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Colombia and FARC : Six Long Decades of Fighting for Peace
Andres Pastrana, President of Colombia from 1998-2002, in peace negotiations with FARC leader Manuel Marulanda Velez. Photo from Latin American Studies.A Promise of Peace:Colombia, the guerrillas, and the paracos By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / February 20, 2010 … Continue reading
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Military Buildup in Colombia : A Rumor of War
Colombian army soldiers shown during training exercises. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.A rumor of war:Shadows of Vietnam in ColombiaBy Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2010 CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia — I borrowed the title of this post … Continue reading
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Licensed Murder in Colombia : The Macabre Ruse of ‘False Positives’
Carmenza Gómez Romero of Soacha, Colombia, shows a picture of her son Victor, one of two sons she has lost in “false positive” operations in the Ocaña area. Photo from El Espectador.Grotesque staged civilian murders:Colombia’s ‘false positive’ operations By Marion … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, Government Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Human Rights, Latin America, Marion Delgado, South America, Venezuela
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Colombia : Pablo Emilio Moncayo: A Pawn in Uribe’s Game
Pablo Emilio Moncayo in 1996, 19 years old.Colombia’s Uribe: Playing politics with Pablo Somewhere in the Amazon jungle tonight, Pablo sleeps chained to a tree stump, his release prevented by the government he served all these long years in order … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, FARC, Latin America, Marion Delgado, South America
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FARC in Colombia : A History of Armed Resistance
“Por la nueva Colombia, la patria grande y socialismo.”(“For the new Colombia, the greater fatherland, and socialism.”) — FARC motto. Photo from HubPages. Armed struggle for land reform and justice:Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia By Marion Delgado / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, FARC, Latin America, Marion Delgado, Resistance Movements, Revolutionary Movements, South America
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Coltan in Venezuela : Chavez Putting Chips on War?
Above, image from Intimidad Violada. Below, capacitor made with coltan.Valuable electronics ore mixes with oilTo produce rumbles of war with Colombia By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / December 26, 2009 WARS. There are so many of them that … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, Congo, Electronics, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Marion Delgado, Natural Resources, South America, Venezuela
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Colombia : Rebels Accused in High Profile Political Assassination
Above, Governor Luis Francisco Cuellar of Caquetá state in Colombia, who was kidnapped Monday and killed by alleged rebels. Below, relatives and friends carry coffin containing his body as people wave white flags during his funeral service in Florencia, southwestern … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, Latin America, Marion Delgado, Revolutionary Movements, South America
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Fight for the Amazon : The Planet’s at Stake
A police helicopter takes away indigenous protesters who have been arrested in the Peruvian rainforest. It returns later and is used to fire tear gas at protesters. Photo by Thomas Quirynen and Marijke Deleu / Independent, U.K.A fight for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Carbon Emissions, Direct Action, Environment, Global Warming, Indigenous People, Peru, pollution, Social Protest, South America
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Eduardo Galeano’s ‘Mirrors’
From Hugo Chavez to Barack Obama and to you, too… Eduardo Galeano’s Mirrors:A reflection on Uruguay’s preeminent author By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2009 He doesn’t have a full beard like Che, doesn’t smoke big … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Historians, Latin America, Literature, South America, Uruguay
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Bolivian Crisis in the New South America
Supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales shout slogans against Pando’s governor Leopoldo Fernadez outside a justice court in La Paz September 18, 2008. Photo by David Mercado / Reuters.The Machine Gun and the Meeting TableBy Benjamin Dangl / September 18, … Continue reading
