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Organizaciones sociales de Colombia marchan en apoyo a Sintracarbón

October 23, 2020 By IndustriALL

Organizaciones indígenas, afro descendientes, cívicas, sociales y sindicales de Colombia marcharon en defensa de los trabajadores de Sintracarbón, quienes desarrollan una huelga en Cerrejón hace 46 días.

Poverty, racism, and inequality merge with COVID-19 to create ‘syndemic’

October 14, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

For the world's poorest billion people today, non-communicable diseases account for more than one-third of their disease burden. COVID-19 is another layer added to it.

Colombia-U.S. Axis: Hitting at Venezuela

September 25, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Masses of working people in Venezuela are mobilized and anti-imperialist. They are why their government survives. It would survive easier with a kindred movement in Colombia. A U.S. version would be icing on the cake.

U.S. must return political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia

June 24, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Simón Trinidad, a leader of the FARC, faced unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He’s being held under the cruelest of conditions and will die in prison unless he is released.

New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela

June 5, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

U.S. troops on the way to Colombia, officially to fight narco-terrorism. But the threat to Venezuela can't be ignored.