US propaganda newspaper attempts to mock the Colombian people's movement
Carlos Moija | 26.09.2001 07:10
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hmmm
26.09.2001 08:57
If you are miffed that that glaringly obvious obvious problem was ignored in favour of the "hey you hypocrite" stance, then get used to it. It is a point that seems to escape many seemingly intelligent people.
Communism cannot be pure be pure within a capitalist society... and if it showed any signs of threating to be it would be brutally crushed.
For journalistic balance you need the authour to have at least a fair grasp of both sides of the subject, most of the time they don't.
What do you expect from a chauvinistic regime???
Mustermann
e-mail: spam@spam.spam
Both As Bad AS Each Other
26.09.2001 10:06
Paul Edwards
not the best example but............
26.09.2001 11:11
juan here uses a successful exception of reinsertion to promote a possible peace agreement, which wouldn't threaten the existing system, that leaves the colombian people extremely impoverished and repressed.
any peace agreement would fail to address the social and economic causes of the ongoing civil war and benefit the colombian people, as such reforms threaten the wealth and power of the existing elite many of whom fill governments positions (for example a member of the Santos family, one of colombias most influential and affluent players, is the equivalent to chancellor)
the truth is the guerrillas who have disarmed and rejoined 'civil society' or formed political parties have been ruthlessly murdered by the state. examples which come to mind are; the EPL half of which were murdered despite an amnesty; and the union patriotica a political group representing the policies of the farc who had over 5000 members murdered in a decade including in its first election year all of its candidates . others have had there businesses destroy and constantly harassed by the army and paramilitary.
furthermore there has been absolutely no effort even slightly on the side of the government, to address the social in justices in colombia. 1.5% of the population still own the 80% of the arable land (despite being unilaterally part of all the guerilla groups demands, the highest unemployment figures in south America (despite the healthiest economy over the last decade), the absolute lack of a much needed infrastructure, adequate public health and education etc etc etc
more generally juan feroro avoids the issues; 1) of the institutionalised relationship between the colombian armed forces and the paramilitary death squads that collectively with each others support committ over 80% of human rights violations against mainly women and children.
2)the sustained US support and training of Human rights offenders in the school of americas(which has and is currently teaching torture and repression know as counter insurgency) and the cia and dea's links to carlos castano the recently retired head of the AUC (colombia's paramilitary army).
3) useful sources such as that of an ex-foreign minister who refered to the US born 'colombia doctrine' which promotes the 'extermination' of trade unionists, NGO members, peasant organisers, and anyone critical of the regime asumed to be 'communists'.
4)the strength of the farc and there broad support within colombia and the region, and the fervent anti-US sentiment of the Latin America after years of US economic slavery and exploitation in the name of democracy (which inspired plan colombian and the Andean initiative ie a militarisation of Latin America in order to repress subversion).
5)the true nature of US intervention beyond the flimsy excuse of a 'war on drugs', ie to consolidate their access to natural resources (colombia is rich in this respect) predominantly petroleum, that the presence of the farc and other progressive groups in colombia (trade unions etc) threaten. Colombia petroleum is especially important in the light of the progessive-patriotic governemnt of Chavez in Venezuela (that supplies America with 40% of its oil) who the US fear will limit their acess to and increase the price of oil(...again, Venezuela is the head of opec at the moment and Chavez headed the move towards cutting oil production last year and increasing the price of oil)
thank for reading...........a colombian enthusiast
Rowan Shingler
e-mail: rowanshingler@yahoo.com