First Colombia elected a leftist president, former rebel Gustavo Petro, which everyone knows they weren't allowed to do that. Then President Petro actually thought that he could get away with ruling as an elected leftist.
The nerve of that guy!
No one was a bigger supporter of America's regime change policy for Venezuela than Colombia's far-right government.
And then Colombia elected its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, and everything changed.
As recently as January 2022, this was the story from that part of the world.
In much the same way that the massive protests in Chile in 2019, that the government tried unsuccessfully to put down with violence, led to a leftist being elected president, the massive protests in Colombia in 2021, that the government tried unsuccessfully to put down with violence, has led to a leftist being
There's too much going on to focus on any one thing, so I'm just going to have to dump it all into one essay.
Today is election day in Colombia, and for the first time in that nation's 200 year history there is a real chance to have a leftist president.
Everyone knows about NATO membership, but few are familiar with the fact that NATO has "allies" and "partners".
They include such countries as Japan, Australia, and believe it or not, Russia (from 2002 to 2014).
Venezuela is the Bad Kind of Narco State.
Last year Washington indicted the elected government of Venezuela on charges of “narco-terrorism,” and even sent warships to patrol the coast to stop the flow of drugs from Colombia.
I know that I just did an essay about South Americans elections, but this is different and deserves it's own essay.
The consistently right-wing nation of Colombia (that I've heard referred to as "America's Israel in South America") is suffering from a worker's revolt that continues to spread and pick up intensity.
For over 50 years the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought a brutal civil war that displaced millions and killed 200,000, mostly civilians. Finally a peace agreement was finalized in November 2016.
But not everyone welcomed peace. Right-wing extremists opposed the negotiations, and the agreement itself. Those extremists happen to be former president Alvaro Uribe and current President Iván Duque.
The uprising continues to spread.
Colombia is joining the continent-wide popular revolt against neoliberalism.
