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Post by blindpig » Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:10 pm

Esmad attacks two international observers in Colombia

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The agents had identified the international observers one day before the peaceful protest in Casanare. | Photo: EFE
Published 26 January 2018 (13 hours 31 minutes ago)

The international observers accompanied a peaceful mobilization when they were repressed by Esmad officials.
The Social Corporation for Community Counseling and Training (Cospacc) and the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher) denounced on Friday that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad ( ESADAD ) attacked two international observers during a demonstration.

On January 25, peasant communities protested peacefully in the village of La Venturosa in the municipality of San Luis de Palenque, department of Casanare (east), to demand compliance with the agreements with the Canadian oil company Frontera Energy.

A group of Esmad, who with the purpose of repressing the mobilization, threw stones and gases against the demonstrators and intentionally against the two international observers belonging to Redher," they said in a statement .

The officials, Philipp Christopher Altgeld and Jannis Chiarle, of German and Canadian nationality respectively, accompanied the human rights defenders of Cospacc and the day before they were identified by the National Police.

After the breach of the agreement signed between the oil company and the Communal Action Boards, last October, the residents declared themselves in a permanent assembly since January 22 and notified the municipal authorities.

"We ask the corresponding authorities to carry out the relevant investigations, identify and punish those responsible," they reiterated. In addition, they asked the national and international organizations to follow up, as well as guarantees from the Colombian Government.

https://www.telesurtv.net/news/esmad-at ... -0070.html

jfc, all of this 'asking' ain't doing nothing but encouraging the fascists.
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Post by blindpig » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:12 pm

A Plan and a Criminal Force
Written by Gabriel Ángel

An insurgent force fightings the State for more than half a century, which has to its credit an indeterminate number of combatants killed, crippled or disappeared because of the war, and to which an indeterminate number of casualties in the opposite ranks are also attributed, sign the peace, first of all, so that there are no more dead.

No more dead from either of the opposing sides. Those who dedicate themselves to counting this, affirm that one year after the end of the armed conflict more than 3000 lives have been saved because of the absence of confrontation. Neither soldiers, nor police, nor agents of intelligence or security of the State have fallen again under the fire of the FARC

However, although it is fair to acknowledge that the public forces ceased any hostility against the guerrillas who left their weapons, what is happening in the country gives the impression that although the bloodshed of state agents came to an end, the same thing does not happen with the lives of the former guerrillas, their militia, their supporters in rural areas.

The new FARC party denounces that there are already 36 dead in a violent way among the reincorporated former guerrillas. To these we must add the relatives of others former fighters, and the scandalous figure of more than a hundred social and popular leaders murdered in different regions of the country. It means that the State does not fulfill its basic duty to guarantee the life of its citizens.

Someone said that the Havana Agreements did not contain anything that was not already contemplated in the National Constitution, that in them the State simply reaffirmed its commitment to comply with a series of obligations, which it had always disregarded. I do not dare to say that it is indeed so, but in what it does about the right to life is certainly so.

We have heard the most diverse arguments to dismiss the idea that there is indeed a systematic persecution against the members of our People’s Alternative and Revolutionary Force Party. Let's review some of them, leaving aside the skirts affair to which the Minister of Defense referred pathetically, on an unlucky day for him.

Those killed are boys who, at their own risk, have left the Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation - ETCR, without any kind of police protection, and who have gone to visit their families in areas of high risk, where they are known there is the presence of groups outside the law, not to mention paramilitary groups. That is, they died as naive.

Or it is about boys who, disillusioned with the realities derived from the slow process of reincorporation, resolved to marginalize themselves from the ETCR and link themselves to individual activities that are not very holy. Some would have looked for bands linked to drug trafficking, illegal mining or other activities. Their violent deaths are then due to internal fights. Bad luck.

Others thought that by signing the peace and laying down their arms, any reason for concern about their safety would be over, and they resolved to marginalize themselves from the process and the ETCR in order to carry on an independent life, like any countryman who came to an area looking for work. They could have fallen into fights or at the hands of those resentful with the FARC. They were over confident.

For the sake of debate, we could accept that some deaths may have occurred due to these or similar causes. Everything is in the vineyard of the Lord, as they say. But if we examine some of the most recent murders, we will conclude that something is very wrong. Wilmar Asprilla and Ángel de Jesús Montoya, were murdered in Peque, after having held a political meeting.

They promoted the candidacy of Wilmar Cartagena Durango to the Chamber for Antioquia. Three days later, a commission of members of the FARC Party was ambushed in the La Bodega del Oasis sector in the Municipality of Arauquita. All left unharmed, although there was exchange of shots with the group of bodyguards. The car in which they were traveling was incinerated.

Last Tuesday we were notified that some hitmen murdered comrade Jacobo Cristian Camilo, former political prisoner of FARC Occidente, organizer and political manager of Afro and indigenous communities in northern Cauca. Threats against ours and their headquarters in the Pacific area have been denounced. In Quibdó the House of the Common was attacked this week.

In Medellín, Aracelly Cañaveral and Wilson López, two militants of our party, have been threatened with death by the Gaitanista Autodefensas de Colombia.

It happens daily in one part of the country and another. It is evident that easy excuses begin to be over.

There is a plan and some criminal forces that the State must recognize and defeat. That is what they have committed to.

http://farc-epeace.org/blogs/gabriel-an ... force.html

who could imagine it would turn out like this? who has forgotten the 80's?

jfc, the State is the criminal force.
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Post by blindpig » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:38 pm

FARC launch its elections webpage

After the official launch of its electoral campaign and the presentation to the country of its candidates to the Presidency of the Republic and the Congress, the FARC has now launched its new website dedicated to the next elections.

The website can be accessed here:

http://timopresidente.com.co/

Rodrigo Londoño, Timochenko, has spoken in Ciudad Bolivar last Saturday and has outlined the manifesto of the FARC for the elections to be held in March (Congress Elections) and May (Presidential elections).

Londoño underlined that "the FARC has arrived to start a new way of making politics. We will put the people at the centre of the State".

Timochenko has told the people at Ciudad Bolivar: "From today I am candidate to the Presidency of the Republic. I represent my party: the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force. I committ myself to lead this transition govern to create the conditions for the birth of a new Colombia".

The website offers biographies and information about all of the FARC candidates, as well as of Timochenko. It will also publish the speeches and information related to the electoral campaign.

The reasons for a Transition Govern are also published in the new website and will also be available in English soon.

http://farc-epeace.org/peace-process/ne ... bpage.html
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Post by blindpig » Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:27 pm

Public denounce to the national and international community

Murder of People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force Party in the Region of Nariño

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Region of Nariño, Municipality of Santa Cruz de Guachavéz

On Thursday 25 January 2018 an armed group of people who identified themselves as members of the ELN (National Liberation Army), captured and later murdered a William Rivera (Emilio Sucre), Jhojan Silva Paz (Milton Garcia) and Jose Luis Cortez Cabezas (Anderson Guerrero).

We asked for the life of Alex Santa Cruz, who is still in the hands of this group, to be respected.

The three comrades killed were members of our Party FARC, as is Alex Santa Cruz.

According to information received, the bodies of the three comrades are buried in the Salto cemetery in the La Paloma locality, municipality of Samaniego.

We demand guarantees for the life and personal integrity of the life of the families of William Rivera, Jhojan Silva Paz and Jose Luis Cortez Cabezas, as well as of all the FARC members.

We demand to the National Government to carry out all the required actions aimed at clarifying the murder of William Rivera, Jhojan Silva Paz and Jose Luis Cortez Cabezas, as well as the disappearance of Alex Santa Cruz and to guarantee the right to life, freedom, personal and psychological safety, personal, family intimacy, as well as the honour and reputation of the members of the People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force Party in the region of Nariño.

To the Governor of Nariño we demand to comply with its institutional role to guarantee the rights to life, freedom, personal and psychological safety, personal, family intimacy, as well as the honour and reputation of the members of the People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force Party in the region of Nariño.

We call the International Community to follow the situation of human rights of the members of the FARC in Nariño and to ask to the Colombian State to respect and implement the internal and external rules they have signed up to and to comply with the implementation of the Peace Agreement signed in Havana.

http://farc-epeace.org/communiques/farc ... unity.html

Nowhere in this statement can we find FARC's ascertainment as to whether the murders actually were ELN or not. This is disturbing, whose side are they on?
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Post by blindpig » Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:48 pm

The Alternative between Peace and War
Written by Gabriel Ángel

Last Saturday the electoral campaign of the FARC begun: the candidatures were launched to Congress of the Republic, Presidency and Vice Presidency.

The chosen stage was Ciudad Bolívar, in the south of the capital, on a sunny afternoon and animated by the music of Reincidentes Bogotá, joy committed to change.

Indeed, the vocalist of this group is a militant of the new party, and his commitment goes much further. His name is Manuel Garzón, and besides being part of the list of candidates to the House of Representatives for Bogota, headed by our old friend and comrade Byron Yepes, he is the accusing lawyer of Santiago Uribe.

Those who spoke that day, besides Byron, whose first name is Jairo González Mora, son of the agrarian leader Gerardo González, were our head of list to the Senate Iván Márquez, the candidate for the Vice Presidency, Imelda Daza, who has the virtue to send shivers down listeners’ spine both for her powerful voice and the feeling she transmits, and of course, Timo, or Rodrigo Londoño.

That we expected a greater influx of public, it is true. Although it was not as little as our adversaries would have liked, to rejoice with our loneliness. What is certain is that we broke the ice, for the first time in 53 years, the FARC spoke in a popular sector, in a political campaign.

And that has an extraordinary significance. Not only because of the accumulated history, but because a face is put to fear, openly, with confidence and optimism. There were many people outside, as they say, following the act from the iron barrier, not sure if fully enter. You know what holds them back is the fear of retaliation.

And not on our part. They fear being killed, persecuted for showing sympathy to our cause. That, precisely, is what we have to overcome, in the midst of a series of hostilities. That curiously do not seem to come from the public force. The Police and the Army are willing to cooperate in everything related to the safety of the new movement.

Anyway it is necessary to throw ourselves into the water. It was what we saw last Saturday. There was a noticeable assistance from the Communists, who followed the development of the event with interest. And also from different organizations, such as the campaign for the freedom of Simón Trinidad, with their shirts, banners and slogans. There was also a lot of youth.

People who do not hesitate to wear a shirt that says FARC and carries the logo of the red rose. That raises to the wind flags with the slogan “Timo for President”. Who sings, shouts slogans and applauds excited the candidates. The common people, they call themselves, they also say we are the party of the rose, and they repeat it with energy, while they smile with happiness.

That dawn, an urban ELN commando had carried out an attack against a CAI in Barranquilla, with a balance of five dead and more than forty injured. Pure oxygen for the extreme right, which does not hesitate to use such behaviour against the left as a whole and particularly against the FARC.

It is a pity that these events happen, just when from different scenarios you hear voices calling for peace talks and a ceasefire between the ELN and the Government. Actions like that do not arise sympathy, people in Colombia are weary of war, of bloodthirsty violence, the consequences speak for themselves.

The ELN alleges the Government's breaches of the previous cease-fire, but insists on dialoguing simultaneously with the attacks. Figures are compared, 19 dead guerrillas, 7 policemen, etc. The Government suspends the talks and orders to intensify the fire. Chocó is bombed. Some say a camp, others say an indigenous community.

The troop ensures that the injured indigenous girl and Afro-descendant are guerrillas. The ELN say they are civilians, the ONIC affirms that the indigenous woman was recruited by force, General Mejía adds that the ELN forcibly recruits desperate children and Venezuelans. In short, a tower of Babel and an escalation of violence that will not produce revolutions nor democratic openings.

They say that in Arauca, old FARC deserters, who now appear as dissidents and who threaten to kill the candidates of the new party, were endorsed by the ELN to act. Who knows.

Once I heard Gabino affirm that after 50 years of fighting with arms, it had not been possible to change the country and it was therefore convenient to look for other ways.

Many may think is naive and others stubborn treason, but it is clear that the only viable way to improve the country is the one chosen by the FARC, a Peace Agreement and a new way of making politics.

Doing so requires much more value than waging war.

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http://farc-epeace.org/blogs/gabriel-an ... d-war.html

Mebbe naive, mebbe treason, but definitely something that ain't working. Angel is starting to really piss me off.
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Post by blindpig » Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:14 pm

We have decided to suspend the campaign activities, until we have enough guarantees
Written by National Political Council - Farc

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"Colombia can not become an electorally failed state, because of the enemies of peace"

The successive attacks carried out against the electoral campaign of the Revolutionary Alternative Force of the Common, FARC, in the departments of Quindío, Caquetá and Valle del Cauca, which already receive the first wounded and bruises, including two minors, in addition to material damage to vehicles and a union headquarters, show the existence of a coordinated plan, aimed at preventing the political participation of a legally constituted party, after the peace agreement that ended an armed conflict of more than half a century and that originated, precisely , intolerance and political exclusion, mixed with partisan violence.

The threats, accusations and photos taken at the homes of FARC militants are added to the aforementioned, while text messages on social networks inciting violence abound, as well as images in which those responsible can be clearly identified. These criminal acts, among which are some regional leaders of the Democratic Center party, as well as well-known professional provocateurs such as Mr. Gustavo Muñoz, all in the midst of surprising impunity.

The right to protest can not be used as an argument to justify facts and conduct, classified as crimes in the Colombian criminal code. For this reason, we will go with all the evidence available, before the courts to punish those responsible for these events.

To the above it is added that on February 6 of the current year in the village of Puerto Guamo in the municipality of Montecristo in the department of Bolívar, at 11 o'clock at night, Kevin Andrés Lugo Jaramillo, who was known as, Julián, was murdered. Morales, member of the FARC; apparently by guerrillas from the Guillermo Ariza Front of the National Liberation Army, ELN.

At the same time we express our solidarity to your family, friends and friends, we demand that the National Government make effective the guarantees for the political exercise of the Revolutionary Alternative Force of the Common; on an equal footing with the other parties and movements participating in the ongoing electoral contest.

We also express our voice of solidarity with the parties and candidates that have suffered some type of obstruction or threat in the development of the campaign, which we reject vehemently. Colombia can not become an electorally failed state, because of the enemies of peace.

For the time being, we have decided to suspend campaign activities, until we have enough guarantees.

We call on all parties and political movements, without exception, to pronounce themselves rejecting this type of provocation and we invite them to meet at a summit to agree on rules of fair play, for the current electoral campaign, where arguments, ideas and the proposals, over verbal aggression and physical violence.

We call all our militancy, friends and supporters not to get carried away by the provocations, to keep calm and concentrate on the development of internal meetings that allow us to strengthen the programmatic proposals that we are presenting for the country's consideration.

To the guarantors of the Peace Agreement, to the Second Mission of the United Nations, and to the entire international community, we ask for your support so that the political reincorporation of those who until recently were uprooted can be fulfilled, because of the intolerance and exclusion that has characterized the Colombian political system.

To the whole nation, the reiteration of our commitment to the consolidation of peace with social justice, full democracy and sovereignty.



National Political Council

Alternative Revolutionary Common Force

FARC

http://www.farc-ep.co/comunicado/hemos- ... entes.html

OK then, now what? Cause ya know the ruling class just gonna snicker. Youse guys have put yourselves in a bad place. Perhaps continuing the fight was untenable, for several reasons I might imagine. Still, the course of action which brought us to this point has been nothing less than suicidal.
How could you be so naive? Or our Cuban friends, for that matter? How could they not see the weakness in this plan?
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Post by blindpig » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:15 pm

Bulletproof vest saved from death to social leader of Patriotic March

Blu Radio / Criminal bands / Photo: Reference AFP.

This despite the fact that a man shot him several times.

By: Digital Writing BLU Radio

On the night of this Wednesday, Germán Espinel, a member of the political movement Patriotic March, suffered an attack that nearly ended his life.

According to the first versions, the man was approached by a motorized man who shot him several times in Ciudad Bolívar, south of Bogotá, in the area known as 'Las Antenas'.

The bulletproof vest received the impacts and managed to survive this attack.

The authorities stated that it is the second attack suffered by Espinel. With this background, they investigate the aggression and look for those responsible.

This is the official statement of the political movement with which Germán Espinel belongs:



The Association of Agroecological and Mining Brotherhoods of Guamocó, AHERAMIGUA, denounces that in the night of today, February 14, in the Alameda neighborhood of the town of Ciudad Bolívar in Bogotá, at around 10:00 pm, two armed men They were mobilizing on a motorcycle. Pulsar was given two pistol or revolver shots by compañero Germán Espinel when he was going to buy breakfast, less than a block from his residence.

The comrade, who at that time wore the bulletproof vest that had been assigned to him by the National Protection Unit, was first shot in the chest and when he tried to run, he received another one in the back, later one of the assassins shouted at him "there he has toad".

Germán is in charge of the communication area of ​​the Aheramigua and supports interlocution and advocacy work in the area of ​​Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. In addition, he had previously been the victim of illegal surveillance and intimidation during the month of April 2016 in the municipality of Santa Rosa , Bolívar, when he was accompanying the teammates of the organization.

We demand that the local and national governments carry out the relevant measures that provide guarantees and effectiveness of Human Rights, the Right to Life, personal and psychological integrity, work, free mobility, and access to justice of the members of Aheramigua.

Also to the public prosecutor's office, ombudsman's office, attorney's office and the pertinent authorities, to investigate the facts denounced here and to proceed with the development of the corresponding actions against the perpetrators.

We ask the international organizations in charge of protecting Human Rights to intervene with urgency and demand immediate solutions to the Colombian State regarding the serious humanitarian situation that Human Rights Defenders face.

Likewise, to the National and International community and to the organizations that defend Human Rights the accompaniment in the work of the members of the association and that they make a pronouncement in front of the situation.

We hold the Colombian State responsible for the guarantee and protection of human rights, the Bogota City Hall as a territorial entity that must ensure the protection of Human Rights of social leaders and the community in general and national and local authorities of any situation that can be presented after the promulgation of this denunciation, and of the respective legal actions that are undertaken.

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Post by blindpig » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:23 pm

Monument with weapons of the Farc will be in the center of Bogotá
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14 Feb 2018 - 7:18 PM
-Redacción Paz
This was confirmed by the Minister of Culture, Mariana Garcés. The proposal was raised by the Bogota artist Doris Salcedo.


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In the peace agreement, the Government and the FARC agreed that, after the ex-guerrilla handed over their weapons, they would be used to build three monuments . Both parties agreed that the monuments will be located in New York (in front of the UN headquarters), in Havana (which was the site of the dialogues) and in Colombia.

The Minister of Culture, Mariana Garcés, confirmed that the monument that will be made in Colombia will be in the center of the capital. He also said that more than a sculpture, it will be a "creation center" that would work for 52 years , the approximate time that the conflict with the demobilized FARC lasted, and where artists can come to do their works.

"In Bogotá it will be in the center , basically a proposal that has been working with the artist Doris Salcedo , she is the person who has worked the most for the victims who has a very significant work around the issues of violence and what we want to have It is his mark in this process, "Minister Garcés told the media. He also explained that what is expected is that it serve as a space for reflection on the armed conflict.

On the monument that will be in Havana, Garcés said he is waiting for his Cuban counterpart to report the exact place where he will be . As for the New York, he said that the call is now being prepared to become a reality. Read here: Recommendations for the monument to be made with the weapons of the Farc

A symposium organized by the Externado Universidade in September made it possible to collect 29 recommendations that were submitted to the follow-up committee to the final peace agreement.

Among these recommendations, it is noted, first of all, that victims should continue to occupy the central place even in these cultural manifestations, a centrality that the final agreement with the Farc granted them. The importance of linking and making visible the tensions between rural and urban within these representations is also remembered.

In general, the final recommendations provide an important contribution to the relationship between law and art . Symbolic reparation, a notion born in the law, ceases to be seen as a mere object of commemoration and becomes an important process where artists, community, victims and those who caused the damage can not only understand a tragic event, but reach reconciliation through understanding and questioning about the past, the present and what you want to build.

Recommendation number 14, for example, states that the monument "must respond to an aesthetic criterion that functions as a vector of sense fixation ". This, as it was well spoken throughout several papers during the day, means that more than an object placed in a public space, the monument must be a meeting place, a process, a constant relation of the sense that it acquires and it is built in a community.

While it is true that symbolically it is intended to make a single monument in Colombian territory, several speakers agreed that instead of talking about "the" monument, it would be better to talk about "the" monuments ".

The colloquium served to recommend, among other things, that the monument be made "in the place where the events occurred, public places, and academics, both rural and urban: parks, streets, universities, schools and schools."

That is why even one of the recommendations proposes to make "poles of peace": plates, trees and metal chairs , with names, stories, facts, figures, etc.

The recommendations also supported the idea that it should be a participatory process in which academic voices were taken into account, but above all those of the victims, and that the places where the violence occurred were considered.



* Editor's note: This article was edited. A paragraph was deleted mentioning a forum held by the Universidad del Externado in which the monuments were discussed. In the first version of the article it was said that the decision of Minister Garcés corresponded to the recommendations made in the forum, however, the 29 recommendations delivered in a Colloquium at the Externado University in September allow to see other reflections on how, what, who and where should I do, be or be said monument.

https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/p ... ulo-739226

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Here's an idea, the monument can be used as a headstone for those former FARC fighters, union, social and environmental activists assassinated since said arms were laid down.
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Post by blindpig » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:47 pm

USA in Colombia: Tale of never ending
Written by Arnaldo Musa

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The president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos and the Secretary of State of the United States, Rex Tillerson

The talk of these days in the networks of imperial disinformation is to consider normal the invasion of Venezuela, the main objective of his plan to revive the hegemonic Monroe Doctrine


As if they were few, the US military continues to arrive in Colombia, where they already have their seat in seven nominally Colombian bases that endilgado a treaty in 2009, granted by the ultra-rightist president, Alvaro Uribe, of which Juan Manuel Santos, current president, outside his Minister of Defense.


The talk of these days in the networks of imperial misinformation is to consider normal invasion of Venezuela, the main objective of his plan to revive the hegemonic Monroe Doctrine, which gives free rein to US interventions, in this case to achieve control of the subcontinent.

Rumors based on certainties range from a Colombian self-aggression on the border, to an invasion by land with all kinds of elements, including mercenaries and paramilitary terrorists, which is the same.

Everything is being preceded by the government's virtual failure to comply with the peace agreement it achieved with the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, whose members, after laying down their arms, are being murdered, along with hundreds of social activists, of rights human and union, mostly peasants, in addition to some aborigines.

What is really true is that, as in Afghanistan, the United States committed itself to combating terrorism and drug trafficking, but in both cases such scourges have been increasing, as have the revenues derived from it, in which US magnates they carry the lion's share, without ever being arrested or subject to suspicion, even collaborating with the arrest and extradition of some cartel leaders who are annoying.

Everything is in accordance with the designs of the recent and much discussed trip of the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who in his journey through countries with closer (or genuflexos) regimes to the United States, sought virtual support in the deposition of the government of Nicolás Mature.

It is symptomatic that after concluding his trip, the opposition negotiating in the Dominican Republic with the Maduro government refused to sign a commitment to reach the longed-for peace and renounce violence -signified by Caracas- and added its complicity with the groups more violent, sanctifying sabotages to economic centers and the intensification of economic warfare.

In this context, the explosions that occurred during the Carnival of the city of Oruro, Bolivia, whose government is in solidarity with the Venezuelan government and maintains a consistent anti-imperialist attitude, were included.

In the meantime, the garrisons of the bases used by the United States in Colombia have been reinforced: Malambo, Atlántico; Palanquero, in the Middle Magdalena; Apiay, in the Meta; the navals of Cartagena and the Pacific; and now, the training center of Tolemaida and the Army of Larandia, in Caquetá.

Bogotá has tried to explain why it agreed to the United States. will tread the national territory, pondering some relationships that he described as successful, speech that Uribe exhibited and that now repeats:

"It is in this context of respect for the self-determination of peoples that they are inviolable; of respect for international agreements, of global aggressions such as terrorism and drug trafficking, that Colombia seeks to strengthen a respectful and modern cooperation with the people and the Government of the United States; where only terrorists and drug traffickers should fear. We are convinced that as long as we are successful in this noble struggle in Colombia, against this universal scourge, it would contribute positively to regional tranquility. "

But in 2018 the drug trade is more vigorous, the exportation of drugs has risen to unsuspected numbers, terrorism is respected, the army not only does nothing to obstruct the paramilitaries, but protects them when they invade abandoned territory. FARC guerrillas and assassinate peasants and indigenous people and their leaders.

For now, Venezuela stands firm in expectation of a possible blow that could arise on the border with Colombia, while the people have united to fight on the electoral front, against the recalcitrant opposition and the sabotages that threaten their quality of life. life and life itself.

It seems a nightmare, but everything is real and, unfortunately, this "story" is not over and the worst may be about to begin.

http://cubasi.cu/cubasi-noticias-cuba-m ... nca-acabar

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I think it reasonable to speculate that FARC gave up the armed struggle in the face of unconditional opposition from the US. Nonetheless, the manner in which this is being done is proving fatal for the fighters and all progressive actors in Columbia. I dunno what else might have been done but this ain't working and anyone but an idealist could have seen it coming.
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Post by blindpig » Fri Feb 23, 2018 8:57 pm

Colombia: Supermarket Lootings Spark Clashes in Southern Bogota

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Colombian police and soldiers guard a supermarket allegedly linked to FARC in Bogota, Colombia, after it was sacked by looters. | Photo: Reuters

Published 22 February 2018

The riots started after the government alleged that certain popular stores, such as SuperCundi and MerkAndrea, had ties with the FARC.
Clashes between Colombian police and protesters were reported late Wednesday after a series of riots and supermarket lootings erupted in southern Bogota.

Members of the Anti-Riots Mobile Squad (ESMAD) confronted dozens of demonstators, especially in the Santa Librada neighborhood.

Looting was reported in the provinces of Tolima, Quindio, Cundinamarca and Boyaca, as well as several neighborhoods in southern Bogota.

Police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. Heavily armed police and soldiers are now protecting the looted stores with tanks.

The riots in Cundinamarca started after the government alleged that certain popular stores, such as SuperCundi and MerkAndrea, had ties with the former guerrilla group turned political party Revolutionary Alternative Forces of the Commons (FARC).

About 16 supermarkets were damaged during the riots. Looting has since extended to other establishments, prompting authorities to suggest the acts are pure vandalism rather than being carried out by a politically motivated organization.

When the Colombian government and the FARC signed the peace accords in 2016, the former insurgents agreed to declare all of their assets.

On Monday, a Colombian prosecutor said he would confiscate 60 supermarkets, houses, livestock and commercial companies valued at US$227.8 million that the FARC had failed to declare.

The FARC has denied the allegations, calling them "fake news": part of a campaign designed to discredit the fledgling political party.

The mayor of Melgar said he was forced to take security measures in response to the riots, including a ban on alcohol, closing access routes and prohibiting two people from riding the same motorcycle. He also banned the carrying of firearms and placed a 9 p.m. curfew on minors.

Authorities in Cundinamarca declared a curfew in the Facatativa and Fusafasuga neighborhoods after local riots injured 13 police officers and ended in 70 arrests.

The curfews will remain in place until Friday, with the possibility of extending until Sunday.

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somethin' fishy goin' on 'round here.....gonna be watching this
"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."

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