Colombia – Page 27 – People's World

Urgent need to change U.S. Colombia policy

November 19, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr. And Emile Schepers

President Alvaro Uribe leads a government strong on military repression serving big bankers, mega landowners, multi-national corporations, and elite families.

Communist editor speaks of struggle and socialism

November 10, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

An interview with Carlos Lozano a top official of the Communist Party of Colombia is no small matter.

Colombian women workers strike for survival

November 7, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Accompanied by her children and 25 fellow workers, strike leader Aidé Silva escorted our small U.S. labor delegation through an industrialized floriculture operation near Madrid, Colombia.

Unions to Colombia: Stop murdering labor activists

September 30, 2009 By Teresa Albano

Colombian trade unionists get murdered daily with impunity. Meet a young woman who is trying to stop it.

US role in Colombia and Honduras sparks Latin American criticism

August 30, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Storm signs are up over Latin America as new tensions play out against historical memories. The great liberator, Simon Bolivar, said in 1929 that the United States is "destined by Providence to plague America with misery...