Analysis

En medio de la jubilante reacción de la prensa por la liberación de la abogada Clara Rojas y la congresista Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, el presidente de Venezuela Hugo Rafael Chavez hizo un sorpresivo e inesperado anuncio que fue ratificado inmediatamente por el Congreso venezolano, de que las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaria de Colombia- Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), es una fuerza legítima y beligerante y no una organización terrorista.

BOGOTA, Colombia: A leading paramilitary warlord has started to name military men who helped him carry out savage massacres in Colombia's civil war — but so far the soldiers implicated are dead or imprisoned.

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.”