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Manufacturing fascism: The story of Colombias Gomez family
written by Adriaan Alsema May 28, 2017
Colombia’s second largest newspaper, El Colombiano, is owned by a family with a history of admiration for fascist dictators, massacres and state corruption. The family’s domination over public opinion in Medellin in arguably undisputed.
El Colombiano, nonetheless, has over history gone as far as inciting violence and concealing war crimes to advance the ultra-conservative agenda of the Gomez family, a family implicated in state crimes ranging from massacres to the embezzlement of funds for poor farmers.
El Colombiano is by a long shot not the only paper to put a family’s political and commercial interests above that of the public. In fact, it was founded a year after Liberal Party (LP) elites from Bogota founded El Tiempo, the newspaper that for decades promoted the political agenda of the family of President Juan Manuel Santos.
El Colombiano has a tradition of violating almost every basic principle of journalism for the benefit of either the Gomez’ family’s wealth or their ultra-conservative political convictions, initially in alliance with the regional branch of the Conservative Party and more recently the hard-right Democratic Center party of former President Alvaro Uribe.
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https://colombiareports.com/manufacturing-colombian-fascism-story-gomez-family/
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