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Encuentro in L.A.: Challenging, probing theater from Colombia and Cuba

November 10, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

The L.A. Latinx theater festival Encuentro de las Américas currently in progress includes works by Cuban and Colombian companies.

U.S. opts for military solutions in Latin America

July 10, 2017 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

The hegemonic ambitions of the United States are ultimately based more on its military power than on the ‘advantages’ of its economic system.

David Ravelo, Colombian political prisoner – free at last

June 23, 2017 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Ravelo, who was arrested and jailed in September 2010, had led the defense of his own people in Barrancabermeja against paramilitary attacks.

Colombia: Violence in a time of peace

June 2, 2017 By James Patrick Jordan

220,000 dead. 92,000 disappeared. Seven million displaced. Numbers are unable to communicate the hopes, fears, and tragedies shaping life in Colombia.

Colombians and Europeans say peace accord is imperiled

May 5, 2017 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

The government has been slow to implement provisions of the agreement, and paramilitaries are attacking political activists and members of social movements.