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 (*)
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
"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
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).
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)
(*) 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)
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