Colombia
Colombia: Was the United States involved in the murder of FARC-EP leaders?
By James J. Brittain[i]
US/Colombia hands off Venezuela and Ecuador! Act now to stop war in Latin America
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
March 5, 2008 -- What only a few days ago seemed like a remote prospect has suddenly become a real possibility. The Colombian military’s brutal massacre of 21 (at last count) guerrillas with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -– Peoples Army (FARC-EP), including Raul Reyes, the FARC's chief negotiator and spokesperson, in Ecuador on March 1 marks a dramatic leap in the United States' plan to potentially trigger off an armed confrontation between Colombia and Venezuela.
These events should be of major concern for all supporters of the Venezuelan revolution, and anti-war and peace activists the world over.
Repression in Peru intensifies
By Hugo Blanco
March 4, 2008 -- Not long ago repression in Peru was more a matter of laws than actions. Now, however, APRA's legislation (APRA is President Alan García's party), with basic support from the ultra-rightist Unidad Nacional party, and from the party of Fujimori, who is now being tried for massive crimes, and with no consequent parliamentary opposition, is being used to launch a full assault against the people.
Oppose the US war plans for Colombia and Venezuela
Interview with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
