COLOMBIA Where You Are Free to Assemble So Long As You Don't Mind Being Hunted Down and Killed Later

[magbana]

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With all this talk of the FARC in the papers lately you may have forgotten that Colombia's right wing paramilitaries are also listed as a terrorist organization by the United States. Well maybe "forgotten" is not the right word and "told they no longer exist" may be more accurate, considering that today our dumbass president told Americans, again, that the paramilitaries had "demobilized," which is to say they "changed their name to get off that list."

Anyway two weeks ago a million people marched in Bogota and around the world to protest all those poor fuckers who've been killed by the Colombian government and those nonexistent paramilitaries. A million people. Naturally you didn't read about it in the U.S. because nobody covered it, even though the marchers came up with the best chant ever uttered by a human being ever: "Uribe, Gonorea - La Gente esta con Correa!" Look it up it's real!

Sadly our patriotic press corps also didn't cover the follow-up part where march organizers got murdered one by one, which prompted a stern finger wagging (in Spanish) by the United Nations and not much else because we've got a trade deal to pass or else socialized health care will win.
Tags:

* Colombia
* Hey What If That Happened in Venezuela?
* paramilitaries
* Uribe

http://www.borev.net/2008/03/colombia_where_youre_free_to_a.html

[Bacchus39]

1. and millions more marched weeks before at another anti-FARC rally

"a million" is the first time I heard that about the more recent march. thousands is what I heard. go to el tiempo and look at the march pics and get back to us.

[magbana]

2. Now why would I go to El Tiempo . . .

anymore than you will go to venezuela analysis. I think your sources suck just as you think mine do.

EVERYONE ELSE: just go to www.borev.net and laugh your ass off.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Uribe's government pressured employers to let their people off for the day, and for schools

to let the students out to attend the "grass roots" march.

When word got out the other people planned to march, as well, some got death threats, and public statements were made indicating they were all supporters of the FARC, an open invitation for retaliation against them.

Murderous assholes are all alike. No one here's fooled by that pro-Uribe crap. NO ONE.

There were all kinds of invitations to attend for the pro-Uribe marchers, or simply people or kids who wanted to take the day off, and there were death threats for the others.

How primitive. It's a right-wing idea of a "democracy."