuela and also the alleged protection and support of the Bolivarian Government to these guerrillas.

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Duque presented at the UN a report accusing Venezuela of being tolerant with irregular groups in his country with up to four errors (Photo: HispanTV).

Subsequently, the local newspaper El Colombiano published a report demonstrating how one of the photos presented by the Colombian president as a part of the “ELN penetration in rural schools in the state of Táchira (in Venezuela) (…) in April 2018”, did not correspond neither to that place nor to the date shown. The aforementioned photo was taken three years earlier, in 2015, in the department of Cauca, southwestern Colombia.

Colombia as an imperial outpost and Venezuela on permanent alert

On the afternoon of July 1, President Maduro warned about the visit of the CIA chief and the actions of the Southern Command stating that “There, in Colombia, the commander of the Southern Command, Craig Faller, was there, and I am told that the director of the CIA in Colombia was there recently, they are working on some secret plan to harm Venezuela”. He assured that some reports reveal it and highlighted that no information about the agenda or the points discussed between the CIA and the Duque administration was published.

The U.S. Southern Command has seven of the more than 70 military bases that the U.S. has in Latin America, is deployed in Colombian territory and is active in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, as demonstrated by information about what happened with the car bomb.

The presence of the U.S. military so close to Venezuela is justified by Colombia and the United States under the pretext of the fight against drug trafficking, however there is no official source that includes their presence in any military base in the department of Norte de Santander.

Since 2009, a Washington-Bogotá agreement was signed by then President Álvaro Uribe and Venezuela denounced it as part of an imperial strategy to retake the hegemony lost in Latin America after the so-called “progressive cycle”. This was the decade in which several leftist and nationalist governments came to power through the ballot box. The aforementioned agreement between Bogota and Washington stipulates that the troops will be stationed in facilities located in departments far from Venezuela.

Uribe’s policy of “democratic security” has been linked to such shady dealings as false positives and false flag operations since its inception. In 2006 a colonel, a major, a captain and a lieutenant of the Colombian Army were accused and tried for committing terrorist attacks in Bogotá with car bombs and a house bomb to be judged as false positives. These events were prior to the second presidential inauguration of Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

The most recent false flag attempt was an attempt to bring in a convoy of trucks with supposed “humanitarian aid” on February 23, 2019, from the same department of Norte de Santander. Seeking to undermine the authority of the constitutional government of President Maduro the cartelized media imposed the narrative of a catastrophe scenario on the border and in the rest of Venezuela.

For its part, the United States has a long history of false flag attacks from the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861) through the blowing up of the battleship USS Maine (Cuba, 1898), Operation Gladio (Italy, 1945-1992), the Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnam, 1964) to the staging of the Seizure of Tripoli’s Green Square (Libya, 2011).

The next steps of Colombia under the auspices of the United States will depend on the stability of the region and the progress of Venezuela in its quest for both national independence and Latin American integration.

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Post by blindpig » Wed Jul 07, 2021 2:37 pm

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Colombian soldiers face justice for false positives (Photo: File)

COLOMBIAN PEACE TRIBUNAL INDICTS 10 SOLDIERS FOR 120 MURDERS
6 Jul 2021 , 7:34 pm .

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) of Colombia indicted 10 soldiers and one civilian for war crimes and crimes against humanity due to their participation in the murder of 120 people.


The court, which arose from the Peace Accords with the FARC, identified the eleven men, including a general, for the execution of 120 people and the forced disappearance of another 24, between 2007 and 2008, which were presented by the forces. Colombian military as casualties in combat (false positives ”).

The Catatumbo region, Norte de Santander, was the scene in which the accused soldiers acted.

"The JEP imputes war crimes and crimes against humanity to a general, six officers and three non-commissioned officers and a third civilian for false positives," Magistrate Catalina Díaz Gómez said during a press conference.

The magistrate explained that it was possible to identify two modalities in the crimes committed, following the profile of the victims: the first corresponds to the murder of young men between 25 and 35 years old, inhabitants of the rural area of ​​Catatumbo, mostly farmers, merchants and informal transporters; while the second consists of the murder of young people, coming from other regions, tricked into being transferred to Catatumbo.

General Paulino Coronado Gámez, commander of Brigade 30, and two colonels, Santiago Herrera Fajardo and Rubén Darío Castro Gómez, commanders of Mobile Brigade No. 15, are among the accused. They participated by giving the orders for the executions to be committed and presented as combat casualties.

Once the defendants receive the notification from the JEP, they will have 30 business days to acknowledge or deny their responsibility in the facts. If they are denied and defeated in court, they may be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.

FALSE POSITIVES AS INSTITUTIONAL POLICY

This is the first accusation made by the court of an investigation that seeks to identify the military responsible for the 6,402 murders of civilians, most of which occurred during the two terms of former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010).

The JEP emphasized that the false positives were part of a Colombian Army policy, and not isolated events.

"The Reconnaissance Chamber found that these were not isolated events or an accidental repetition. The forced disappearances and proven murders had the same characteristics and the same purpose: to respond to the pressure for casualties 'at any cost' and thus satisfy the official indicator of military success in the framework of the institutional policy of counting bodies, "said Judge Catalina Díaz.

There were incentives that played an important role in motivating those responsible for the crimes, said the JEP magistrate. For murdering civilians, the military were rewarded with congratulations, medals, permits, and vacation plans.

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Re: Colombia

Post by blindpig » Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:13 pm

COLOMBIA: BETWEEN BIDEN'S ANXIETY AND URIBE'S DISTURBANCE
Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein

8 Jul 2021 , 8:54 am .

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Joe Biden with Colombian President Iván Duque (Photo: Presidency of Colombia)

The United States Department of State is observing with great unease that in Latin America movements have begun to take place that go beyond its control and that could affect its system of regional domination.

In some of the main bastions where antidemocracy and neoliberalism predominate, a sum of actions motivates such unrest. In Chile, the Constitutional Convention has elected a Mapuche woman as its president and a constitutional lawyer with a clear progressive spirit as vice president, thereby signaling the course of possible debates that could lead to a democratic Constitution after 48 years of dictatorship and post-dictatorship. . In the same way, facing the presidential elections at the end of the year, the communist candidate Daniel Jadue leads all the polls, sending a clear wake of "danger" to Washington.

In other scenarios, the electoral victory of Pedro Castillo in Peru, and the eventual election of Lula in the upcoming elections next year in Brazil, point to an undesired course by the United States for the region, which by the end of next year could have a correlation of forces totally different from the current one.

But where the nervousness of the United States government seems to be concentrated is in Colombia. This country, in addition to the aforementioned conditions in terms of its political and economic system, adds that of being the only one in the region that holds a membership in NATO and to that extent - like Israel in Western Asia - plays the role of aircraft carriers for the presence and military intervention of Washington. These two countries concentrate the summum of the interest of the northern power for the evident place that the United States has indicated to both in the maintenance of its global strategic framework.

In this sense, the patience of the United States with Colombia seems to be waning and with it its concern has grown. A series of recent events are an expression of this. In May, just days after taking office as foreign minister, Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez was forced to travel to Washington to report on the deplorable human rights situation in the country. After visiting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, she herself announced that she had informed Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the results of the meeting. At this point, they no longer even make an effort to hide their subordination to Washington.

It is not that the United States is concerned about the multiple killings that occur daily in Colombia or the murders of social leaders and human rights defenders, but they need to keep the forms. This was what President Joe Biden made known to him in the telephone call he made to President Duque on June 28. The House of Nariño hid this part of the conversation in the official statement in which it "reported" on it, but the White House did not do so, who exposed Duque - in a non-accidental event - obviously aimed at generate pressure on Bogotá. Although it is not to his liking, Biden is forced to act that way, pressured by the progressive lobby of the Democratic Party linked to Bernie Sanders without which he could not have won the electoral victory.

Previously, a series of events generated in Bogotá have puzzled Washington, which cannot decipher the designs of the Uribistas in power. The State Department has considered it inconceivable that Duque has appointed Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno as Colombia's new ambassador to the United States. Pinzón is the nephew of Jorge Eliécer Bueno Sierra, a Colombian drug trafficker who is subject to a life sentence in that country for drug trafficking, confirmed in the second and final instance. Such an appointment has left Blinken's office "against the wall", which has found itself in the dilemma of turning a "blind eye" to the folly of its ally, or rejecting the appointment, evidencing Duque's clumsiness.

Washington has also noted that the Duque government is rejected by almost 80% of Colombians, at the same time that around 75% of citizens support the national strike that already lasts more than two months.

In this context, and although the main concern of the Biden administration with respect to Latin America is to curb the unstoppable undocumented migration to its territory, the situation in Colombia seems to take away the government's sleep.

An unusual "airlift" between Washington and Bogotá inaugurated on June 22 by Admiral Craig Faller, head of the Southern Command and continued by the director of the CIA on June 30, shows the imperial turmoil over the situation of his ally , but they have understood with malignant brilliance that such actions could be used for their permanent aggression against Venezuela.

Two facts of dubious authorship that have not been clarified, that have also motivated inaccurate explanations and that coincidentally were carried out near the border with Venezuela, seem to indicate the use that the United States wants to give to the instability in Colombia and the inability of its government, in order to create conditions for eventual armed operations of any kind against Venezuela. Both the explosion of a car bomb inside a military base located in Cúcuta that left 36 injured on June 15 and the attack on the helicopter in which the president was traveling with two of his ministers on June 26 in the same city. They are surrounded by the most absolute mystery, increasing doubts about the authors and the intentions that could be pursued with such events.

The United States supports the terrorist desperation of Uribism, but believes that it must put some limits on it to prevent things from getting out of control. In his sights are next year's presidential elections. Immediately, after the first attack, he decided to take action on the matter, Faller's trip was aimed at knowing in the field the extent that the government's inability to control the situation and the risks that this entails could have. As if the Colombian authorities could not resolve the matter, Faller reported that the FBI would be the institution that would investigate the attack in order to "clarify the facts and find those responsible and thus guarantee that they are brought to justice ...".

Just a few days later, on June 30, the Colombian ambassador in Washington, Francisco Santos, with his usual lack of sense and in a leading eagerness that desperately seeks his political salvation after his next departure from office, announced that the director of the CIA William Burns would travel to his country on a "delicate" and obviously secret mission. It cannot go unnoticed by anyone that in a little over a week, the main US military commander in the hemisphere, the director of the most important foreign intelligence agency, and President Biden himself, with his phone call to Duque, have become interested in Colombia. This leads to an unusual situation for any country in the world, unless events with unpredictable consequences are occurring there.


The day after Burns' visit, the panorama continued to darken with the arrival in Colombia on July 1, specifically at Combat Air Command No. 5, located in Rionegro, Antioquia, of six F-16 aircraft of the Force. United States Air.

However, what both governments are hiding is that the United States' concern is actually given by the increase in the production and export of cocaine from Colombia. In March, the White House certified Colombia for its results in the fight against drugs in 2020. In the document, the United States recalls that the government of Iván Duque promised to reduce crops by 50% before the end of 2023. That is, to ensure that the hectares planted do not exceed 100,000 and that the production of cocaine is below 450 metric tons.

However, and paradoxically only three months later, on June 25, three days after Faller's visit and five before Burns, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) issued its annual report on coca cultivation and potential cocaine production in the Andean region. The report determined a historical increase in Colombia close to 15% in the last year. In this sense, it is highlighted that Colombia broke records in illicit crops and potential production for cocaine, reaching the highest levels in the last decade. They had an increase close to 15% in 2020, compared to the previous year.

The report indicates that during the last year, the country reached a maximum figure of 245 thousand hectares of coca leaf plantations, after having registered 212 thousand hectares in 2019. Likewise, it went from 936 to 1 thousand 10 tons of potential production of cocaine, far from the figures Duque had committed to.

Within this framework, Burns' "delicate" mission was aimed at discussing this matter with the Colombian government and most likely delivering lists with the first and last names of generals, parliamentarians, ministers and magistrates involved in the drug trafficking business, which has exceeded the governance of the country, putting its political system in check, in the face of obvious disturbance from Washington.

Both Colombia and the United States need to sustain the drug trade. For Colombia it means employment for hundreds of thousands of peasants, which otherwise would add to the vast numbers of marginalization and poverty in the country, increasing its situation of instability and crisis. Thus, it serves to inject resources into its economy by legal means (Plan Colombia) and illegal by means of parallel trade generated by this business.

In the case of the United States, the DEA acts as the regulatory entity that controls the amount of drugs that can circulate in the market. If that amount is reduced, internal violence increases due to the imbalances produced by the decrease in supply, prices rise, generating great discomfort, anxiety and violence among the millions of consumers in the northern country. On the contrary, if supply increases, the market is flooded, increasing the number of consumers and with it crime and health expenses for the troubled US economy.

In 1979, the DEA developed Operation Greenback with the aim of investigating and controlling the routes through which the large amounts of money produced by this illegal business flow, however, such operation was suspended and forgotten without explanation when the audits began. accounts of the most important financial and securities institutions in the United States. It is worth saying that this operation was led by the then vice president and drug czar George Bush, who would later become president. Since then and until now, there is a lack of reliable information about the billions of dollars that circulate through the financial system of the United States and that "help" to support the American way of life. without successive governments having done anything to prevent it, simply because the country would go into chaos.

Thus, the United States acts out of necessity to sustain internal stability on the one hand and its hegemonic interests in the region on the other, and uses the Colombian government, taking advantage of the criminal record it keeps of some of its most recent presidents. This is the real concern of the United States. To avoid setbacks, it will do anything from preparing a favorable replacement that recovers the governance of the country in next year's elections, turning a "blind eye" to the violation of human rights, continuous assassinations and daily massacres in the country, even using Colombian territory for armed actions, assassination attempts and covert operations against Venezuela.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:38 pm

Colombia’s Assassins: Global Terrorism from Libya to Haiti
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JULY 10, 2021

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What does the assassination in Haiti reveal about Colombia?

This Friday, in a joint press conference of the heads of the Military Forces, the Army and the Police of Haiti, some advances of the ongoing investigation on the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse were announced.

The plan of the crime was made in 32 days, according to an infographic shared with the press. The Colombian authorities, at the request of Interpol and the Haitian government, have collaborated in the investigations and have admitted that four Colombian “security contractor companies” participated in the recruitment of the military mercenaries. Six of those named are active military personnel.

Twenty-eight operators are known to be of Colombian origin and two are Haitian-American. They are still searching for others possibly involved.

Context: Evidence of another operation of international scope with use of Colombian mercenaries puts Colombia in the spotlight. This is not the first time that Colombian mercenaries have made world news due to their participation in military operations that cross borders, reports the BBC.

“Over the past two decades, hundreds of Colombian ex-military personnel have been employed by private contractors from countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom to support the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen,” the media outlet notes.

Security experts explained to BBC that the mercenary industry experienced a change after the attacks against the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 and the beginning of the so-called “global war on terror”, which was partially executed by private contractors.

After the Cold War, they argue, the U.S. was interested in outsourcing military interventions in small countries, but with complex conflicts, to reduce the political impact of sacrificing U.S. troops.

“The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed the private military industry to mature, with established mercenary networks and some best practices,” writes Sean McFate, a U.S. expert on the subject.

The industry led to the creation of companies such as Blackwater, a private military firm that, according to State Department reports, trained Colombian military and paramilitaries in 2005, notes BBC.

Data: According to various journalistic data and facts determined and demonstrated by official sources in recent years, the presence of mercenaries of Colombian origin has been registered chronologically in the following events and countries:

Finca Daktari, Venezuela, 2004. Some 153 retired military and paramilitary personnel, all of Colombian origin, were arrested in Caracas in an operation attempting to assassinate President Hugo Chávez and carry out a coup d’état.

Capture and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, 2011. During the capture of the Libyan leader and his exposure on video, voices in Spanish with Colombian accents were heard and, in fact, the presence of former paid military personnel in these operations would later be confirmed.

Attempted assassination of President Maduro, Venezuela, 2018. Colombian military and ex-military personnel, together with Americans, collaborated with fugitive Venezuelan military personnel in the execution of the thwarted assassination of President Maduro with armed drones. The operations were planned in Colombia.

Operation Gedeon, Venezuela, 2020. Colombia provided its territory for Venezuelan military fugitives and Colombian mercenaries to set up camps. The operations were dispatched to Venezuela and failed.

Why it is important: The destabilization and assassination industry is consolidating in Colombia. Coupled with its already widely known threat factors, this element puts the NATO member country and U.S. ally in the spotlight.

If Colombia were to be analyzed as the U.S. categorizes the countries it designates as a “threat” it would certainly not pass the test.

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Most mercenaries are hardly more than heavily armed rentacops, the 'Rambo' types often imagined are few and far between. When push comes to shove most are unreliable cowards, as was the case with this clown car, which probably contained one or a couple of murderous competence who actually did the deed. The rest were cannon fodder.
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They assassinate a social leader with his family in Antioquia, Colombia

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Indepaz denounced that until last Friday there were 291 deaths due to massacres and homicides of social leaders in 2021. | Photo: EFE

Published July 19, 2021 (2 hours 43 minutes ago)

The event constituted the 53rd massacre that has occurred in the South American country so far this year, Indepaz noted.

Armed subjects murdered social leader Luis Castrillón, along with his family, on Sunday in a rural community in the department of Antioquia, in northwestern Colombia, a human rights defender denounced.

At least ten armed men arrived at the village of La Cruz, located in the municipality of Yolombó, Antioquia, and in a public establishment they killed four people, indicated the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) on its Twitter account .

The victims were identified as Luis Castrillón, leader and current treasurer of the Community Action Board (JAC) of the village of La Cruz, María Piedad Ramírez (wife), Esneyder (son) and Fray Zapata, a young man with cognitive difficulties, the organization detailed non-governmental (NGO).


The event constituted the 53rd massacre that has occurred in the South American country so far this year, Indepaz noted.

According to the commander of the seventh division of the Colombian Army, Brigadier General Juvenal Díaz Mateus, in the area where the crime occurred, crop eradication is being carried out.

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In addition, threats are reported to residents in the Mata canyon and routes are being used for different illegal economies, the NGO tweet mentioned.

Last Friday, Indepaz reported that from January to that date there were 291 deaths from massacres and homicides of social leaders in Colombia, and specified that "Antioquia is the department in which most of the massacres have been committed."

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Funny how you never hear news like this from Cuba or Nicaragua...they can't even make it up, it is too easily disproved, unlike the cyber mischief the Russians and now Chinese are accused of, which by it's very nature is vapor.
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Colombia Lauds Cuba Riots Yet Represses Mass Dissent at Home

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Protests against Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia have hypocritically received a fraction of the coverage Cuba's outbursts on July 11 have gotten by international mainstream media. | Photo: Twitter/@dsal1829

Published 20 July 2021 (16 hours 16 minutes ago)

Colombia’s government has been called hypocritical after calling for solidarity with protesters in Cuba as it cracks down harshly on mass demonstrations against economic inequity and human rights abuses.

Colombia sees another round of anti-poverty demonstrations, with large marches planned for Tuesday 20 July, Colombia’s independence day, despite a month-long hiatus during a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Colombia’s right-wing government, led by President Iván Duque, alleges the marches are the result of “terrorist” agitators and are supported by illegally operating armed groups.

Yet, the Colombian government’s tone towards dissent at home differs from its support for protests in Cuba. Colombia’s foreign ministry calls on the Cuban government to “guarantee the freedom of expression” and “respect the right” to peaceful protest.

Protests in Colombia began in late April over unpopular and since-removed tax reform, quickly spreading across the country, morphing into a broader movement of outrage against deepening economic disparity and human rights abuses.

Police kiosks and bus stations were vandalized, and protesters erected roadblocks around the country.

The police response was brutal, as officers regularly using teargas and billy clubs to quell disturbances. In many cases, authorities fired on demonstrators with live rounds. According to local organizations, at least 44 protesters have been killed by police, and dozens are still missing.

A recent human rights commission to Colombia made up of delegates from 13 countries found that authorities used counter-insurgency tactics against protesters.

“The Duque government has zero credibility commenting on the Cuban protests,” said Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Andes director at the Washington Office on Latin America, a think tank. “Its unwillingness to address the systemic abuses that took place in the context of the protests shows that it only considers human rights when it benefits its political agenda.”
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-2.5 months of national strike
-50 massacres
-77 protesters killed
-1468 assaulted

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Cuba
-24 hours of astroturfed protests

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Duque announced Monday minor reforms to the national police, including new uniforms and increased training for anti-riot officers, yet critics say the changes are cosmetic rather than substantive.

Ahead of Tuesday’s planned demonstrations, police cracked down on protesters, arresting 12 members of the so-called “frontline,” a group of mostly young protesters who have skirmished with police at marches in cities nationwide.

Celebrating the arrests as though they were a vast drug seizure, Colombia’s defense minister, Diego Molano, tweeted images of the suspected agitators and their seized equipment, including hard hats, respirators, and what appeared to be homemade grenades, photographed next to a bandana emblazoned with the words “SOS Colombia, they are killing us."

Nearly 3,000 soldiers have been dispatched to Bogotá, where they will monitor bus stations and protest hotspots on the city's edges. In Cali, a major city in Colombia’s southwest and the center of unrest in April, a curfew and ban on liquor sales was announced, while the surrounding Valle del Cauca province is on lockdown. Police said they’ll confiscate any “shields, helmets, goggles, and respirators” from protesters.

Those sympathetic to protesters claim the government is fearmongering as part of their coordinated campaign of repression against protesters.

“They’re trying to whip up fear; they’re detaining people arbitrarily. The police don’t come out to control crowds; they come out with rifles raised – they’re preparing for large-scale repression,” said Laura Guerrero, whose son Nicolás Guerrero was killed at a protest in Cali. “The right to protest exists, but the police don’t respect it.”

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The Duque Administration Arrests 134 Colombians

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Published 26 July 2021

In a new attempt to criminalize social protest, the Colombian government issued arrest warrants against the frontline youths accusing them of having received financing from the guerrilla.


Colombia's Defense Minister Diego Molano on Sunday announced the arrest of 134 citizens who had been protesting against President Ivan Duque on the "front line."

"We maintain actions for a safe democracy," Molano said as he reported that the National Police executed those arrests through 34 operations in 18 cities.

Bogota, Cali and Soacha are the cities where the largest number of apprehensions were made. According to data provided by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the arrested citizens are accused of vandalism, road blockades, attacks against authority, and damage to property.

These arrests take place a few days after the Colombian Police arrested 12 people, who were accused of possessing explosive materials with which they allegedly intended to attack security forces.


Since the beginning of the National Strike on April 28, citizens protesting on the "front line" have attempted to protect Colombians with homemade shields from the projectiles launched indiscriminately by the mobile anti-riot squad (ESMAD).

In a new attempt to criminalize social protest, the Duque administration issued arrest warrants against the frontline youths accusing them of having received financing from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

In reaction to police brutality against protesters, national and international human rights organizations have repeatedly called on the Colombian government to disband the ESMAD.

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Colombia Records 101 Assassinations of Social Leaders So Far This Year

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The sign reads, "We are not a military target, No more assassinated leaders.", Bogota, Colombia, Nov. 11, 2021. | Photo: EFE

Published 24 July 2021

Activist Jose Vianey was murdered in the "La Montañita" community in Caqueta, after being shot by unidentified gunmen.


On Saturday, the Institute for Peace (INDEPAZ) confirmed the assassination of Jose Vianey, who became the social leader 101 murdered by irregular armed groups operating with impunity in Colombia.

Vianey was found dead in the "La Montañita" community in Caqueta, after being shot by unidentified gunmen.

He was the local community Action Board's Attorney, where he supported rural workers' demands.

Local authorities launched an investigation to determine the instigators and the motives behind the murder. Nevertheless, Vianney's neighbors explained that he was killed due to his fight against the illegal occupation of lands by criminal groups.

Illegal armed groups expelled farmers from their property to develop drugs productions and trafficking.

Social leaders and human rights defenders are the most affected by these assassinations, which take place amid a profound political crisis in the country.

President Ivan Duque decided not to hear social movements' demands for health assistance, economic support, and security. Instead, he started repressing them, causing over 70 deaths among the civilian population in recent protests.

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Geez, barely a whisper of this on npr, the information choice of smart liberals. Meanwhile thay and the MSM salivates, damn near masturbates, over the trumped up 'news' from Cuba. This is your 'fair and balanced' free press....

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ENCLAVES, MERCENARIES AND EXTERMINATIONS: THE COMMON BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND ISRAEL

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Militarization as a tool for ordering looting and regional destabilization is common in both imperial enclaves (Photo: Oliver Ehmig)

It has been a long time since it has been heard that Colombia is the Israel of Latin America, this statement has been made by different analysts and political figures, especially when in the last decade its role as a North American base has deepened, which serves as an experiment and a focus to destabilize the zone.

In that country, a never specified number of military bases have been located that have actually served as counterinsurgency troops, because when it comes to drug trafficking, their failures are more than evident, and even overwhelming. Having seen the news this week regarding coordination among some senior officers of the Army and narco - paramilitary groups, particularly p rotegían the actions of the Clan Barros a peasant clan ally of the Clan of the Gulf dedicated to drug trafficking and smuggling petrol in the departments of La Guajira, Cesar, Magdalena, Atlántico and the south of Bolívar.

Colombia is the first supplier of cocaine to the United States, each year it beats its own record as a country that produces the alkaloid and this data is closely linked to two aspects in which its coincidence with Israel is total: war as a permanent mechanism of an elite to exercise supremacy and paramilitarization of that mechanism.

However, on the issue of drug trafficking, which today is vital for the capitalist economy, the two imperial enclaves are not similar. In this "division of labor" they do not play the same role because Colombia provides the raw material while Israel provides the weapons and genocidal strategies to protect production.

ENCLAVES OF IMPERIAL CONTROL AND BATTERING RAMS OF MILITARIZATION

Both enclaves have the mission of imposing the war that the United States is leading in Latin America and Western Asia respectively. In the case of the neighboring country and its Plan Colombia, the failure has been evident because the real objectives of "preventing the flow of illegal drugs to the United States" were not achieved.

The only achievement was to weaken the FARC guerrilla movement by trying all kinds of strategies until incubating a counterinsurgency model that could be applied in other latitudes such as Mexico or Afghanistan, where the results have been as disastrous or more disastrous.

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The militarization of Colombian society has impacted the guerrilla insurgency and the political opposition to neoliberalism more than drug trafficking, the numbers of which are increasing unstoppably (Photo: AP Photo)

Meanwhile, a State that arose on the basis of the violent expulsion of the Palestinian population that had inhabited that territory for many centuries, called "Israel", is testing in an open-air laboratory both the repression and the tests of the largest weapons of the country. world in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There he has a captive population of several million Palestinians while he says that it is the resistance movements that carry out this kidnapping.

Their origins are dissimilar, but the corporate plans emanating from the United States have made the coincidences more than evident, the elites of both countries have tried to make them widely armed and financed. Israel, with an important nuclear arsenal, has sought to crush as much Arab revolutionary expression as possible, it has also invaded its neighbors Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, annexing strategic territories such as the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jerusalem.

The symbiosis between Colombia and the United States is such that Uribism, in government for almost 20 years, accelerated plans to maintain control of the region by installing US military bases. The results are reflected in the report of a member of the Proclade Foundation, promoted by the Claretian missionaries, "North American Military Bases in Colombia", which highlights:

" From the beginning of Plan Colombia and later the Plan Patriota, the Tres Esquinas and Larandia bases, located in the Department of Caquetá, had been used for the operation of planes and North American technical intelligence. From there the fumigations with glyphosate were controlled. and control over the population was maintained, increasing the war and increasing the number of displacements. As in the case of the communities of Bajo Ariari in the Department of Meta, or the communities of Puerto Asís in Putumayo, it is evident the true intentions: in these regions the military control was directed towards the civilian population, there were murders and disappearances under the responsibility of the Military Forces ".

Colombia, after the so-called Plan for Peace and the Strengthening of the State (alias Plan Colombia), which has given the population less peace and less State, has gone in the opposite direction to the objective postulated by the Pastrana administration in 1998: to promote peace, economic development, increase security and end the illegal drug trade. What it has achieved is to strengthen the army, which had 35 helicopters in 1999 and had more than 200 aircraft in 2015, after the supposed completion of the plan.

The number of military personnel increased by 50 thousand soldiers and 80 thousand new members were incorporated into the National Police, which depends on the Ministry of Defense even though its function is supposedly civilian.

Eduardo Giordano affirms that after the peace agreement, the Pentagon sought to have the Colombian military replace its marines by establishing links between Plan Colombia, the Merida Initiative and the Initiative for Regional Security in Central America. This is how the Colombian Army has been trained in anti-guerrilla techniques by the Southern Command and, in turn, they have trained forces from other countries such as the Joint Task Force (JTF) of the Paraguayan army.

This support coincided with the massacre of two Argentine girls aged 12 and 11 respectively last November, they were staying in a camp of the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP), a guerrilla organization formed in 2006 that took hold in some rural territories after the legislative coup. against former president Fernando Lugo in 2012. President Abdo Benítez, in the style of any recent Colombian government, reported them as casualties of guerrilla forces in combat.

LOOTING GENDARMES

Multiple investigations report the results of the militarization of the enclave that Colombia has become, how it has focused on rural territories and its correlation with extractive interests, that is, with the ordering of the world based on the plundering appetite of the Global North.

The resistance of rural populations, expressed in peasant, indigenous and Afro-Colombian struggles, is fought with blood and fire by the Colombian State, which, like the gendarme of a large mine, imposes a regime of terror that orders the primary accumulation of capital, both monoculture (which includes coca), such as mining and extensive cattle ranching.

Colombia is a country where, according to Oxfam , 1% of owners have 81% of the land in their possession, meanwhile, the remaining 19% -which produces 78% of the food- is distributed among 99% of the small owners; militarization has intensified the concentration of rural property, paramilitarism and forced displacement.

Only in the Catatumbo region of the Norte de Santander Department, on the border with Venezuela and with a greater extension of coca cultivation, there are outstanding 9,200 members of the Military Forces (without adding the police) and there are almost 300,000 people. This means one military man for every 33 inhabitants.

This does not translate into security for the communities, the Indepaz Foundation georeferenced the risk for both social leaders and opposition politicians, and found that it is greater in the territories with the highest concentration of military personnel and concluded that the municipalities are the most violent for society. organized are in Catatumbo, Cauca and Arauca.

In parallel, the government of Iván Duque has sustained the war to maintain the authoritarian and genocidal policies of his mentor Álvaro Uribe with the excuse of an internal enemy, it has done everything to sabotage the opportunity to eradicate war as a political code in Colombia.

It has failed to comply with the peace agreement, mainly the comprehensive rural reform that allowed the expropriation of lands from the large landowners to give them to the peasants, who could recover them, and return to their territories. It has reversed the logic of the Alienation of Property Rights, a legal figure contemplated in the 1992 Constitution to be able to expropriate land from the big and give it to the peasants, putting more and more land in the hands of transnationals through internal displacement.

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Indigenous communities have mobilized for the Uribista government of Duque to concretely resolve the violence and displacement in their territories (Photo: La República)

In addition, in August 2020 he signed the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and Israel, which has been criticized by various sectors , including the BDS organization, because it violates International Humanitarian Law. Four of the 312 Israeli companies that exported their products to Colombia between August 2014 and August 2015 have their headquarters in territories illegally occupied by Israel since 1967, so, more than coincidence, it is a coexistence based on dispossession and subordination.

Colombian exports will be less than Israel's, which would create uneven competition. In terms of telecommunications, Colombia will open itself to Israeli companies, while Israel closes itself to the participation of Colombian companies in its market.

Official documents of the Ministry of Commerce confirm the increase in imports of weapons and military equipment, which was 49.6% in 2010, and with the treaty, they assure that imports will grow more easily, which may affect the already complicated transition to the post-conflict country.

PEACE ACCORDS AS AN IMPETUS FOR MORE EXTERMINATION

Another coincidence (or coexistence) is that, in both countries, dialogue is only a way to buy time to organize the extermination of those who resist looting and occupation. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded in 1969 as a representation of a nation without territory, Palestine, sought to unify those living in the occupied territories and in refugee camps.

From its birth it vindicated a democratic, secular and non-racist Palestine, and its leader Yasser Arafat, after years of leading the resistance against the Zionist entity, accepted UN Resolution 242, which recognizes its existence as a State of Israel; later he also agreed to negotiate the Oslo Accords.

In these agreements, signed in 1993 between Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, United States President Bill Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, it was agreed to create a Palestinian state limited to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that barely exists in one limited administration of the current Palestinian National Authority (PNA), in a West Bank occupied by Zionist troops and its illegal colonies.

While Arafat was poisoned with polonium 210, the two-state policy did not prevent the process of forced displacement of the Palestinian people, but Israel has tried to occupy the entire territory of historic Palestine.

In Colombia, according to data presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Colombian State produced 6 thousand victims after a peace agreement signed in 1985 between the then-conservative president, Belisario Betancur, and the FARC to end almost three decades of armed conflict. As the negotiations advanced, members of the Patriotic Union (UP) were being killed or were fleeing, as the political formation made up of former guerrillas, communists, trade unionists, communal action boards and left-wing intellectuals was called.

Murders, disappearances, torture, forced displacement and other abuses contributed to the figure, between May 1984 and December 2002 at least 4,153 full members of the party were assassinated. This figure includes 2 presidential candidates, 14 parliamentarians, 15 mayors, 9 mayoral candidates, 3 members of the House of Representatives and 3 senators. Not a month went by without a murder or disappearance of a militant.

Within 14 months of the liberal Virgilio Barco Vargas taking office in May 1986, some 400 members of the UP were assassinated. Journalist Dan Cohen cites an investigation by Colombian journalist Alberto Donadio who claims that the "Red Dance" was devised by Barco Vargas, implementing a plan drawn up by the decorated Israeli spy Rafael "Rafi" Eitan.

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The mass extermination of pacified opposition groups is a story that repeats itself within Colombia but is also common to Israel (Photo: File)

From the signing of the 2016 peace agreement to the present, 1,219 murders of social leaders have been registered with a high concentration in the most militarized areas. In addition, 278 signers of the peace agreement have been assassinated and 400 former combatants still remain in jail to whom the agreed amnesty has not been applied.

Neither are the committed development plans being carried out, which would allow ex-combatants to be able to integrate into civil society. The reintegration has stopped persecuting them, putting them in jail and killing them, but it does not allow them to live for integration.

MERCENARIES: LETHAL WEAPONS FOR HIRE
Another coincidence (or coexistence) is the export of "human talent" for the war. In 2019, the Israeli daily Haaretz revealed that Israeli officials were training mostly Colombian and Nepalese foreign mercenaries in camps financed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Negev desert, located in the south of the occupied territories. The mission was to participate in the aggression that began in March 2015 against Yemen, in which the Saudi coalition had left, until last December, some 233 thousand deaths according to the UN, most of them due to "indirect causes" such as malnutrition thanks to the naval blockade. supported by the United States.

Another Israeli came to Colombia to "train" manpower for supposed security, it is Yair Klein who complied with training narco-paramilitaries on how to defeat the FARC. Out of former Israeli police and special operations units the retired military officer founded a mercenary company called Hod Hahanit (Spearhead) in 1984.

In his research, Cohen recounts how Hod Hahanit supported the "notoriously brutal" Christian Falangist militias that massacred between 800 and 3,500 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps under Israel's direct military supervision in September 1982.

Klein trained in Colombia the brothers Carlos and Fidel Castaño, the leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) financed by Colombian landowners, drug traffickers, ranchers, politicians, and the military, responsible for massacres in which chainsaws were used to assassinate and dismember Colombia. peasants, to the point that the UN estimated in 2016 that they were responsible for 80% of the deaths in the conflict.

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The AUC was promoted by the Colombian oligarchy and its training supported by Yair Klein, a retired Israeli official whom the Zionist entity refuses to extradite for the murder of Luis Carlos Galán (Photo: Pedro Ugarte / AFP)

The AUC was promoted by the Colombian landowning oligarchy and its training underpinned by Yair Klein, a retired Israeli official whom the Zionist entity refuses to extradite for the murder of Luis Carlos Galán

In 2012, he told the BBC that, for his work with the paramilitaries, he had had the direct support of the Army and other Colombian state institutions, in addition to having received funding from someone who would later become president of the country. "He was one of the landowners in the area, who paid like all landowners so that I could do the training at that time," he said.

He also trained Jaime Eduardo Rueda Rocha, the material author of the murder of the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party, Luis Carlos Galán, the great favorite to win the elections. He imported the Israeli-made weapon used from Miami and remains in Israel, where authorities refuse to hand it over to Colombia for extradition.

The clearest example of where all these coincidences are headed is the announcement by John Kirby, a spokesman for the United States Department of Defense, who confirmed that the Pentagon trained at least seven of the 23 former Colombian military personnel who participated in the assassination of the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, on July 7.

Although the warmongering bureaucrat refused to provide the names of those involved, he affirmed that, being active military personnel, they participated in "training courses" that, according to him, did not seek to encourage events such as those that happened in Haiti.

A paramilitary network supported and encouraged by the Colombian State, such as the so-called "security companies", participated directly in the assassination. Colombian authorities admitted that four of them were involved.

Five Americans of Haitian origin, those in charge of the president's surveillance and a Haitian doctor living in Florida participated in the operation in which the mercenaries were recruited by Anthony Intriago, an anti-Chavista Venezuelan representative of CTU Security LLC, and Alfred Santamaría, a Colombian close to Uribe and Duque.

Intriago carried out with the Colombian president the Live Aid Venezuela concert in Cúcuta in February 2019 that sought to prepare the ground for a "humanitarian" invasion of Venezuelan territory and called the Battle of the Bridges. Recently, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, announced that he had information that links CTU with the attempted assassination of August 4, 2018 against President Nicolás Maduro.

Militarization focused on repression and extermination is functional to a concept that has privatized the war, the Colombian military "human talent" is trained for these objectives and is cheap labor, or a weapon for hire. The military forces have up to 220,000 troops and thousands are retiring due to lack of promotion opportunities, misconduct or after serving 20 years of service.

Regarding Venezuela, in addition to the 153 paramilitaries captured in 2004 when, with the demonstrated support of the Uribe government, a plan was hatched from Colombia to assassinate then-President Hugo Chávez.

Recently Israeli mercenaries participated in Operation Gideon against the Venezuelan government, the operation with full participation of the US Drug Control Administration (DEA) was articulated by the Venezuelan Major Juvenal Sequea Torres, both for the entry into Venezuelan territory of mercenaries and to stop the kidnapping and transfer out of the country of the president and deputy Diosdado Cabello.

Judgment No. 89 of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice states that "Two platoons of Israeli commandos would participate in the group of mercenaries, who are in the Caribbean Sea aboard the Fourth Fleet of the United States under the direction of the Admiral Craig Faller (…) justifying the Operation according to the unfounded accusations against the Venezuelan State as a Narco State ".

NEITHER REPUBLICS NOR DEMOCRACIES

The transformation of Colombia into an imperialist enclave seeks the deconfiguration of regional stability and integration. Its impact is already beginning to be seen in the assassination carried out in Haiti, which has sought to deepen the crisis of a country on the brink of total collapse.

Inside Colombia, the rural population is exploited, oppressed and displaced with methods that resemble the apartheid applied by Israel against the Palestinians. In addition to being expelled, the population is stripped of their basic rights, turning them into second or third class people within their own country.

The notion of the State that sustains both countries is based on being war machines at the service of political-economic networks that exercise hegemony to the detriment of impoverished sectors. They do this using territorial displacement as a fundamental tool.

The coexistence of Colombia and Israel, today, is only justified by war and the looting of resources. It is not about national identity, much less about republican or democratic values: it is about accumulation by dispossession in its very essence.

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