Since the end of April, Colombia’s streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry and tried to suffocate any advancement of the Havana ...
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting. As police and military forces in Colombia use violence to try to repress the ...
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN ...
Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football is either important ...
For nearly a decade now, a collection of former heads of state, high political figures, businessmen, and cultural figures have been working to reform drug policy at the national and international levels. Known as the Global ...
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw ...
Despite protests of historic proportions fueled by anger over corruption and a brutal right-wing crackdown, the unrest in Colombia has garnered remarkably little international media attention compared to Venezuela. (By: Whitney Webb & Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
“In Bolivia, if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security.” – Evo Morales It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on ...
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken ...
Organizations across the country have condemned the government of president Iván Duque for not providing security to social leaders. (By Tanya Wadhwa, Peoples Dispatch) Two weeks ago, four social leaders were assassinated in Colombia, taking ...
Illegal gold mining and the illicit activities that go hand in hand with every step of the process have cast a dark shadow over one territory in Colombia. In the territory of Colombia known as ...
“I am coming here again to denounce the plot that is being prepared from the White House to violate Venezuelan democracy, to assassinate me and to impose a dictatorial government in Venezuela.” (People’s Dispatch) Venezuelan ...
Despite having massive oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy is still stuck in a downfall. Since 2014, the economy of Venezuela has been in a free-fall. The once vibrant economy that was also once the largest in ...
The fight against global warming and climate change has never been deadlier according to a new report by Global Witness found activists defending the environment are being murdered in record numbers. At least 207 environmental ...
On Sunday, populist conservative politician Ivan Duque won Colombia’s run-off after securing 54 percent of the vote, beating his leftist contender and former Bogota mayor, Gustavo Petro. Petro earned 41.8 percent of the vote. The ...
Last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia saw former senator Ivan Duque, from Centro Democratico, win 39 percent of the vote, while ex-rebel-turned-politician Gustavo Petro took nearly 25 percent of the vote. Coming in third was ex-Medellin ...
Venezuela may become the next Syria: How mainstream media mistakenly writes about Colombia. The prolonged economic crisis in Venezuela is triggering citizens to leave their own country. Economists feared that the once oil-rich nation might ...
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