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Honduras: Suppression postgolpista

COMMON GRAVE FOUND THE ONE WITH CORPSES OF MURDERED POSTGOLPISTA under the current regime. GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO END BY THE STRIKE FORCE WITH THE STRENGTH OF TEACHERS

The president of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, Bertha Oliva , confirmed the finding in San Pedro Sula , north of the country, uns grave containing more than a hundred missing in the last three months. According

Oliva told Radio South by That shows the magnitude of crimes against humanity being committed in the country. The president of the human rights body claims that "state repression works in conjunction with organized crime" .

Oliva explained that each day will receive "10 complaints of violations ranging from assassinations, to harassment and death threats to members of the Resistance Front and other social movements." Thus, in recent days were killed four people, two of which are minor.

The peasant leader, Teresa de Jesús Flores Elvir , was found dead with signs of torture. Meanwhile, an armed group completed a Víctor Manuel Mata Oliva with Sergio Magdiel Amaya, 18, and Omar Villegas Rodving , 15. Both were headed to the community of Paso Aguán , in the northern province of Colón . The three people belong to riddled Unified Movement of Peasants Aguán (MUCA) .

In this conflict, Oliva explained that "the government says it is making progress in resolving the conflict over land, but progress that is lived in the country is murder MUCA permanent members" .

Farmers accused of these murders the landlord Miguel Facussé, one of those involved in civil plot the coup against President Zelaya .

The murder of Teresa de Jesus Flores

The Red Feminists Resistance and Honduran organizations denounced the torture and murder of Teresa de Jesus Flores Elvir, leader and coordinator several peasant organizations belonging to the National Resistance Front Popular .

In a statement, Honduras feminists , condemned the murder of activist of 52 years old, who spent much of them to fight for the farmers movement. Teresita

, as he was affectionately called was mother of 14 children, originally from the department of Comayagua and coordinated several organizations among which are: the Union of Workers (UTC) and Peasant Organization of Honduras (OCH) . Recently, he was part of Coordinating Council of Peasant Organizations of Honduras (Cococho).


According to his family, Teresita disappeared on August 7 at noon, while traveling from Tegucigalpa to his house in Comayagua . The last time I saw it was preparing to take the bus.

The Red Morazánican Information (RMI) , reported Tuesday that 14 August was found the body of the activist to 35 kilometers from the city of Siguatepeque , shot and showed signs of having been tortured. When he entered the morgue, the body of Flores was labeled as unknown, and later identified by her former husband.

peasant organizations and feminist resistance, noted that this murder is another example of the repression that exists in Honduras since the coup on 28 June 2009, when he was overthrown the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya . Feminists accused

the present government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa be directly responsible for the escalating violations of human rights of women.


Frames Manuel Zelaya accused coup

The former president of Honduras and current coordinator of the National Front Popular Resistance Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was charged the Honduran Public Ministry of the alleged diversion of funds donated by the Venezuelan Government over which he presided. The Resistance Front claimed that the cause seeks to complicate the possible return of Zelaya, who is in exile in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. also said that the Government of Lobo coup structure remains intact in the country.

This new action by the Government of Porfirio Lobo is opposed to the recommendations of the High Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS), which raised the need to annul the judgments against Zelaya motivations for having policies.

On the other hand, Front announced that it gathered more than 940,000 signatures to convene a Constituent Assembly . Also the undersigned demand the unconditional return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales , the Father Andrés Tamayo and all Hondurans in exile.

Threats against teachers on strike for the third week

The teachers' strike affecting the primary and secondary education at the state entered its third week across the country, while parents family, who oppose the strike, threatening to force open the schools.

Parents in Tegucigalpa , united in the organization "back to school " warned which opened Monday with hammers the gates of the schools and colleges that teachers have with padlocks.

Teachers on strike demanding the government to reinstate the Institute for Teachers (IMPREMA) about four billion lempiras (210 million dollars) taken from that institution.

also oppose the privatization of education through the "General Law of Education " that is ready to enter the debate in Congress , educators told the local press.

President Porfirio Lobo Sosa , is committed to providing security in schools for children and young people can return to classes and the National Police warned they would not allow obstruct vehicular traffic, so if you decide to make that action will be evicted. Last Friday, several teachers were injured by an eviction that did National Police in Tegucigalpa , to normalize the traffic of vehicles on the capital's roads.

Teachers require the dismissal of Education Minister Alejandro Ventura , and that the government does not deduct from his salary the days that have not worked, what President Wolf reiterated that this is not negotiable and the day that teachers do not attend to teach, not be paid.

Last Friday police with tear gas evicted hundreds of teachers who had taken over four hours two major boulevards in the Honduran capital and detained some four leaders who were beaten during the operation.

The detainees were sent yesterday to the Attorney General, accused of assaulting authority.

Friday in protest protesters burned tires, painted slogans on buildings and threw rocks and sticks at police, who took about four hours after the protest started.

Teachers accuse the police of "repressive " and having "massacred " to the four arrested leaders, "but does not act against those who took the money from the Institute for Teachers" a union leader said.

José Manuel Zelaya Letter to the Honduran working class

the desk of former President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales General Coordinator FNRP


Partners (as) Workers Honduras:

Me am writing to give them strength and encouragement at this time, the levels of brutality of the regime, can only be compared with the desperate race to have to deliver all assets of the Honduran transnational capital and local representatives.

In the history our country never experienced a more difficult situation, and we had to confront the insatiable greed of a few, now reveal without reservation before our eyes and strange.

The defenseless of our population against the repressive forces is palpable fear that unite to defeat them.

victims of repression in the coup, as the receiver beatings and torture, are now subjected to embarrassing trials, which have no legal reason, but if they express the arbitrariness and barbarism that prevail today in the Honduran institutions.

wish to express my appreciation to the partners committed to human rights by their status as true representatives of justice in Honduras.
For now, the government of Porfirio Lobo, by order of the oligarchy, only seeks to avert teachers' unit and the labor movement, which looks in their eyes as the force that must dismantle all costs.

The current situation, although still remains uncertain, should result in the UNITY of all social forces, we must the safety of workers each day, the countryside and the city focus its efforts on the unit and the organization to combine step by step the positions of all sectors deal with this struggle and the struggles to come.

demands to create unity and popular support should not be shy, be bold and clear against the urgent need to improve people's living conditions.

Considering the poor level of commitment that this government has with the social sectors, it must be vital, forceful and outspoken in demanding the popular classes and give no space under the working-class struggle.

Teachers in struggle, must have full support, to overcome the disdain with which they are treated and claims priority should be an integral part of the claims.

The minimum wage for workers is merited and should be appropriate to the cost of basic food basket ranging on average between L and L 6600.00 6 900. 00 monthly

is not a gift, what we need. We demand what rightfully belongs to the working class.
This year should be debt including maquila and commitment to them.

should make a general appeal to the working class, farmers, across the country, especially the low aguan in intense fighting and uneven. Call to integrate
the sectors neglected for centuries indigenous rights, Garifuna, Miskito, women, LGBT and all marginalized sectors that may escape my memory at this difficult time.
All events clearly show us a scheme in which it is imposed by all means fear and division of all the forces of political and social opposition in order to break the resistance. Today

back all laws, decrees, regulations and measures they take to benefit the people. Measures that often meant clashes with the oligarchy that always insists on charging people regardless of the levels of Neo slavery and poverty.

Access to basic services, today almost all privatized banking system to credit at low interest rates for farmers to lower the cost of living, medicine, health, education must be considered in the proposals.

The violent outcome and implementation of strong fist for men and kid gloves for the coup and the oligarchy, is the worst of the paths he has chosen the current system, every day people are more rejection.

peers, the moment requires a great deal of effort and progress for the organization; The journey is the unbreakable unity of working men and women primarily, about the National Front Popular Resistance.

elite often mistakenly believe that employees are only those of us who marched in demonstrations, workers are those that we deliver our work force and wages and other compensation in most of the time or in domestic work is recognize us.

For this reason, it is important to understand that the popular movement is a whole, the working class, employed, unemployed person, sub used in the countryside and the city should feel unified, identified in this fight.

I invite you to participate, associated with firmness and conviction, I'm sure convinced that victory is in our hands, but let's our the uncertain future dominated by the arbitrariness with which we are governed, our mind takes over.

A ruling class, we say: you are wrong because they want to, never losing the right to water, work and life and the rights that belong to us.

although we will not allow outsourcing and want to impose the conference time or we manage the sectors that have proven to betray the people.

are thousands and thousands who have no work, we sell products under one-sided interest loans, which are victims of violence, injustice, corruption and impunity, those who suffer persecution vile system judicial abject and cowardly, who remain in exile by force of guns murderers, we are all one people, and we're all going today with the workers and especially workers with teacher education, to paraphrase when talking MORAZAN conservatives.

"You talk to enemies of freedom ... .. These people you are trying to vilify your lies will soon be your judge."

WORKERS OF MY LAND.
UNITY OR DEATH
FIGHT FOR THE WORKING CLASS OF HONDURAS !

Mel Zelaya.
Former President of Honduras
G. FNRP Coordinator.
August 22, 2010
Dominican Republic.


(Sources: Agencia PULSAR, Adital, Notimex , EFE and Minga Informativa)

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Because you have not just any tickets: "The supremacy of the word Galiciano Galileo."

Some ideas that wander through my mind are reflected in this blog, many others do not, today, I want to thank the Galileo Galiciano that without familiar face, showing me the beauty that has through a common comment from a blog using a metaphor. It is a poetic force that is well worth consideration art, and as that was the engine that gave impetus and led to the birth of this blog I transcribe it:

To Manoli13

Large and small rivers are flowing not only with the contribution of snow melt and incessant rains, but also with the modest contribution of countless hidden flowing fountains.

Sure, Manoli: The sources also relieve the thirst of travelers.

Greetings

in an earlier comment I had left these - for me, flattering and motivating words

Beautiful blog for those who are also looking. And so, the brains of those who look but do not see, discover the alphabet and language of mathematics in the works of man and the expression of nature.

Mathematics is reason and emotion, but emotion and feeling governed by the brain that "rules" in the heart. Physically and metaphorically. Greetings

These comments are part of the entry:

http://blogs.publico.es/ciencias/el-juego-de-la-ciencia/953/turismo-matematico/

And if any contribution, that we should contribute to this social intelligence can and should improve the world , whichever no Zero-Sum Game (Robert Wright ) - front the most widespread and Zero-Sum, because if we talk about metaphors , I like to spread one of the most poignant metaphors of the story: "Strange Fruits " ("Strange Fruit " )

Abel Meeropol (1903-1986), a Jewish professor of Russian origin, he wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Allan, the poem "Bitter Fruit" (Bitter Fruit)

Strange Fruits (Strange Fruit )

Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black onesies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop.

South host trees strange fruit, Blood in the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from tree poplars. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, Bulging eyes and crooked mouths, Essence of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here's the fruit that emboldens the crowds, (the fruit) which brings rain, wind to suck, (the fruit) that the sun rot, which is sprayed on trees, so here bitter harvest.

This song that dared to sing in 1939 Billie Holiday at the Cafe Society , (a club frequented by intellectuals progressive, one of the first places outside of Harlem where blacks and whites attending), in Greenwich Village, New York, social EUAes a complaint of a heinous act that is practiced daily in the southern states of the U.S. since the late nineteenth century through the 60's of XX century: the lynching of people who were not white-skinned ( six in ten white Southerners approved of the lynching).

"Never ask for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee."

John Donne (Meditation XVII), written in 1624.


More information about this appalling metaphor, those fruits that hang from trees Southerners and whose pictures were sold as souvenirs to the 40:

http://vagabundia.blogspot.com/2007 / 10/extraos-frutos.html


not stop listening to Josh White version on which was rated the song of the century by Time magazine in 1999.

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Latin America: Femicide

DECREASE BUT NO INCREASE IN CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN LATIN AMERICA. CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN REGIONS ARE AN highest murder rate

Central America and the Caribbean are the regions where the highest rate of murders of women, also called "femicide" , says the III International Report "Violence against women in relationships" , developed and published by the Centro Reina Sofía from Valencia (Spain ). The study analyzed data on 135 countries between 2000 and 2006.

The report reveals that in 2006 were killed 42 women per million , throughout Latin America. Although the femenicidio has filed a decline in much of the world, Dominican Republic was the country of Latin America and the Caribbean, which had the highest increase in this phenomenon.

According to the report, countries that were highlighted in the occurrence of femenicidios in general were El Salvador, with 129 murders of women, per million inhabitants, Guatemala with femenicidios 93 cases per million, Honduras, with 45, Colombia , with 50 entries. In femenicidio specific analysis in the domestic environment, the report notes that most of the cases occurred in Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico and .

Mexico and Colombia top the list of countries in the Latin American region a greater number of women murdered in the home environment. Colombia also ranks second in cases of femenicidio between partners or former partners.

Puerto Rico, Honduras, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Nicaragua are among the countries that record numbers, over half of murders of women fruit of relationships between partners or former partners, according to Report. Although the femenicidio has declined, in general, about 45% between 2000 and 2006, murders committed between partners or former partners increased by 15%.

Despite these numbers, the report notes that Latin American countries and Caribbean countries have made great strides in the development of laws against femenicidio. The problem is that these rules do not apply.

generally femenicidios cases occur, most often, with the use of weapons such as knives, for example. Studies indicate that the aggressors were abused during childhood and use in adulthood, violence to resolve conflicts.

For the first time the report included the views of 37 NGOs on the effectiveness of laws to combat femenicidio. Of the 135 countries surveyed, only 72 developed specific laws or proposed laws to protect women. In Europe, there was some momentum, as Since 2006, 28 new laws were implemented.

To read the report :

http://www.fundacionluisvives.org/upload/88/18/informe.pdf

In Chihuahua, killed in seven months than in all of 2010

In the Mexican state of Chihuahua , whose capital is Ciudad Juárez on 18 August, exceeded the total number of murders of women around the year 2010
With three cases discovered that day, the record reached femicide 169, while during 2009 the figure was 164 and in 2008 there were 87.

Official statistics state that 90 percent of cases of crimes against women is related to organized crime and the rest to domestic violence or family. File journalistic
states that in January 2010 occurred 16 murders against women, 9 February, 28 March, 15 April and 17 May, while June ended with 29 victims, July 25 and 29 cases so far August.

Official data of the Attorney General of the State (PGJE ) state that 846 women have been murdered from 1993 to date, when it began to be documented femicide.

Monitoring of journalism that takes intentional homicides committed against women, indicates that the January 21, 1993 December 31, 2007, 427 crimes were quantified, while the 2008 closed with a total of 87 cases, 2009 with 164 and until yesterday had 168 murders committed against the female gender.

The breakdown of data is set in 1993 was reported in 19 events, 19 in 1994, 36 in 1995, 37 in 1996, 32 in 1997, 36 in 1998, 18 in 1999, 32 in 2000, 37 2001, 36 in 2002, 28 in 2003, 19 in 2004, 33 in 2005, 20 in 2006, 25 in 2007, 87 in 2008, 164 in 2009 and 168 in 2010.

In the latest killings of victims did not exceed 25 years.

Femicide in Guatemala


Although the authorities in Guatemala the main motives of the violent deaths of women, are the links to the gangs, gangs or criminal groups organized, family violence and personal vendettas, women's organizations believe that the killings result from unequal power relations between women and men.

According to a publication of the evening "The Time ", most cases investigated by the judiciary, have been associated with the actions of gangs and organized crime groups.

They are attacked when they attempt to leave or betray the gang and when they make mistakes in any criminal action, reports. Stresses that

so far in 2010 there have been 410 violent deaths of women , which shows a slight upward trend compared with previous years statistics. The main feature is that murderers are extremely sexist, the newspaper said.

In contrast, feminist organizations for the violent death of women stems First, the unequal power relations between women and men and, secondly, the way society views women: a property on which to decide, exposed.

Sandra Morán, Women's Sector, states that in the violent deaths of Guatemalan also is closely related to the role they play in society.

Women empowered and participatory sectors cause discontent traditionalists who insist that the female is in charge of performing household chores, he says.

To Moran is in those spaces where citizens are more vulnerable to being abused by their partners, a situation aggravated when the authorities do not provide specific protection measures, or do not facilitate access to justice.

A report by the Mutual Support Group (GAM) recommended strengthening the authorities dealing with complaints, especially about family violence, sexual or property, and that failure to act promptly generated the conditions for the aggressor violent victims to death.

About the increase in violent deaths of women in Guatemala , United Nations in 2009 introduced in this country campaign with five goals JOIN that must be met in 2015 and are intended to end violence against women.

This year we launched the regional campaign Access to Justice for Women in Central America and Mexico , a region that in 2009 carried out more than 2,300 femicides in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua , El Salvador and Mexico.

regional campaign adopted the first of the five objectives of UNITE , which states that the absence of laws to end violence and their non-implementation where there already is widespread in the world and impunity is often the result of States to implement international standards in national and local levels.


Where are the young Mexican?

For Gladis Torres Ruiz (*)

As a result of a series of omissions of the State, the human rights of young Mexican women, ages 15 and 29 years old are constantly violated.

Every day, they face a lack of opportunities and denial of basic rights such as access to education, health services, and employment. At high This lack of public policies, they are included in the generation of so-called "Ninis" (neither in school nor working). Young Mexican

occupy much of their time in home care and others, daughters, sisters, wives or daughters assume the role of "caregivers", because society considers "better prepared" than men for this task, said Perla Vazquez, general coordinator of Choose Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

And although it is not their choice, young people without opportunities, are responsible for doing unpaid work, feeding, caring, and doing chores for others, while others go to seek employment and other options, ie reproduces and reinforces the construction of a macho culture, the specialist told Inter Press Service.

According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) in 2005, in 100 Mexican aged 15 and over, 10 could not read or write, and 7 out of 100 men were illiterate.

A fifth (21.7 percent) of women aged 15 and over residing in localities of less than 2 000 500 inhabitants could not read or write, compared to 16 percent of men.

The National Survey on Time Use (ENUT) 2009, indicates that women devote 29.2 hours week on housework, while men only 7.8 hours in the same period.

Mexican women spend almost 20 hours to the work of caring for others, while men hold 8.8 hours to this task.

For every child or child under five years, work at home increased by 5.92 percent, while that for every girl and boy of 6 to 12 years of age, the workload grows 4.87 percent.

addition, women represent 70.49 percent of the people who support other households, while men only 29 percent. Women's Rights

"In Mexico, young women are the main target of human rights violations in sexual and reproductive health, violence and femicide," said Perla Vazquez.

The policies implemented by the federal government, violate all the rights of women, "all murdered, the disappeared, victims of domestic violence, and who are denied access to termination of pregnancy, they are young" said.

The report "Youth in Latin America, trends and urgency" of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico points out that pregnancy in women aged between 15 and 19 years old, has been increasing.

That fact, is directly related to educational level and school dropout. Notes that at that age pregnancies are at higher risk, since most young people belong to the poorest sectors of the population.

In states such as Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Chiapas and Guerrero, killing more than 6 women, between 15 and 24 per 100 thousand, due to complications with childbirth and postpartum period, figures show National Population Council 2007.

add that 28.3 percent of girls suffer economic violence claims the couple how it spends money, does not give spending, spend what you need for your home or work or study prohibited. 12.9 percent had been victimized at some point in their lives some kind of physical violence. After

in April 2007 legalized abortion in Mexico City in 17 states of the country is exercised violence against girls by denying them their right to decide to establish in their constitutions for the "protection of life from conception. " Murderers

the streets

Imelda Marrufo, representative of the Network Bureau of Women in Ciudad Juarez, recalled that while in the most critical years femicide (years 90), there were about 60 murders a year in the first 4 months of 2010, 126 women have been killed and those responsible are in the streets.

Allegations of missing women, said, have not ceased and 2008 to date is estimated that there are 91 missing women, 55 of them are minors.



agenda in this, which is the World Youth Year, Mexico will host the World Conference theme and in that forum, will cover topics such as the role of youth issues such as violence, the processes of peacebuilding, HIV / AIDS and access to new technologies.

23 to 27 August in Leon, Guanajuato, seek legislative recommendations for advancing the agenda of youth, as well as positioning the subject and reflect the global reality of youth so as to create targeted public policies.

Conference-divided into a parliamentary forum of civil society and a government, will seek to be a forum for discussion and reflection on youth rights and promotion of the Millennium Development Goals.

(*) Article published on August 16, 2010 in News Cimac , Mexican website supporter of "journalism gender "


(Sources: Adital, The Daily Local-Ciudad Juárez, CN-Cimac News

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VOTE FOR THE COLOMBIAN VENEZUELA WITH OVER 300 FEET AND FLEE EVERY DAY 'PARA'-PARADISE TO' HELL 'BOLIVARIANO

A study lasted 90 days Association of Colombians in Venezuela showed that a daily average of about 352 Colombians crossed the border to flee and take refuge in Venezuela, said the coordinator of the organization, Juan Carlos Tanus . During a notif

granted to the program evista shock, which transmits Venezolana de Television (VTV) , Tanus indicated that this amount, 62% remains in Venezuela and try to find there a new life. The reasons for this migration are primarily economic and, as is study, the majority of immigrants expressed their desire not to return to Colombia until it resolves the problem of scarcity of jobs there.

"There are scenarios like of the north coast where the advance of paramilitary activity in the department of Cordoba has caused 12% of its population currently living in Venezuela, while in the department of Sucre on 20% of the population also lives in Venezuela " said .

Tanus said that immigration has increased during the administration of President Colombia, Alvaro Uribe Proof of this is that in 2002, when it assumes the presidency, about 23,000 people moved to Venezuela ; in 2003 about 66,000 and, in the last eight years, one could speak of 480,000 Colombians leaving for Venezuela .

"This can be interpreted as a failure of the security policy of the Uribe government. Especially since most of the displaced are fleeing because of paramilitary violence " said.

explained that the majority of women, among the Colombians who migrate to Venezuela . "They are 58% of migration, are women who lost their family, partner, women who come with their children to make new life projects" .


Venezuelan-Colombian Crisis and The Fall of the godfather '
by Raúl Zibechi (*)

The crisis unleashed by the outgoing government of Colombia, is being limited by the other governments in the region that gave priority to the detriment of unasur oas still in free fall to be more wedded to the past than the future.

"Saints should do your best to make Uribe accepted the embassy in Beijing," wrote the British magazine The Economist as simple advice to avoid the new president what he can become a nightmare: the interference of Alvaro Uribe in everything happens in Colombia during his absence in the Narino Palace. At this point there are few who doubt that behind the strong complaint against Venezuela there is nothing else than the fear of losing standing in domestic politics, with serious risks to her own person.

Bolivarian the side are also domestic issues that led to Hugo Chavez to stage the drama of the attack on the country, media ad that included the presence of Diego Armando Maradona, turning the issue into a diplomatic farce. If the Colombian fears for the immediate future, Venezuelan squints legislative elections on September 26 for the first in his ten years in office, may be adversely leading to a complex scheme and delicate.

Inazio Luiz Lula da Silva was the most caustic of the presidents of the region: "What I found odd is that this occurs within days of the companion Uribe leaves office. The new president gave clear signals that it wants to build peace. Everything going well until Uribe made the complaint "(Telam, July 25). The question everyone is asking is what led the president of Colombia to dust off an old-hat issue, the presence of members of the FARC on Venezuelan soil, just two weeks before leaving office.

colonial empire

Semana magazine happens to be half connected to the Santos family, one of the names embedded in the Colombian elite since colonial times. Weekly Column Antonio Caballero, one of the most brilliant journalists in the country, on Saturday 17 July, will reveal some details of the intense battle between Uribe and Santos. "Uribe is a slap to the only foreign minister to appoint a governmental officer who had the dignity to resign because he disagreed with their patronage," he wrote in reference to Maria Angela Holguin, chancellor appointed by the president-elect.

"Roman History" was the title of the formidable piece of journalism. Because the emperors of Roman decadence used to kill his predecessor, but it was always impossible to assassinate his successor. "It's just that what you are trying to do in the last days of his mandate: to assassinate the president-elect." Caballero Uribe interprets the claim about the presence of the FARC in Venezuela as an attempt to sabotage the normalization of relations when Chavez had been invited to the inauguration on 7 August. Moreover

. Appointed Chancellor had expressed his desire to "clear differences" following the bombing of the camp of Raul Reyes in Ecuador, which is an attempt to depolarize the bilateral relations, something that could be beneficial to Colombia but in any way to the Southern Command has developed a policy rooted in conflicts escalate as a way to gain a foothold in the backyard.

there are no differences between Uribe and Santos. Appointed Agriculture Minister, Juan Camilo Restrepo, for years opposed the agrarian policies of Uribe. Santos declared its intention to promote reconciliation between the executive and judicial powers, which clashed almost constant during Uribe, as the second reported dozens of cases of parapolitics (financed by the narco MPs) in the ranks of the ruling party and ultimately did the second Uribe reelection despite polls that gave him as a favorite.

"His last day is spending the Uribe government to scrape up the crust pot of public finances, leaving 20-year committed expenditure of the nation," complains Caballero. Gave gold mines, signed works for the subway and a commuter train, and came to appoint ambassadors. That's Uribe. The man from down the Colombian oligarchy, who plays Santos, never quite accepted.

But disputes will not end with the emperor stabbed. "This country is not an empire, but a colony of the empire. So it's more likely that the thing is resolved with Uribe's extradition to the United States, "Knight concluded. "Exaggerated? However, it is spoken softly in Bogota, at least five years. It is unlikely that something like this happen, but that few are eager to Uribe. And that is said aloud, as to do now, is more than significant. Uribe

integrated drug trafficking and was aided by paramilitary groups, as contained in the National Security Archive of the United States revealed by Newsweek magazine (August 8, 2004). It establishes that Uribe was in the 90's, part of the Medellin cartel, led by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who was a friend intimate.

The U.S. intelligence report was issued in 1991, involving over a hundred dealers, thugs and lawyers connected to Escobar and says: "Alvaro Uribe Velez, a Colombian politician and senator dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel from high levels of government. " In the same paragraph says, "is a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar."

Who said changes?

Nobody should expect fundamental changes in the Santos administration. As Uribe's defense minister, was the one who gave the order to attack FARC camp in Ecuador and is directly responsible for the "false positives", hundreds of young people killed by the army to pass them by guerrilla casualties. But going to promote some changes. So far remained silent on the dispute Uribe / Chavez and announced his regional tour which will completely renovate the military leadership, placing first as an admiral and commander in chief.

While Uribe and the outgoing chancellor, Guillermo Bermudez, Venezuela launched heavy attacks, the future vice president, Angelino Garzon, a former trade unionist and left-wing man in the eighties, welcomed Chavez's statements by asking the guerrilla reconsider its strategy "because the world of today is not the Sixties."

international relations will be the priority of Santos. His close alliance with the United States is beyond question, but intends to diversify the relations, giving priority to diplomacy, integration and cooperation, and proceed to institutionalize international links. In fact, before assuming he toured Europe and then South America.

"To move towards democratic prosperity will require greater diversification of international relations of Colombia, both at the multilateral level as well in the search new partners and strategic alliances in the international arena, "Santos said in outlining what will be the next four years. The "democratic prosperity" replaced as a priority the "democratic security", which represents a new strategic focus. Defeated

guerrillas after eight years of encirclement and suppression, reduced to a minimum (less than 10 000 combatants isolates), strengthened the state and its armed units are trying to recover the economy and pave the way to stability. In short, the same policy that was inaugurated in 2002 with Uribe, but adapted to new realities, among which a world multipolar and a declining superpower ruled by Barack Obama.

improve relations with neighbors and pass the "microphone diplomacy" to a more professional diplomacy. So the choice of Holguín appoint as Chancellor: "So far in this book the appointments have been handled as payment for political commitments," says a foreign policy expert week, which led to "staff in embassies race is only 12 percent. " The aim would be to move from hot reactions to long-term planning.

mend relations with Venezuela has a strictly economic reading. The Diego Cardona former vice Quill believes that the economic model of Santos is similar to the Asian tigers, "but to do so really need a market like Venezuela, which is a natural market." Indeed, the neighboring country was always the second largest market for Colombian exports until it sank successive diplomatic crisis.

In 2008, Venezuela imported from Colombia for 7,000 million dollars, which will fall to less than 1,500 million this year. Manufacturing is the most affected (paper, cardboard, plastics, electrical equipment, clothing and food) is now looking for other destinations. In border areas the crisis is total and Smuggling grew to 70 percent. The fall in exports to neighboring explains at least drop a point of GDP this year will grow just 2.5 percent, compared to an average of 4 percent of the region.

other hand, Colombia has the highest unemployment and the highest rate of informal employment in South America. Poverty reaches 46 percent and extreme poverty to 16, rates are being reduced too slowly out. This set of structural problems Santos convinced of the need to prioritize the economy to sustain the military successes, since rapid growth is the best way to prevent a revival of the guerrilla and protest social.

UNASUR again

The Bolivarian government used the crisis to unite their electorate with a speech focused on national dignity and triggering the country feeling assaulted by his neighbor and, above all, United States. Uribe fired until the reports of the presence of guerrillas in Venezuela, the dominant issues were the loss of 120 thousand tons of food for poor management, equivalent to 7,000 million dollars in a country beleaguered by shortages, the collapse of the gross proceeds nearly six percent so far in 2010 and inflation of 30 percent in the first half. For

that many observers believe that the crisis is not resolved until September 27, the day after the parliamentary elections. In the current international situation, all countries need to be a quick resolution of the dispute and restore good regional climate, which not only lubricates trade relations but the integration.

One of the highlights is the role being played by unasur at the heart of conflict resolution. If Uribe oea preferred as the setting for their claims against Venezuela, the rest of the countries opted for a South American alliance and played a role in 2008 when he took up the internal conflict by supporting Evo Morales Bolivia attempts at destabilizing the autonomist Santa Cruz.

In the next crisis, in 2009 before the transfer of U.S. military facilities by the government of Uribe, the unasur served as space for Colombia to defend the agreement they had signed with Washington. Now displays its consolidation as the institution in which the key countries in the region rely on to will guide their relations and resolve conflicts. The increasing marginalization of the OAS is one of the most promising of the current crisis.

(*) Raúl Zibechi , Uruguayan journalist, is a professor and researcher at the Multiversidad Franciscan Latin America, and adviser to various social groups. Article distributed by http://alainet.org

Colombia and garbage databases
by Laurent Jones (*)
01/08 / 10

The recent decision of the Department of State of the United States to deny the visa application to one of the most recognized journalists denouncing the violation of human rights in Colombia, Hollan Morris gives reason activists that on many occasions expressed the intolerable level of persecution to which the current government has put everything that smacks of opposition.

Perhaps the first thing you have to say is that Colombia has become a pathetic country-prison in which its citizens can travel virtually anywhere in the world, important exceptions such as Brazil, without having been subjected to a humiliating Caching in your financial life, work and family in order to satisfy the requirements that each country one chooses to impose, which in any case guaranteed a visa. The broad authority of states to deny the visa without reasonable justification or more pussycat, allows discretion vulgar conceal discriminatory criteria. This unfortunate situation has established a global violation accomplice DD.HH. their nationals.

The origin of this reality has been the result of a combination of two aspects: first, the actions of the United States government in the 90, as part of its anti-drug war in Colombia included in the list of the world's pariahs and second, the weakness of their governments, which, despite being excluded from large revenues from tourism and international trade, and be socially and politically isolated, they have not been able to seriously contest that status.

In fact, although the origin of the veto to a Colombian national was the fight against drugs, it had no support when the U.S. policy changes toward the pole of counterterrorism, it fostered a close alliance between Bush and Alvaro Uribe. Apparently the two times that Uribe came to Bush's Texas ranch were not enough to ventilate this issue.

In this context, the rise of Obama was greeted by the democratic left a hope for change in Colombia and in particular, greater control to the right-wing government of Uribe's speech inflated by terrorism after the attacks of 11-S . Indeed

Uribe's commitment to the Republican Party reached such a level that was in Cartagena de Indias, and state honors, the only Republican candidate John McCain, when he was in a great political contest. So in the beginning, Obama's victory seemed a real slap the president of the South.

However, things will fly and not necessarily the most obvious. During the Obama relations with USA has been in a constant area of \u200b\u200bturbulence and ambiguity, on the one hand the distance marked by Bush against the potential re-election of Uribe with the famous phrase that "two terms in office are sufficient "was read as a gesture of opposition to the Colombian president and managing somehow a veto on the numerous reports of 8 years of scandals by excesses and abuses in the activities of intelligence agencies and security, among which are those known as "false positives", and forced massive displacement of peasant and indigenous population to the cities, and there called "pikes" telephone: a spy plan organized by the government against senior officials of the judiciary, opposition congressmen, journalists, critics and virtually everyone will interpose the unanimity environment that sought to create the outgoing governor.

Furthermore, postponing discussion of FTA-NAFTA with Colombia it definitely has been last in the waiting list for developing countries seeking the supposed benefit (which otherwise is not clear), leaving behind the newcomers. This was another gesture of rejection, although it was not obvious with the attitude of former U.S. ambassador to Colombia, very close to Uribe and largely indifferent to the scandals, which seemed to show that his government had no clear guidelines.

Perhaps the only thing that can be said with relative strength is that for Obama, Bush's favorite country in LA, is really irrelevant and such relaxation has been allowed to carry out the adage that "When the cat is, mice do party." Thus, despite having no support, Uribe has been party to no more track their movements by the northern government.

Now it is possible to assume that the initial pressure before the FTA, Uribe has been forced to offer certain benefits to the U.S. government, the first of them could be accepted have military bases all its neighbors against the second could be the delivery of data bases of intelligence and counterintelligence agencies created with pikes made by the Administrative Department Security-DAS, "of course, totally contaminated. Uribe thus killing two birds with one stone: get in good with Obama and, incidentally, gave a warning to his opponents.

So the government pays Democrat Obama, knowingly or not, an invaluable service to the Colombian right-wing government. The problem now is will the U.S. president with the owner of Nuevo Herald in Miami that says "Controversy Colombian journalist visa" and inside pages "deny visa to a strong critic of Uribe." In the words of the Director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, José Manuel Vivanco, who had just awarded to Morris in 2007 for his outstanding work on behalf of DD.HH. "Here we must make sure that the Obama administration no longer used or manipulated by the government and Colombia's intelligence services." (Nuevo Herald, July 13, 2010).

Finally it is worth noting that the law of intelligence and counterintelligence (1288, 2009) that allows anyone spying for encrypted concepts of national security, terrorism, democratic order, by intelligence agencies Colombia, with virtually no institutional control, was recently sued by the human rights advocacy organization, Association of Jurists, and the Foundation Reboot, formed by survivors of genocide to leftist political party, the Patriotic Union. The concept that this process should yield the Attorney General's Office requested the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the integrity of the law on procedural background as they were not treated as statutory law despite jeopardize the full exercise of fundamental rights to privacy, good name, the habeas data, honor, among others. Thus, the Constitutional Court has the word in Colombia, but what remains unclear is who will stop the wheel loose trash databases created with false information and for the sole purpose of stigmatizing and prosecute human rights defenders human rights in countries where serious violations of these rights. What is happening in the United States Embassy in Colombia warns us about this new weapon of information created with espionage, lying and secretly collected, stored and irresponsibly negotiated between countries at the expense of citizens.

(*) Laurent Jones is a young French lawyer currently based in Bogotá and collaborator in Colombia SINPERMISO Magazine, which published this article.


(Sources: Booksellers-RNV, and Sinpermiso.info Alai.org)