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Tag Archives: Colombia
Colombia’s Capitalist Communes
Colombian flower farms (photo: Mike Freedman-Schnapp) Colombia’s flower farm workers have for some time been benefiting mightily from industrial support communities, which practice heavy nongovernmental social investment in workforce collectives. Many of the workers in these communities outside Bogota and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Bogota, business, CFTA, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, community, daycare, Fausta, Felipe Arango, flowers, free trade, government, labor, Medellin, MG Farm, rights, Shapiro, Sherrod Brown, social investing, trade, USA, worker rights, workers
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Because Aren’t All Insurgencies the Same?
Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal is a frustrating columnist. In April he made the head scratching argument that Khost province in Afghanistan, which has, along with the rest of RC-East, experienced a 36% jump in insurgent attacks over … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged Afghanistan, Colombia, FARC, Iraq, ltte, military, Sadr, sadr militia, sri lanka, tamil tigers, wsj, WTF
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Chavez Threatens Colombia Because He Finances Terrorism
McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America. Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed. Chavez reacted by sending … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Hugo Chavez
Tagged Colombia, ecuador, FARC, Hugo Chavez, Terrorism, uranium, Venezuela
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A Boy and His Hero
You don’t have to be Colombian for this beautiful advertisement to touch your heart.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged advertisement, advertising, boy, Colombia, Ejército de Colombia, hero, military, solider, video, youtube
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Anti-FARC March in D.C.
John Lilyea has the goods: So I decided to add my voice to the millions worldwide from here in DC. I was really surprised that an ad hoc organization put together such a large demonstration in such a short period … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Colombia, D.C., drug trafficking, FARC, John Lilyea, march, socialism, Terrorism, Venezuela
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No Mas FARC
Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez’s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Caracas, Colombia, dictatorship, FARC, Hugo Chavez, international, Latin America, Maracaibo, narcoterrorism, solidarity, Terrorism, Venezuela
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Terrorists by Any Name
JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez’s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as “insurgents,” rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Colombia, FARC, Hugo Chavez, Media, narco-terrorism, Reuters, Terrorism, Venezuela
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