By Eileen O’Grady | CEPR Americas Blog | March 27, 2015 Plan Colombia has been on the lips of many U.S. officials lately, who tout the 15-year-old plan as a model to stabilize the country and promote human rights and transparency. This week, two new reports alleged sexual exploitation by U.S. security forces in Colombia, […]
By Adam Johnson | FAIR | March 26, 2015 An 800-page independent report commissioned by the US-friendly Colombian government and the radical left rebel group FARC found that US military soldiers and contractors had sexually abused at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007 and, in all cases, the rapists were never punished–either […]
RT | March 25, 2015 Fifty-four Colombian girls were sexually abused by US troops and military contractors between 2003 and 2007, claims a new report by the country’s reconciliation commission. None of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted because US forces had immunity. The claims are part of an 800-page report by an independent commission established […]
U.S. support for the Government of Colombia (GOC) is designed to attack every element of the drug trade and to assist the GOC to re-establish government control and the rule of law in areas threatened by drug-related violence.
– Fact Sheet, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, US Department of State, Washington, DC, August 12, 2002
teleSUR | March 10, 2015 The Colombian military will stop bombing FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) camps for one month, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday. The President emphasized that this is a temporary measure to try to de-escalate the more than 50 year conflict in the country, however he did not rule out […]
Press TV – March 8, 2015 The Colombian government and the FARC rebels have reached a deal to remove the country’s land mines and discarded explosives, which have killed thousands of people in rural areas in the past 25 years. The government and rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia “have agreed to ask […]
teleSUR | January 27, 2015 “2014 ended with threats and 2015 as well started with threats,” said representative in Colombia for Reporters Without Borders, Fabiola León. She insists the situation is worrying as over the course of around 20 days, 5 written threats have been delivered targeting 150 people, who include not only journalists but […]
File photo shows militants belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Press TV – January 14, 2015 The FARC rebel group says it has killed eight army soldiers in a “defensive response” to the recent attacks carried out by the Colombian army. “As a result of the defensive response, we lament that eight […]
Weekly News Update on the Americas | December 29, 2014 According to a secret study released by the Wikileaks group on Dec. 18, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) considers the killing of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) second-in-command Raúl Reyes by Colombian forces in Ecuadorian territory on Mar. 1, 2008 [see Update #937] […]
teleSUR | December 20, 2014 The United Nations has welcomed the FARC’s (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) declaration of an indefinite unilateral ceasefire in Colombia, and offered to help oversea it – if both parties involved agree. “The United Nations has the competency,” Hochschild told reporters Thursday. He also stated that the U.N. has the […]
