"President orders patrols in Bogota" by VIVIAN SEQUERA | Associated Press, August 31, 2013
BOGOTA — President Juan Manuel Santos ordered troops onto the Colombian capital’s streets Friday after rioting in which at least two people died, and small farmers said they were lifting road blockades elsewhere after 11 days of protests.
And I get one s**tty Saturday brief.
Bogota was peaceful on Friday, with no disturbances reported as Santos ordered troops to reinforce police on the streets. No major military mobilization was noted.
The violence broke out Thursday afternoon after some 30,000 people, many of them university students, marched in support of the farmers, who have been blocking highways and staging protests over a variety of issues.
Santos opened talks with the farmers Tuesday and has promised to address their grievances, including erasing import tariffs on fertilizer. The farmers say cheap imports of potatoes, onions, and milk are impoverishing them.
It's called GLOBALI$ATION of the ECONOMY, and it's a GOOD THING!
On Friday, Santos announced that he had asked government negotiators to return from talks with the farmers in Boyaca state, though he did not say why.
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Globe never got back to me on these so they must be unapproved protests.
"Colombia, rebels set up peace talks; No provision for cease-fire, haven for FARC" by Frank Bajack and Paul Haven |
Associated Press, September 05, 2012
BOGOTA — Colombia and its main leftist rebel group said Tuesday that
they have signed an accord to launch peace talks next month aimed at
ending a stubborn, half-century-old conflict that has claimed tens of
thousands of lives....
Commander Timoleon Jimenez, 53, speaking from what appeared to be a jungle setting with a
poster of the FARC’s late founder Manuel Marulanda behind him, acknowledged the withering pressure from Colombia’s US-backed military [and] issued an
angry tirade against his country’s military, calling its members
‘‘bloody-toothed vampires’’ who helped powerful multinationals ‘‘sack
the country’s riches.’’
Aaaah, f**k FARC!
Jimenez excoriated the government for not ceding territory or
agreeing to a cease-fire but said the rebels agreed to talk peace
because the government agreed to discuss issues vital for the rebels
including land restitution and rural development.
The FARC has recently been stepping up hit-and-run attacks but has
also continued to suffer, especially in air raids by planes fitted with
US avionics and targeting systems. On the eve of the announcement, the
military said at least seven guerrillas were killed in a raid early
Monday.
The FARC was born Marxist in 1964, but its rhetoric is more rooted
in its peasant origins: Colombia has one of the world’s widest gulfs
between rich and poor and its second-largest internally displaced
population after Sudan.
Turns out the Marxist and the Communists were funded by Wall Street (history does repeat itself; Russia is once again standing in the way of the bankers) and controlled by Jews.
Related: Secret Facts - Soviet & Jews
Ever read about Kaganovich and Yagoda in your schulbooks, Amurkn?? Plenty of pages about this man though.
The FARC numbers about 9,000 fighters, about half its strength a
decade ago, when a military buildup started with the help of more than
$8 billion in US aid and led to record desertions....
I just wanted you American taxpayers to see that.
President Juan Manuel Santos, a social progressive who dealt the FARC major blows as defense
minister from 2006 to 2009, said another important item on the agenda is drug trafficking,
sensitive because it’s believed to be the FARC’s main funding source.
It's also great for money-laundering BANKS!
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"Colombia holds first peace talks with rebels in decade; Norway hosts first round, Cuba will host second" by Vivian Sequera |
Associated Press, October 19, 2012
HURDAL, Norway — Colombia’s first peace talks in a decade were
inaugurated half a world away on Thursday with a demonstration of just
how differently the two sides view the nearly half-century-old conflict.
The Oslo talks were brief, symbolic, largely perfunctory, and held at
a secret venue. They lasted seven hours and were followed by word that
substantive talks will begin Nov. 15 in Havana, Cuba, and will first
tackle ‘‘comprehensive agrarian development.’’
Never saw another word in my Globe, and I am SICK of $YMBOLI$M!
The government’s lead negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, sought to set
a businesslike, cordial tone in brief remarks at a joint news
conference in Oslo. He said the government seeks ‘‘mutual dignified
treatment’’ in the talks and doesn’t expect the sides to see eye-to-eye
ideologically.
His counterpart, Ivan Marquez, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC, had come to Oslo ‘‘with an olive branch.’’
I suppose I am happy when people are not being killed, so....
Then he began railing against Colombia’s ‘‘corrupt oligarchy,’’ its
alleged masters in Washington, ‘‘state-sponsored terrorism,’’ and the
‘‘vampires’’ of transnational oil and mining
that the rebels say are ravaging the nation.
‘‘We want to denounce the crime of capitalism and neoliberalism,’’
Marquez said during a 35-minute discourse that denounced oil and coal
companies and individual Colombian politicians by name, including a
cousin of President Juan Manuel Santos and a relative of one of the
government negotiators.
Members of the government team, separated from the FARC negotiators
by Norwegian and Cuban diplomats who have acted as facilitators, looked
bored and slightly annoyed.
Like me?
Land ownership issues are at the heart of Colombia’s complex
conflict, which is fueled by cocaine trafficking and aggravated by
far-right militias that have colluded with a military widely questioned
for human right abuses. Colombia’s most fertile land has been largely
concentrated in the hands of cattle ranchers and drug traffickers....
Where is LAND (and what is under it) not the ROOT SOURCE of CONFLICT -- despite the ENDLESS ARRAY of OTHER ISSUES like religion and the rest that are put forward by my theft-enabling Zionist War Media?
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Also see:
Colombian rebels announce cease-fire
Colombia bombs rebel camps, 6 bodies recovered
I guess that just about Thais things up.
