teleSUR | June 21, 2016 Any accord reached by the negotiators in Cuba will need to be confirmed by a popular consultation. The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are set to sign a final peace agreement on July 20th, which could put an end to more than 50 years of […]
This week we catch up on the multi-layered insurrection taking place in France, where the state is struggling to get a handle on things, amidst regular protests, strikes, fuel shortages, and the general drunken chaos of soccer hooliganism.
For the musical break, we’ve got Skalpel (of Première Ligne), with Le Rap, La Soul, La Vie…
By T.J. Coles | Axis of Logic | May 25, 2016 Since the 1980s, when Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service started operating in Colombia, special forces on all sides have been killing rival drug gangs and even counter-narcotics police units. This amounts to a proxy drug-smuggling network, which Britain has aided […]
By Ming Chun Tang | The Americas Blog | May 26, 2016 As was reported following the assassination of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition of her memoirs, “Hard Choices.” Her three-page account of […]
Press TV – May 23, 2016 The British government is providing military training to the majority of nations it has blacklisted for human rights violations, a new report reveals. In a report published on Sunday, the Independent revealed that 16 of the 30 countries on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s “human rights priority” watchlist […]
By Dan Kovalik | CounterPunch | May 20, 2016 The latest thematic report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concerning Colombia makes for shocking though quite important reading. In short, it details human rights abuses on a massive scale, and lays the blame for these abuses chiefly upon the right-wing paramilitaries aligned with […]
By Jonathan Marshall | Consortium News | May 19, 2016 On June 29, 2009, one day after Honduran military leaders ousted their country’s democratically elected president, President Obama publicly branded the coup illegal and denounced it as “a terrible precedent.” Yet even as he spoke, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was ensuring that U.S. aid […]
Exclusive: Despite a grisly human rights record and alleged ties to drug traffickers, Colombia’s ex-President Uribe has been a favorite of Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill, helping Clinton associates turn hefty profits, reports Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall On…Read more →
There is not enough shelter to house all of the displaced families. | Photo: Contagio Radio teleSUR – May 13, 2016 A national bombing campaign in the territories of the Indigenous Embera Wounaan ethnic group has forced them to flee their homes and take shelter elsewhere. More than 400 Indigenous people from the ethnic group […]
Governor Bolaños Lasso (Photo credit Diaro del Cauca) teleSUR | May 4, 2016 An army sergeant and a corporal have been arrested for the murder of Indigenous governor Bolaños Lasso in southwest Colombia, local media reported Tuesday. The Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed the arrest of the two low-ranking army commanders who are part of the […]
