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Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike

As US Laments Human Rights in Venezuela, US-Allied Colombia Descends into Drug-fueled Humanitarian Crisis

The dichotomy between Washington’s relationship with Venezuela and Colombia is yet another clear example that the public justifications for the U.S.’s Latin America policy are little more than window dressing for the U.S.-backed expansion of neo-fascist governments throughout Latin America.

February 8th, 2019
Whitney Webb
February 8th, 2019
By Whitney Webb
Colombia | Violence

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (Analysis) -- Several troubling situations are currently playing out across Colombia, yet the country’s continuing downward spiral into drug-fueled and politically-motivated violence has caused little concern in Washington, offering yet another clear indication that the U.S.’ current posturing on Venezuela is hardly motivated by

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Trumps Promises New Sanctions, Threatens Regime Change in Venezuela

Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, President Trump said the Maduro government could be “toppled very quickly.”

September 27th, 2018
Ricardo Vaz
September 27th, 2018
By Ricardo Vaz
Donald Trump UN Venezuela

Pays de Gex, France – US President Donald Trump took aim at Venezuela at the United Nations Tuesday, hitting Caracas with a fresh round of sanctions and openly talking about the military overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro. Trump’s speech at the 73rd UN General Assembly (UNGA) dedicated special attention to Venezuela, with the US President

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Red Cross: Colombian Government Must Find 83,000 Disappeared Persons

The ICRC asked the Colombian government to implement more effective measures to prevent further disappearances.

August 30th, 2018
teleSUR
August 30th, 2018
By teleSUR
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

The ICRC asked the Colombian government to implement more effective measures to prevent further disappearances. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged the new Colombian government to search for the over 83,000 people who disappeared in the country, in commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared, which takes

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

UNASUR has been awash in crisis ever since April, when Colombia along with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru announced the temporary suspension of their respective memberships in the organization.

August 29th, 2018
Elliott Gabriel
August 29th, 2018
By Elliott Gabriel
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

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

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Colombia’s New Right-Wing President Raises Risk of US-Led War With Venezuela

As the U.S. seeks to topple the elected government of Venezuela, few doubt that Colombia’s President Duque and the regional elites standing behind him will prove extremely loyal to their traditional masters in Washington.

August 7th, 2018
Elliott Gabriel
August 7th, 2018
By Elliott Gabriel
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – As Colombia’s new president, Ivan Duque, took office Tuesday, widespread speculation swirled across the region that the right-wing former senator and 42-year-old protégé of former President Alvaro Uribe will usher in a new stage of confrontation between Bogota and the besieged government of neighboring Venezuela. Bilateral

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Can Colombia’s Peace Process Survive the Coming Hard-Right Regime of Ivan Duque?

Ivan Duque’s stated “obsession” with security measures and alignment with hard-right politicians, as well as the continued hype surrounding the bogeyman of a “Refounded FARC,” offer ominous signs to the marginalized rural poor and national minorities of Colombia.

July 19th, 2018
Elliott Gabriel
July 19th, 2018
By Elliott Gabriel
Colombia's President Ivan Duque, right, speaks to the media as his vice-president Martha Lucia Ramirez stands next to him at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, June 21, 2018. Fernando Vergara | AP

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Leaked reports from the Colombian Armed Forces have alleged that scattered groups of dissident former members of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) plan to hold a guerilla conference and formally unite as a large new guerilla force in the country’s lawless border regions and rural

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