As we finished writing this article, three people were assassinated in the city of Saravena, making 67 official massacres in Colombia this year. This article is dedicated to the victims. A complex geopolitical region
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Anglo Gold and its Colombian Quebradona project *This article was recently published in Colombia in action written by the Colombian Support Network. You can also read the original version here : https://colombiasupport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CSN-Summer-2021-…
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In Bosa, the ancestral territory of the Muisca peoples, the National Popular Assembly was held with the participation of more than 2,000 in-person and virtual delegates from different regions of the country, in an autonomous and self-organized exercise.
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Original published on : https://pbicanada.org/2021/05/31/urgent-situation-happening-at-canadian-owned-gran-tierra-oil-field-in-putumayo-colombia/ An urgent situation appears to be developing at the Costayaco oil field in Putumayo, Colombia operated by Calgary-based Gran Tierra Energy.
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On May 13, 2021, our organizations received sensitive accounts of absolutely horrific police conduct and practices which, if true, must be shocking to anyone with a human conscience. These accounts show that when there is a mentality at the highest levels of government that defines young demonstrators as “terrorist vandals” and issues the corresponding orders against them, they become targets and victims of criminal designs, with the gravest consequences imaginable.
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ALBERTO CARRASQUILLA was Minister of Finance under President Uribe (2003-2007) and under President Ivan Duque from 2018 to May 2021. This former finance minister privatized the water supply service, draining funds from already poor municipalities for his own private companies. In April 2021, he presented an obscene tax reform bill, contested from all sides. Because of all this, the Colombian state decided to reward him by nominating him for the presidency of the Development Bank of Latin America...
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Today, May 2, the Iván Duque government decided to listen to the public uproar and withdraw its regressive, damaging tax reform, a flippant attempt to inflict further suffering on the Colombian people, who have already been gravely affected by the government’s failure to adopt a coherent approach to the pandemic.
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Since April 28th, thousands of Colombians have joined the national strike which started mainly against a regressive tax reform bill proposed by the Colombian government and now has become a wider and diverse protest of indigenous, afro-descendant, peasants, workers, women and LGTBQI collectives, unions, youth, students, academics and health workers to challenge the nation’s violent and unequal order.
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