Colombia
One million Colombians marched in the capital city of Bogotá as well as
other cities and towns on April 9 to show their support of peace negotiations
between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples
Army (FARC-EP). Talks which began in Oslo, Norway, in 2012 are now continuing
in Havana, Cuba....
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In Colombia union organizers operate under the threat of violence, torture,
and even death. More union organizers are killed in Colombia than in any other
country in the world. Corporations like General Motors take advantage of the
anti-union climate....
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For almost 500 days, Asotrecol, the Association of Injured Workers and
Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores, has been fighting for justice.
Colmotores, the GM assembly plant in Bogotá, Colombia, is a house of
horrors....
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The eyes of the world were glued to their TV screens. TeleSUR and the BBC in Spanish transmitted live the almost three-hour-long press conference of the representatives of FARC-EP and the Colombian government on Oct. 18, at the end of the establishment of the Peace Negotiation table in Oslo, Norway....
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Colombians launched a new movement in April that may challenge the oligarchy’s rule there. La Marcha Patriótica [Patriotic March or PM] is an outgrowth of the diverse social movements in Colombia....
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The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke partnered with Occupy Atlanta, the International Action Center and other organizations to stage a two-prong action at the annual Coca-Cola stockholders’ meeting, held at the Cobb Galleria in suburban Atlanta on April 25....
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Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) was killed in combat on Nov. 4 by the
Colombian Army in that country’s southwest region of Cauca. For several
hours that day, dozens of helicopters and planes surrounded this rural area,
the home of peasant families, and then they started bombing, hitting the place
where the FARC leader was....
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The U.S. government’s façade that it is a champion of democracy
and respectful of other countries’ sovereignty has once again been torn
away by Washington’s recent treatment of two distinct governments in two
Latin American countries: Colombia and Ecuador....
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From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to
hear first hand from the Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.
and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America.
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The International Action Center has announced the formation of the Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee. The committee has already begun planning a number of events in solidarity with the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) of Honduras....
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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
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Hondurans continue the struggle in the streets. Defying criminal police and
military who repress, arrest and shoot tear and pepper gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition at them, the people have protested the military coup regime
every day for seven long weeks....
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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
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Violent and repressive tactics are being used against
thousands of Indigenous people who are participating in a national mobilization
to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis they face....
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Colombia made prime news around the world on July 2 like never before. We learned that former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt had been freed from a Marxist guerrilla group along with three U.S. Pentagon contractors -- Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell -- and 11 members of the Colombian army and police....
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With the theme "Sovereignty and Food Security: Food for Life," delegations from 15 countries met in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 7 to discuss and plan strategies to confront the serious hunger crisis that is affecting the
peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean....
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For the Office of the Attorney General (the "Fiscalia") it is clear that the action at San Jose de Apartado sought to impose fear and terror in the civilians of that community....
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March 2nd,The government of Alvaro Uribe murdered Comandante Raul Reyes of the FARC at dawn on March 1 in an operation conceived and
executed with U.S. support.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's defense minister first
announced this news in a triumphant official statement that greatly distorted the facts of the events so as to hide the criminal nature of the terrorist act....
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The International Action Center urges everyone to support the Colombian people at this critical moment. Over the past weekend, relations
between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador became very tense when the Colombian government with the complicity of the U.S. crossed illegally into Ecuador and invaded this neighboring country. The Colombian government rained many bombs and cowardly executed a group of insurgent forces from the FARC-EP, including Raul Reyes, Chancellor in charge of International Relations....
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n early January, in a unilateral move, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) released two women it had been holding. Its aim was to demonstrate it was serious about wanting to negotiate a humanitarian exchange of prisoners with the Colombian government....
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A federal judge here on Jan. 28 sentenced Ricardo Palmera, a peace negotiator for the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP), to 60 years in prison without parole....
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly announced on Jan. 9 that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had just sent him details of the location in their country where two women held by the FARC, Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, were to be released....
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With little fanfare, Colombia has become the third largest
recipient of U.S. military aid in the world—behind only Israel and Egypt.
U.S. Special Forces troops are already on the ground there, involved in combat with popular insurgencies. Yet Colombia is rarely mentioned in any of the major media in the United States. ...
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The anti-war movement in the United States and around the world needs a clear view of the Pentagon's "Plan Colombia" and its impact on this hemisphere. Now that information is available in a book from the International Action Center: "War in Colombia--Made in U.S.A."...
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