US funds Colombian Access to Justice program

[Judi Lynn]

US funds Colombian Access to Justice program
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:07
Teresa Welsh

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting the launch of the Colombian government's Access to Justice program with an investment of nearly $14 million.

The two-year program, launched Tuesday, aims to promote access to justice in Colombia, decrease the rate of impunity for criminals, and to restore public faith in the justice system, reports Radio Santa Fe.

Twenty municipalities targeted by Colombia's National Consolidation Plan will receive funds to strengthen their justice systems. In these areas the program will build ten new courthouses, eight courtrooms, and three victims centers, as well as setting up eight virtual courtrooms.

The program will also pay for the training of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and investigators.

Access to Justice aims to promote access to legal services for the Colombia's marginalized populations, like Afro-Colombians, indigenous, women, youth, disabled, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender), and other minority groups.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/12090-usaid-funds-access-to-justice-program.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. The USAID will "train" Colombian lawyers, judges, etc. to ignore Big Honcho crimes

like those of CIA-protected Uribe and his cronies and whoever Uribe was trying to protect with his secretly negotiated "total diplomatic immunity" for all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia--probably, first of all, Bush Jr. whom I strongly suspect authorized U.S. military crimes in Colombia.

I have come to believe that the USAID operates in--or rather, helps to create--an "Alice in Wonderland" world in which whatever they say, we can be pretty sure the opposite is true.

The Colombian prosecutors and courts have been going after Uribe and his cronies (some 70 of whom are under investigation/prosecution, or are already in jail, for their close ties to the death squads, bribery, spying, drug trafficking and other crimes). This has to be stopped. Thus, we have this U.S. infiltration process, with $14 million of our taxpayer dollars, into the Colombian justice system, the only thing that is working as it should be, in Colombia.

And thus we get all this jabberwocky about "access to justice" and "marginalized populations."

:puke:

:argh: