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Colombia
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Editor , BoRev
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
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
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
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Toni Solo , Scoop
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
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Editor , BoRev
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
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Editorial , Cipcol.org
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
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