Analysis
McCain's visit to Colombia
The Colombia Action Network is issuing the following call for protests at John McCain's campaign events and at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 in St. Paul, MN. McCain arrived in Colombia on Tuesday and is promoting his close relationship to death squad leader Colombian President Uribe as a campaign issue. FARC Not a Terrorist Group
Amid the jubilant press reaction to the freeing of Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, Hugo Chavez has made the surprising annoucement, almost immediately ratified by the Venezuelan congress, that the FARC-EP is a legitimate belligerent force, and not a terrorist group.
Death Squads in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia: A leading paramilitary warlord has started to name military men who helped him carry out savage massacres in Colombia's civil war — but so far the soldiers implicated are dead or imprisoned.
Colombia: getting beyond the stereotype of the narco-trafficker
Both presidents Clinton and Bush have given the third highest amount of military aid in the world to the right-wing Colombian government in the name of “fighting the war on drugs.” In reality, the aid the U.S. sends is spent on a counterinsurgency war against the Colombian people. Along with other local and national activists, I went to Colombia this past summer to investigate the reality of the “war on drugs.”
