Colombia

Maduro: ‘Bolton Planning for My Assassination, With Help from Bogota’

Undoubtedly, there is a policy of regime change for Venezuela which is being acted on by Washington’s neoconservative cabal – which has taken over large parts of Donald Trump’s foreign policy portfolio. In fact, Trump has openly stated that in addition to the current economic warfare which the US is waging against the South American country, that he would also considered the use of military intervention against Venezuela.

Colombian police arrest 6 Israelis over running child sex network

Press TV – December 10, 2018 Colombian police have detained six Israelis accused of running a sex ring that exploited underage girls and forced them to have sex with Israeli tourists in the Latin American country. Following a two-year investigation, Colombian security police managed to break up “an Israeli mafia that exploited and used girls, […]

Fascism on the March

Latin America is re-converting into Washington’s backyard and as a sideline is returning to fascist rule, similar but worse than the sixties, seventies, and eighties, which stood under the spell of the CIA-led Operation or Plan Condor. Many call the current right-wing trend Operation Condor II which is probably as close to the truth as can be. It is all Washington / CIA fabricated, just with more rigor and more sophistication than Plan Condor of 40 and 50 years ago.

A Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela? A Case Study into NGO Mercy Corps

By Nina Cross | Venezuelanalysis | October 31, 2018 Following a sharp increase in Venezuelan migration since 2015, the corporate mainstream media, alongside the governments of the US, EU and Colombia, is aggressively pushing the narrative of a “humanitarian crisis,” at the same time that Western NGOs flock to set up shop along the Colombian […]

Security, Safety, Security! Dictatorship by Democracy

The other day, checking in at a European airport for an international flight, within about an hour it took to deposit my luggage, going through airport security, the metal detectors, body screening machines, the automatic passport reading procedure, waiting at the gate and finally boarding, I have heard or read the words security and safety, honestly speaking, more than a hundred times. There are now countless primitive videos – in fact, insultingly primitive videos – that show you the precise procedures to follow to keep you safe and secure.

72nd FARC Member Murdered in Colombia Since Peace Agreement

Colombians protest against the murder of social leaders in Bogota. | Photo: EFE teleSUR | September 27, 2018 The systematic targeting of social leaders and former FARC guerrilla fighters has become one of the main obstacles to peace in Colombia. In Colombia, two former combatants of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were […]

With Formal Withdrawal from UNASUR, Colombia’s Duque Undercuts LatAm Resistance to Washington

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Colombia’s new right-wing President Ivan Duque has announced that he will begin the formal process of ending his country’s participation in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), making good on his campaign promise to remove Colombia from a regional body he sees as acting in league with the elected government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.