The following is being reposted here from the website of the Colombia Action Network:
U.S. Military Aggression Against Venezuela Escalating
By Eva Golinger
The Chavez Code
Sunday, Dec 20, 2009
Caracas, 20 December – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez revealed today on his Sunday television and radio program, Aló Presidente, that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have illegally [...]
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December 21, 2009
U.S. Military Aggression Against Venezuela Escalating
December 17, 2009
FARC-EP War Report: January-June 2009
The following is from the website www.bolivarsomostodos.org
According to the war reports coming from Eastern Bloc, Southern Bloc and United-Western Command, in June 2009 during the confrontations between guerrilla and enemy forces and the guerrilla attacks against these forces, at least 83 soldiers and police officers were killed and 103 injured.
As a result enemy forces have [...]
December 17, 2009
FARC and ELN on the road to unity
The following article, outlining a joint FARC-ELN statement posted in Spanish on ANNCOL, is from the bourgoeis Latin American Herald Tribune, which, it should be noted, promotes anti-guerrilla misinformation and should be read with skepticism:
Colombia’s 2 Main Rebel Groups Announce Pact
BOGOTA – Colombia’s two largest guerrilla groups will join forces in the fight against the government of President [...]
December 16, 2009
Absurd Florida lawsuit against Colombian rebels
The following article by Mick Kelly is from Fight Back! News, the newspaper of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization:
Speaking with Fight Back! Dec. 15, a leader of the U.S.-based National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, Tom Burke, slammed a Nov. 12 lawsuit filed in Florida Middle District Court against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). [...]
December 13, 2009
FARC commander Alfonso Cano greets Continental Bolivarian Movement
The following is a rough English translation, done by Google Translate, of the original Spanish, “Movimiento Continental Bolivariano: una necesidad política de alcances estratégicos“, a letter sent by Alfonso Cano, Commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), the largest Marxist-Leninist organization in Colombia, to the Constituent Congress of the Continental [...]
November 5, 2009
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP
The following is a description of the exciting new book Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP by James J. Brittain to be released in February, 2010 by Pluto Press. Professor Brittain will be available to speak about the book:
Compared to other Latin American countries, minor socio-political analysis has been given to contemporary Colombia. [...]
September 24, 2009
Visit To Colombian Political Prisoner Liliany Obando
The following commentary by James Jordan is from Fight Back! News:
Bogotá, Colombia – Liliany Obando is powerful. She is one thousands of Colombian political prisoners. For a year now, I have known Liliany through letters. We finally met face-to-face on three occasions, during a delegation sponsored by the U.S.-based Campaign for Labor Rights and the Colombia [...]
September 24, 2009
Fidel Castro on U.S. Bases in Colombia: It is a Time for Mobilization, for Marching Together
The following is from Marxism-Leninism Today:
US Bases in Colombia: It is a Time for Mobilization, for Marching Together
Written by Fidel Castro Ruz
This reflection is not addressed to the governments, but to the fraternal peoples of Latin America.
Tomorrow, August 28, the UNASUR Summit will convene in Argentina and its significance cannot be overlooked.
There, an analysis [...]
September 23, 2009
Coup-Regime Responds with Repression as President Zelaya Returns to Honduras
The following video from the Real News explains how the situation is progressing in Honduras given the return of President Zelaya since the coup of 28 June.
September 8, 2009
Colombia: Eyewitness report from solidarity delegation
The following article is from Fight Back! News:
Colombia: Eyewitness report from solidarity delegation
By Angela Denio
In August, a delegation of U.S. students, trade unionists and anti-war activists traveled to Colombia to meet with leaders in the struggle there. The Colombian Action Network and the Campaign for Labor Rights, two grassroots organizations here in the United States [...]
August 31, 2009
Carlos Montes on the 39th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium
Carlos Montes is a veteran fighter in the Chicano Liberation movement. He was a founder of the Brown Berets and the Chicano Moratorium. Montes is currently active in the Southern California Immigration Coalition, the East L.A.-based Latinos against War and with CSO, which organizes parents in the East Los Angeles area to fight against the [...]











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