COLOMBIAN REBELS OFFER PEACE TALKS (tags)
Colombia's largest guerrilla organisation FARC says that it is willing to negotiate peace with new Colombian president Alvaro Uribe if he cracks down on the paramilitary death squads and withdraw government forces from two southern departments.
New Colombian government slams door on peace (tags)
When Anne Patterson, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, called on the new government of ultra-rightist President Alvaro Uribe Velez to summon the reserves to fight against leftist guerrilla forces, Uribe’s minister of defense, Martha Lucia Ramirez, did just that on the following day.
IS COLOMBIA THE NEXT VIETNAM? An essay by former Green Baret Stan Goff (tags)
Imperialism is the enemy of us all, and the FARC is on the front lines against imperialism. It's very simple to an old soldier. Remember Vietnam!
OIL EMERGENCY IN COLOMBIA (tags)
Workers shut down the country's main oil refinery in Barrancabermeja after right-wing gunmen kill yet another trade union leader.
Colombia Voters Reject U.S. War (tags)
When Colombian voters went to the polls yesterday to elect a new Congress, they massively rejected the candidates of the traditional ruling two-party system of the Conservative and Liberal parties.
Colombian President Breaks Off Peace Talks With Communist Rebels (tags)
BOGOTA, Colombia - President Andres Pastrana broke off the peace process with Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People's Army (FARC-EP) Wednesday night, hours after the guerrillas hijacked a jetliner and kidnapped a corrupt senator complicit in his government's war against the poor.
Columbia gets fleet of U.S. Black Hawk Helicopters (tags)
The United States is pouring more than $1 billion in military aid into Columbia... the biggest U.S. military buildup in Latin America since El Salvador in the 1980s
(Colombia) From "War on Drugs" to "War on Terrorism". Same War on the People. (tags)
Juan Forero, New York Times writer on the Colombian Civil War, continues to fabricate Washington's propaganda directed against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). For how long will Washington go along with this phoney "War on Drugs?" A "War on Terrorism" (War on all Resistance) is a blessing in disguise for the far right.
The US continues to meddle in Colombia's internal affairs (tags)
BOGOTA, Colombia -- FARC leader warned the United States on Monday of meddling in his country's internal affairs by sending ``hundreds of military advisers and mercenaries.''