Stop Plan Colombia
McCain's visit to Colombia
The Colombia Action Network is issuing the following call for protests at John McCain's campaign events and at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 in St. Paul, MN. McCain arrived in Colombia on Tuesday and is promoting his close relationship to death squad leader Colombian President Uribe as a campaign issue. Colombia Free Trade Agreement slammed
Meredith Aby, a leader of the Colombia Action Network slammed the Bush administration's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia stating, "We should oppose the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia because it is an attempt by Bush to promote corporate interests at the expense of the working people of Colombia. Colombia is already the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. The U.S. has spent billions of dollars supporting the repressive Colombian government which sponsors death squads. These death squads kill and attack trade union organizers and anyone else who questions Colombian President Uribe's right-wing agenda. This free trade deal would be like adding fuel to a fire."
Ecuador sues Colombia over anti-drug spraying
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador said on Monday it had sued Colombia in international court over drug crop fumigation along its frontier in reaction to a Colombian raid that killed a rebel leader across the border earlier this month.
Colombia solidarity leaders condemn Reyes killing
By staff, Fight Back News, March 2008
http://fightbacknews.org/2008/03/colombiasolidarity.htm
Several leaders of the U.S. movement in solidarity with the Colombian people condemned the March 1 killing of Raúl Reyes, the main spokesperson for the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Reyes was murdered in Ecuador by Colombian troops with U.S. assistance.
Was the U.S. Involved in Killing the FARC-EP Leaders?
Written by James Brittain
Thursday, 13 March 2008
While virtually every country in Central and South America, including the Caribbean, has waged in on the debate of the Colombian state conducting an illegal military campaign within Ecuadorian sovereign territory, resulting in the deaths of various high ranking officials in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, FARC-EP), the United States have remained virtually silent. Such silence from the US is quite perplexing considering the administrations of Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have wielded a twenty-two year old assault on this insurgency movement.
