They were tiny white seeds, as rough and grainy as a handful of sand, and Esmeralda Solarte knew that she had seen them before. It was June 2000, just outside of Quito, Ecuador, and the Colombian farmer was attending an international seminar on  agricultural innovations introduced by farmers like herself,... » read this article

 Aida Quilcue is the leader of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC), and one of the key figures behind the Social and Communitarian Minga process in Colombia. In December 2008 her husband, Edwin, was killed in an attack by the Colombian army. Seemingly the intended victim of the attack was... » read this article

Comically deranged Colombian President Alvaro Uribe just released his government's brand new official stats on how many leftist guerilla fighters his military has "neutralized" in recent years, and the numbers have prompted a couple of...questions. According to the BBC: "About 114,000 members of the warring factions were said to have... » read this article

While the people of Colombia continue to bravely resist overwhelming repression, government forces and U.S.-funded military and paramilitary groups have escalated the terror against them in recent weeks. Attacks, resulting in death and grave injuries, have been made on trade unionists and Indigenous peoples. Sugar cane cutters fight for their... » read this article

Excerpt From Colombia, the indigenous groups in the Cauca department have made an international SOS to call attention on their plight. They accuse the armed forces of opening fire with live ammunition during their marches along the main highways in the country, killing and injuring indigenous protesters. The government keeps... » read this article

As right-wing politicians on three continents basked in the reflected glory of an ostensibly brilliant July 2 rescue of hostages held by Colombia's FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia) guerrillas, doubts have surfaced as to the real character of this operation. The freeing of Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian citizen and... » read this article

July 10, 2008 It was a perfectly executed rescue mission and they pulled it off without a hitch. A small group of Colombian military-intelligence agents, posing as aid workers on a humanitarian mission, touched-down in the heart of rebel territory, gathered up Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages, and whisked... » read this article

July 8 2008     The "perfect rescue" of Ingrid Betancourt is starting to show its imperfections which paradoxically could make it more credible. To have the ex FARC hostage in the hands of the Uribe government and the Colombian military was in itself a complete success. However, it was just... » read this article

Update 3: The Colombian military is claiming now that the "rescue" of the 15 prisoners today was whistle-clean. They claim that the FARC "turned the prisoners over to us". The claim is that FARC thought the Colombian soldiers were were members of FARC. The Colombian military arrived in a in a helicopter,... » read this article

Recent remarks by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on the civil war in Colombia and Ecuador's decision not to join the Alternativa Bolivariana de las Americas (ALBA) solidarity based cooperation initiative shows progressive leaders are taking stock on Latin American integration. Ecuador, ALBA and the FARC by Toni Solo   Recent... » read this article

Introduction to Video: This video (scroll down) depicts the realities of U.S. intervention in Colombia under the rubric, Plan Colombia. The original version of Plan Colombia was first presented by President Andres Pastrana at the Tequendama Hotel in Bogota on June 8, 1998. In his speech, Pastrana presented Plan Colombia... » read this article

Pedro Antonio Marin, better know as Manuel Marulanda and ‘Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot)’, was the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP).  He was without a doubt the greatest revolutionary peasant leader in the history of the Americas.  Over a period of 60 years he organized peasant... » read this article

One news report and 2 brief commentaries below from two of our fav websites ... Inca Kola and Bo-Rev First, the news from Reuters Ecuador asks OAS to probe Colombian rebel files June 1, 2008 MEDELLIN, Colombia, June 1 (Reuters) - Ecuador on Sunday asked the Organization of American States to investigate... » read this article

"It was also the case with our martyred leader Abbas el Moussawi. They killed him and they thought that the Resistance would collapse because of it… Instead it grew, drawing an increasingly steeper chart… and a few years later, Israel left defeated and humiliated in 2000 because of his blood, and... » read this article

 The Continuing Laptop Saga …  Interpol finally reported on the files in the laptops allegedly captured by the Colombian army on March 1st after a FARC encampment on Ecuadorian territory was bombed and then invaded by the Colombians violating Ecuador’s sovereignty.  Interpol Secretary General, Ronald Noble, answered technical questions about... » read this article

That's So Alvaro! Remember all of those Colombian paramilitary leaders who were exposing the connections between Alvaro Uribe’s administration and right-wing terrorist groups? They were all extradited to the U.S. in the middle of the night, where they will be tried for drug trafficking...and nothing else. “Claudia Lopez, an independent... » read this article

Since the violation of Ecuador�s sovereignty by the Colombian military, relations between Venezuela and Colombia have been fraught to say the least. The �magical laptops� allegedly captured by Colombian forces have become a fountain of highly debatable intelligence information - all aimed at proving that Venezuela and President Chavez are somehow... » read this article

Editor's Note: In the context of the current US wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and their destabilizing covert operations in many other countries, it is laughable that Washington and the Colombian government are accusing President Hugo Chávez of interference with Colombia. The current meat in their grinder... » read this article

Editor's Comment: The three articles below show the true colors of Washington's favorite Latin American government. For years, under the pretext of their "war on drugs", Washington has supported Colombia's Uribe government with massive funding and military aid to crush the revolutionary FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) who have... » read this article

Advanced technology has proven itself to be stronger than Superman by withstanding the devastating bombardment of FARC commander Raul Reyes' camp in the Ecuadorian jungle. This laptop computer managed to survive unscathed from the inferno, saving all the exquisite information, which places it amongst the most sought after in the... » read this article