Colombia’s naïve attempts to legalize state terrorism
The attempts of the government of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to legalize terrorism could get him in trouble with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Duque won’t have to worry about…
The attempts of the government of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to legalize terrorism could get him in trouble with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Duque won’t have to worry about…
Colombia’s puppet President Ivan Duque will obstruct next year’s elections for the same reason he is obstructing peace; to protect criminal interests. Duque may have fooled me for a while…
After accusing students, indigenous people and even Colombia’s middle class of terrorism, Defense Minister Diego Molano will now confront ELN guerrillas. This may be a bit of a problem, because…
American citizens and politicians need to know their political divisions are eerily similar to the ones that led to the war Colombia is struggling to get out of. I’m not…
President Ivan Duque called on Colombia not to be “carried away by those always preaching class struggle,” making it even more evident how backwards the guy is. I have never…
The report of a commission advising US Congress on counternarcotics efforts in the Americas was so superficial not even Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization could have taken offense. In fact,…
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) depriving Colombia’s FARC victims of their right to justice through fraud requires a judicial response to prevent repetition. I don’t know and don’t understand why…
Far-right President Ivan Duque may be repressing Colombia’s peace movement, but popular support for the peace process and the country’s war victims is as alive as ever. When former President…
There’s a term for for the mass killing of Colombia’s social leaders, ethnic minorities, women and opposition activists: “necropolitics.” The term was coined by Cameroonian scholar Achile Mbembe in 1983…