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One of the most controversial leaders, Álvaro Uribe Velez is appearing before the Supreme Court of Colombia to be questioned in a case of witness manipulation and fraud. Uribe is currently implicated in over 270 legal cases which involve charges of illegal wiretapping, organized crime, selective assassinations, forced disappearances to name a few.
Since November 21, hundreds of thousands have been mobilizing across Colombia to reject President Iván Duque’s anti-people and neoliberal policies. Hundreds of thousands of Colombians peacefully mobilized across the country against Duque’s neoliberal package, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary (IMF) and the World Bank, and for life and peace. 
The rampant persecution and assasination of Indigenous people continues in Colombia. On October 29, four members of the Indigenous Guardia and an Indigenous authority were killed in an armed attack in the Tacueyó town of the Toribío municipality in the Cauca Department in Colombia. In addition, six other people were seriously injured. Cristina Bautista, leader of the Nasa Indigenous community, was one of the victims of the ambush in Cauca Department, Colombia, on October 29.
We went through the war, and anyone who experiences war never wants to do so again — so we made the decision to return to our territory after the displacements.
In 2016, a historic peace agreement was reached between the Government of Colombia and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC), with great hope of bringing an end to 52 years of armed conflict. The peace process was dealt a serious blow when several former commanders and now dissidents of the demobilized FARC announced their return to arms. 
The Likhts’amisyu are one of the 5 Wet’suwet’en Clan Groups. Since the last Ice Age we have governed ourselves on the ancestral territories without the influence of other Wet’suwet’en Clans or other Nations. For thousands of generations the protection and occupation of our lands have been central to how we derived our authority and sustained ourselves.
Family, television, school, church, the street, parks, shopping centres, public transportation, supermarkets: these are common sites where a type of model subject is inculcated, where people are trained to be, act, dream, and feel. In case this inculcation does not produce the desired results, prisons are always there to push the offending citizen back onto the straight and narrow path.
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