Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Alvaro Uribe or Juan Manuel Santos; The Truth About Colombia

- Over 14,000 civiliam deaths under Uribe.

- Over 2 million internally displaced people. Highest forced political and economic internally displaced population in the world.

- Paramilitaries taking over local governments.

- Private-paramilitary land grabs exceeding 10 million acres of land, half of Colombia's arable land, going to neoliberal monocropping of palm oil and other biofuel crops.

- Colombia alone is home to 49 % of the killings of trade unionists worldwide.

Check the link.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/10/latin_american_historian_greg_grandin_on

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