By Mike Power Daily Mail | October 2010 These plaques mark the graves of anonymous victims of Colombia’s civil war. Human-rights groups maintain that government death squads carried out the killings – and that what’s ...
” … These lawmakers, prosecutors say, were an important component of a paramilitary movement that had two main objectives: erode support for Marxist rebels, and smuggle cocaine into the United States. The movement’s gunmen liquidated ...
” … The major electronic and print media CNN, FOX News, Washington Post, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the once liberal Financial Times (FT) hailed Santos election, as a great victory ...
” … Two U.S.-based corporations have been accused of having ties with anti-union ‘death squads’ – Drummond Coal and Chiquita Brands International (the original United Fruit). The Organization of American States revealed that 3,000 automatic ...
“… Nazi ‘angel of death’ Josef Mengele used scopolamine in interrogations as a kind of truth serum. The CIA administered doses of the drug during its controversial behavioral-engineering experiments in the 1960s, according to John ...
Colombia: Peace in the Shadow of the Death Squads By Daniel Kovalik CounterPunch, Aug. 25, 2016 As the Colombian government and left-wing FARC rebels near the signing of a comprehensive peace accord, and though they ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — The brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been arrested on allegations he was involved in murders and forced disappearances while helping form a far-right death squad in the 1990s. Santiago ...
“… The historian mentioned one 2004 case in the central Colombian town of Melgar where 53 underage girls allegedly were sexually abused by nearby stationed military contractors ‘who moreover filmed [the abuse] and sold the ...
Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s company, Colombian authorities are investigating. Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, ...
“… As the Colombian military engaged in the killings, the United States unconditionally supported it with intelligence, covert C.I.A. action and billions of dollars in aid. …” NOV. 12, 2014 (José Miguel Vivanco is Americas director ...
“… Nearly 6,000 civilians have been killed by the Colombian military and then falsely passed off as guerillas in order to justify the continued counterinsurgency program in Colombia and the U.S. aid that funds it. ...
The Rev Oscar Albeiro Ortiz was convicted in absentia last year for organising ruthless militia made up of former paramilitaries January 31, 2014 Colombian officials have announced the capture of a fugitive Catholic priest who ...
“… the U.S. is aligning with known terrorists and drug dealers in Colombia in the name of fighting terrorism and drugs. …” Why Are We Only Learning of This Now? The U.S. Assassination Program in Colombia ...
Also see: “Eric Holder – Death Squad/Torture Lawyer“ MIAMI — Faced with potentially billions of dollars in legal liability, Chiquita Brands International is asking a federal appeals court to block lawsuits filed against it in ...
June 13, 2013 Colombia’s defense ministry is alarmed about an exodus of top soldiers to the United Arab Emirates to join a highly paid U.S.-led mercenary force organized by Erik Prince, billionaire founder of the ...
The national ombudsman’s office and human rights leaders across Colombia requested that an autopsy be done on a victims rights activist who allegedly committed suicide on Saturday after recieving numerous death threats. Angelica Bello, herself ...
By Brandon Barrett Colombia Reports, March 26, 2012 Israeli mercenary Yair Klein claimed his arrival in Colombia in the 1980’s to train paramilitary groups was undertaken with the approval of Colombian and Israeli authorities. The ...
Marguerite Cawley Colombia Reports | April 27, 2011 The Colombian Supreme Court has begun preliminary investigations into a further case against former Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, regarding ties to extradited drug trafficker Juan Carlos Sierra, ...
By Tom Peters Colombia Reports | May 11, 2011 Accused: Jose Miguel Narvaez A former deputy director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS ordered the assassination of a leftist politician by paramilitaries, the Prosecutor General’s Office said ...
Parapoliticians may have to compensate victims By Marguerite Cawley Colombia Reports | March 22, 2011 A Colombian Congressional committee on victim reparation is considering making politicians with proven ties to paramilitary death squads partly responsible ...
” … The families are seeking damages from Alabama-based coal company Drummond for allegedly supporting right-wing death squads. … “ By Pete Yost AP | March 31, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration urged a ...
By Adriaan Alsema Colombia Reports | 17 December 2010 . Colombia announces it will ask Israel to extradite Yair Klein, a mercenary convicted by a Colombian court for training death squads from the Medellin cartel ...
Also see: “Death Squad Leader Wins Colombian Election” “… Honduran congressman Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo hired him after the former president — Chávez acolyte Manuel Zelaya — was forced out by the military. Rendón guided Lobo ...
Reporters without Borders Press release 27 May 2010 Inteligente, published by Colombia’s Administrative Department for National Security (DAS) Three years after an on-the-spot investigation into paramilitaries (“Paramilitary ‘black eagles’ poised to swoop down on press”), a Reporters Without ...
By FRANK BAJAK (AP) | May 24, 2010 BOGOTA, Colombia — A retired police major said Monday that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s younger brother commanded a right-wing death squad in the early 1990s from the ...
Skeletons in the Corporate Closet: Coke By Justin Rohrlich Minyanville | Apr 06, 2010 There’s almost no corner of the world in which one can’t get their hands on a Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company (KO) ...
By Roger Bybee In These Times | February 18, 2010 Colombian army soldiers patrol a banana plantation in Santa Marta, Colombia, in December 2000. At the time, there were worries of violence over new banana ...
NYT/September 19, 2009 BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Amid a scandal involving illegal spying on government critics, Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency will be dismantled and a new agency will be set up to focus on intelligence ...
(Reposted) The Holder-Chiquita Connection http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07172009.html … Given Chiquita’s underhanded record in Central America and Colombia it’s not a surprise that the company later sought to ally itself with COHEP in Honduras. In addition to lobbying ...
therealnews.com Hylton: Rest of South America has reason to be alarmed by future US military presence on Colombian bases With the hemisphere fixated on the coup d’etat in Honduras, the Colombian military announced it would ...
By Sherwood Ross http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=74 (Thanks to Victor Moore for the lead) Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army’s “School of The Americas” (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused ...
www.courthousenews.comMay 28, 2009 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (CN) – Drummond Co. paid a Colombian death squad millions of dollars to murder and terrorize union workers at its coal mine, hundreds of people claim in Federal Court. They ...
By KARINA BROWN LOS ANGELES (CN) – Dole Food Co. funded a right-wing death squad in Colombia that murdered peasants and union leaders and drove them off the land so that Dole could plant bananas, ...
Also see: “The Value of Alvaro Uribe’s Medal of Freedom” US financed death squadsby Constanza Vieira Colombia: Secret Documents Show US Aware of Army Killings in 1990s (IPS) – Declassified U.S. documents show that the ...
” …human rights groups were examining a steady increase in the reports of civilian killings since 2002, when commanders intensified a counterinsurgency financed in no small part by more than $500 million a year in ...
