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Reagan-Era Criminal slanders FMLN

January 16, 2014 CISPES 0

Source: CISPES On Monday, January 3, Elliot Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, published an editorial in the Washington Post that brashly proclaimed that a Farabundo Martí National […]

Southwest Antioquia: Microcosm of Social Conflict in Colombia’s New Gold Rush

January 14, 2014 James Rodríguez 0

Twenty kilometers west, in the municipality of Ciudad Bolivar, locals have carried out protest marches and painted numerous anti-mining murals throughout the municipality. Diego Tobón, president of the Friends of the Arboleda Environmental Corporation (Corporación Ambiental Amigos de la Arboleda, COAMAR, in Spanish), states: “Ciudad Bolivar is a farming municipality and [the government] wants to impose a mining culture that nobody here wants.”

 

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The Permanent People’s Tribunal and the Counterinsurgency War in Chiapas

Being close to Miguel Alemán, operational base of the paramilitaries of Desarrollo, Paz y Justicia, the small Chol Maya community of Susuclumil (Municipality of Tila) had been chosen to host the pre-hearing of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (TPP, as per its Spanish acronym), in a chapter that is focused on the counterinsurgency war unleashed in Chiapas after the 1994 Zapatista uprising.

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