Biden Backs Revival of His Brainchild: Plan Colombia 2.0 Set to Begin Next Month

Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto’s glyphosate across the country, a plan Biden once fought hard with his Republican colleagues to enact.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Joe Biden Plan Colombia Feature photo

BOGATA, COLOMBIA -- In an effort supposedly aimed at reducing cocaine production, Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto’s glyphosate across the country. Defense Minister Diego Molano confirmed that the highly contentious practice of fumigation — shelved since 2015 — will resume in April. "The constitutional

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US Intel Thinks You’re Stupid: ODNI Report Blames Russia, Ignores Colombian Election Interference

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a new report alleging wide-ranging Russian interference in the 2020 election, contradicting November statements that there was no election interference while outright ignoring documented interference from top US ally Colombia.

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By Dan Cohen
2020 election meddling Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- Russiagate is back! That’s right. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) says Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei meddled in the 2020 U.S. election. But not only they: Lebanese Hezbollah, Cuba and Venezuela did it too. I know what you’re thinking: Where is the evidence? Well, the ODNI

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Fingers Point to US-Backed Gov’t in Colombia’s Ninetieth Massacre of the Year

“The Trump administration waged a full scale campaign to undermine Colombia’s peace accords. We must not waste our time hoping the Biden administration might reverse course, we must demand it.” — James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Colombia Feature photo

It is the festive season in Colombia, but not everyone is celebrating. Sunday brought news of the ninetieth massacre of the year. Five people were found dead in Bolívar Department in the north of the country, among them former leftist guerilla Rosa Amalia Mendoza and her infant child. Meanwhile, just hours earlier in the southwestern department of

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Protests Against Greed and Inequality Are Spreading Like Wildfire Through Latin America

Historic protests are taking place across Latin America as people take to the streets to voice their displeasure at the IMF, government corruption, and the spread of fascism.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Latin America Protests Feature photo

With attention fixed on this week’s events in Bolivia, you would be excused for not realizing that much of the rest of the region has for weeks also been ablaze in the flames of protest. In Costa Rica, the neoliberal coalition government of Carlos Alverado attempted to force through a $1.75 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Decades Later, America’s Meddling in Colombia is Still Costing Lives

From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Colombia US violence Feature

On a warm Tuesday morning earlier this month in Llano Verde, an eastern suburb of the city of Cali, five Afro-Colombian children decided to leave their homes to take advantage of the fine weather to spend some time outside. They would never return. Only a few hours later, they were found dead; their bodies burned, cut to pieces with machetes and

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As Media Amplifies Unrest in Venezuela and Beyond, Colombians Quietly Revolt

Despite protests of historic proportions fueled by anger over corruption and a brutal right-wing crackdown, the unrest in Colombia has garnered remarkably little international media attention compared to Venezuela.

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Whitney Webb
By Alan Macleod
And Whitney Webb
Colombia Protests Feature photo

Many of the massive anti-neoliberal protest movements that exploded across the globe last year have pressed on into 2020, especially those that rose up throughout Latin America. Many of those demonstrations -- clearly newsworthy due to their enormous size, composition, and motives -- were and continue to be ignored by prominent English language

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