The following article by Josh Sykes is from Fight Back! News:
Asheville NC – In a move to censor the voices of solidarity and human rights, Facebook shut down the “Free Ricardo Palmera!” page, claiming it violates their terms of use.
The following article by Josh Sykes is from Fight Back! News:
Asheville NC – In a move to censor the voices of solidarity and human rights, Facebook shut down the “Free Ricardo Palmera!” page, claiming it violates their terms of use.
Posted in Anti-War / Anti-Intervention, Colombia, Ricardo Palmera
Tagged censorship, Chiquita, death squads, Facebook, FARC-EP, human rights, Josh Sykes, Mark Zuckerberg, National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, political prisoners, repression, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army, Simon Trinidad, Tom Burke
The following is from CounterPunch. For more on the Chiquita paramilitary case, see the documentary, Chiquita: Between Life and Law, as well as the material collected on the website of the Colombia Action Network:
Super Criminals
Chiquita Lauded for Human Rights Abuses
By DAN KOVALIK
In its most recent edition, the magazine, “Super Lawyers,” gave its cover story to the General Counsel of Chiquita Brands International, praising him for navigating the complex and difficult waters of Colombia. What it failed to mention is the trail of tears in Latin America left behind by Chiquita (formerly United Fruit, the architect of the 1954 coup in Guatemala as well as the 1928 massacre of striking banana workers in Cienaga, Colombia memorialized in One Hundred Years of Solitude). The following letter, by union labor lawyer, Dan Kovalik highlights the contradictions in the applause given to Chiquita. We note that, just after this letter was written, Chiquita also received (quite ironically) a “sustainability award” for its business abroad.
An excellent documentary about U.S. banana giant, Chiquita Banana (formerly the notorious United Fruit Company) financing and arming Colombian death squads. For more about this visit the Colombia Action Network website.
Posted in Anti-War / Anti-Intervention, Colombia, Movies
Tagged Chiquita, Colombia, Colombia Action Network, death squads, documentary, paramilitarism, video
The following statement by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), the largest Marxist-Leninist organization in Colombia, is being reposted here from the website Resistencia Colombia:
Written by: SECRETARIAT OF THE CENTRAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
From the Colombian Mountains
May, 2009
“The political circumstances are suitable to improve the Armed Movement and the Bolivarian Movement.” Manuel Marulanda Vélez
The FARC’s soul as a flag waving in the wind is mentioned in this Manuel’s saying. 45 years ago we began the fight to look for peace, justice and dignity for Colombia in the Marquetalia heights which is the people’s resistance mountain. Since then we are the armed response of the poor and the righteous people against various types of state violence.
Posted in Colombia, Marxism-Leninism
Tagged Alvaro Uribe, Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, Bolivarianismo, Chiquita, Colombia, Drummond, Efraín Guzmán, FARC-EP, Iván Ríos, Jacobo Arenas, Jorge Noguera, Manuel Marulanda, New Colombia, Plan Colombia, Raul Reyes, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army