Business owners in northwest Colombia are conspiring with death squads to assassinate social leaders and prevent the restitution of land that was stolen during Colombia鈥檚 decades-long armed conflict, according to several Colombian NGOs.
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Ivan Duque has not even taken office and his government is already in crisis after the聽president-elect鈥檚 political patron, former president Alvaro Uribe, resigned from Congress.
"This is a fundamental precept of paramilitarism: clear the land to ensure smooth functioning for big business deals and, in this sense, this is no different to what has happened in the past few years in this country, which is the consolidation of what I would call a militarised neoliberal model, militarised in both a state and para-state sense."
An interview with Renan Vega Cantor, a professor at Colombia鈥檚 National Pedagogical University.
President Juan Manuel Santos and General Juan Pablo Rodriguez, one of the generals singled out by the report. Photo: Presidency of Colombia via TeleSUR.
Top generals in the Colombian army have been implicated in the long-running 鈥渇alse positives鈥 military scandal, according to a new report Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on June 24.
The BBC鈥檚 Panorama program on May 28 made explosive revelations about British state collusion with paramilitaries in the north of Ireland occupied by Britain. It implicates British authorities in the murder of hundreds of people, and in subsequent cover-ups.