Apparently, the corporate media doesn't consider it to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries who are linked to the Alvaro Uribe regime. To date, Associated Press, Reuters and their contracted media outlets remain silent on this latest news. If it had taken place... » read this article

In 1921, socialist writer Scott Nearing wrote that the United States "has guaranteed to her by all the leading capitalist powers practically an exclusive privilege for the exploitation of the Western Hemisphere" as part of the post World War I settling of international affairs. With military cooperation treaties dating back... » read this article

(2 reports below) New death squads have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups - and they are committing the same acts of terrorism against trade unionists as their predecessors, a prominent US-based rights organisation has warned. Under pressure from human rights groups and Washington, Bogota has overseen the... » read this article

Interview with Eva Golinger Information Clearing House  ... » read this article

Venezuela's and Colombia's ambassadors to the United States tell their sides of an increasingly tense story. Nearly two decades after the global arms race of the Cold War ended, many Latin America watchers today are worried about a new military standoff: between Colombia and Venezuela. As before, Washington is integral... » read this article

Reflections by comrade Fidel THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION AND PEACE I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and... » read this article

An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department... » read this article

The U.S. State Department has just wrapped up a deal with Colombia’s President Uribe that will lead to a massive buildup of U.S. military personnel across seven bases in Colombia. Currently, there are a reported 250 U.S. military operatives in this nation. With the new agreement, this number will jump... » read this article

September 3, 2009 The New Great Game is not only focused on the face-off between the United States and strategic competitors Russia and China - with Pipelineistan as a defining element. The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa... » read this article

Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez rejected on Friday the presence of foreign military bases in South America, and urged to resolve the differences among regional countries at the negotiation table.   Addressing the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) summit in this Argentinean city, the statesman recalled that successive Uruguayan governments... » read this article

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced today that he is to propose a continental referendum on the installation of U.S. military bases in the region at the upcoming Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Summit. “It is the people who should decide as to whether uniformed foreigners should be in South... » read this article

With the highly anticipated summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) three days away, the debate over the U.S.’s increased presence on Colombian military bases continues. Venezuela vowed to defend its natural resources, Colombia accused Venezuela of expansionism, and Noam Chomsky analyzed the conflict during a visit to... » read this article

The imminent agreement between the United States and Colombia over the use of seven military bases by the Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) forms part of the major dispute over commonly held resources throughout the South American region. First, a few recent updates:     * Venezuela has become the number one country... » read this article

Civil conflict, high-profile kidnappings, and entire cities run by drug cartels; these are just some of the images of violence and terror that steered tourists away from Colombia for over thirty years. But that began to change in 2003 when the current government of President Alvaro Uribe launched a campaign... » read this article

The waning influence of the US in Latin America in the last decade can be attributed primarily to the influence and regional foreign policy of President Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution. Left leaning leaders were elected in all countries, even in Central America, with the notable exceptions of Colombia,... » read this article

Update below regarding Swedish arms sales On Monday, Colombians reported a thick, acrid smoke in the skies above Bogota and the pollutants have been analysed in a Caracas laboratory. On the condition of anonymity, sources in Caracas told us that gas samples were secretly captured by a Venezuelan aircraft that flew low... » read this article

To reach one of the Colombian indigenous tribes that overlaps with Venezuela, you first need to get to the town of Honduras, in the municipality of Convención in the Norte de Santander department. It is accessible by a precarious, one-lane dirt road hugging the eastern spine of the Andes Mountains;... » read this article

The Obama administration’s proposed 2010 aid package for Colombia appears to be sailing through the Democrat-controlled Congress with little opposition and few amendments. As a result, the administration is poised to achieve a shift in U.S. policy in Colombia that will see an even greater portion of the aid under... » read this article

US Military: After Iraq, Latin America On June 29 US President Barack Obama hosted his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe at the White House and weeks later it was announced that the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to five air and naval bases in Colombia, the largest recipient of American military... » read this article

Honduran Foreign Minister (constitutional) Patricia Rodas has announced that President Manuel Zelaya is currently on route to Honduras to reunite with the people in resistance to the coup regime, now on its third week. On Tuesday, President Zelaya issued an "ultimatum" to the coup regime, warning that if they do... » read this article