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- Monday, Nov 09, 2009
ZNet Article Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and m... -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
ZNet Article Last fall, Colombia's social and popular movements captured the world's attention. -
- Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
ZNet Article Senator Paul Coverdell was no mere commentator. Before he died, he designed the new hemispheric strategy founded on satisfying US petroleum needs. -
- Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
ZNet Article I spent a good part of the other week watching the performances of Liberals and Conservatives in the Canadian House of Commons as they debated Bill C-23, implementing legislation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA). -
- Sunday, Jul 26, 2009
ZNet Article Far from embodying any dramatic changes, President Obama’s foreign policy has thus far tended toward continuity or worse in most major areas. -
- Friday, Jun 12, 2009
ZNet Article So, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe Velez came to Canada and spoke to Canadian politicians in order to try to resurrect the stalled CCFTA. -
- Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009
ZNet Article The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down). -
- Friday, May 08, 2009
ZNet Article "The fundamental reasons for the Colombian conflict, of which the Venezuelan people have historically been victims, reside exclusively in Colombia and must be resolved by the Colombians"... -
- Saturday, May 02, 2009
ZNet Article The rapid fall of industrial production and sales in the first months of 2009 has cracked the media shield behind which the Colombian government attempted to hide the reality of economic recession in Colombia. -
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009
ZNet Article The annulment of the Rural Development Statute by the Constitutional Court opens a new chapter in the confrontation between the government of Colombia, presided over by Alvaro Uribe, and the indigenous peoples of this Andean country. -
- Friday, Mar 06, 2009
ZNet Article One of Colombia's major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year ago (March 3/08)... -
- Friday, Dec 19, 2008
ZNet Article A comparison of US press coverage of Venezuela and Colombia over the past decade, focusing on two sets of parallel political actions taken by the Venezuelan and Colombian governments. -
- Saturday, Oct 04, 2008
ZNet Article You know that I’ve come to speak about the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia. This is an important theme currently in our countries; it’s a topic of much debate. -
- Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008
ZNet Article [Translator's introduction: this statement is a response to an August 29/08 article in El Tiempo, Colombia's national newspaper, which claims that an email to Hector Mondragon was found on the laptop of FARC guerrilla leader Raul Reyes, who was as... -
- Saturday, Aug 30, 2008
ZNet Article So now the computer of an assassinated guerrilla leader, a computer that survived a missile attack and 48 hours of tampering by Colombian authorities according to INTERPOL, yields email evidence "linking" the decimated guerrillas to a peace activi... -
- Thursday, Aug 21, 2008
ZNet Article Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th... -
- Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008
ZNet Article In the first quarter of 2008, a strong political shift has emerged, which allows the local and global rightwing and multinational corporations to regain their positions and boost their offensives. This shift is not limited to Colombia, which repre... -
- Saturday, Jul 12, 2008
ZNet Article It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free. She was the Green Party candidate running for president of Colombia against Alvaro Uribe in 2002 when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) just days after appealing t... -
- Friday, Jul 04, 2008
Commentary Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. -
- Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008
ZNet Article Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. This is a major event in Colombian politics a... -
- Friday, Jun 13, 2008
ZNet Article On June 7 2008, less than one year after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the beginning of bilateral free trade talks with Colombia, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade announced the conclusion of neg... -
- Monday, May 19, 2008
ZNet Article On March 1, the Colombian military (with US Special Forces help) illegally attacked a FARC-EP rebel camp inside Ecuador. US satellite telephone tracking located the site. Washington signed off on the mission. Over 20 people were killed, including ... -
- Friday, Apr 25, 2008
Commentary Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political ... -
- Tuesday, Apr 01, 2008
ZNet Article Carly Simon's theme song from the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" says it all about The New York Times' agitprop skill - "Nobody Does It Better" nor have others in the media been at it longer. Most important is The Times influence and ... -
- Friday, Mar 21, 2008
ZNet Article Colombia Goldfields, the company’s website announces, is “rediscovering the land of the golden mountain” through two major projects in the region; the Marmato Development Project and the Caramanta Exploration Project, located approximately seven k... -
- Friday, Mar 14, 2008
ZNet Article Manizales, Colombia – Uncertainty prevails in the cobbled streets of Marmato – a small mining town of some 8,000 souls clinging to the side of El Burro, a mountain in the Colombian Andes. For more than 500 years, 'subsistence' gold mining formed a... -
- Tuesday, Mar 11, 2008
ZNet Article Call it another salvo in Bush v. Chavez with Ecuador's Raphael Correa as a secondary target and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe as a proxy aggressor. The Ecuadorean incursion was no ordinary cross-border raid. It was a made in Washington affair that escal... -
- Thursday, Mar 06, 2008
ZNet Article The Clinton and Obama forces have asked us to consider who we want answering the phone at the White House at 3 AM. There is little need to speculate. We have a lot of evidence about how they will respond. ZNet Article Latin American governments and regional organizations declared support for Ecuadorian national sovereignty and regional unity, and widely condemned the assault by Colombian armed forces on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuad... -
- Wednesday, Mar 05, 2008
ZNet Article To understand the current crisis in Northern South America, it is important to recognize what most books and classes on Colombia state from the outset: the geopolitical importance of Colombia to the interests of the United States in the region. - All Newest Content
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