Eyewitness Colombia
Colombian Exile Politician to Speak in U.S.
In a speaking tour organized by the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, Professor Daza-Cotes will travel to the U.S. to talk about fellow professor and political prisoner Ricardo Palmera. She will speak about U.S. intervention in Colombia and her own journey, as Colombian military death squads tortured and murdered those around her, from liberal politics to more radical views. Ms. Daza-Cotes was forced into exile in Sweden around the same time Ricardo Palmera decided to join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
SDS Member and CAN Activist Speaks at SOA Protest
Colombia: getting beyond the stereotype of the narco-trafficker
Both presidents Clinton and Bush have given the third highest amount of military aid in the world to the right-wing Colombian government in the name of “fighting the war on drugs.” In reality, the aid the U.S. sends is spent on a counterinsurgency war against the Colombian people. Along with other local and national activists, I went to Colombia this past summer to investigate the reality of the “war on drugs.”
Colombia Journey: Report from Scott Nicolsen
"Alejandro Uribe was not a guerrilla! He was a leader of the miners and peasants, and he was murdered by the army!" shouted hundreds of people as they marched through the streets of Santa Rosa (in the Southern Bolívar region) on October 9.
Colombia Journey: Report from Scott Nicolsen
I visited Samuel Morales in the maximum security wing of the Modelo prison in Bogotá on September 23. Samuel committed the crime of being a teacher and the president of the Unified Workers Federation in the state of Arauca.
