US pretends Columbia is getting better

[Comrade B]

Just to prove how weak the idea of human rights are to the US.... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/world/americas/12colombia.html?ref=world
apparently having killed 30 fewer union activists than 2 years ago qualifies you to be a humane country... even if that still means you still killed 50 this year.

[RedSonRising]

The bourgeois media will continue to hide the fundamental issues of Colombian society until a respectable revolutionary group finds a way to bring such issues to attention.

[El Furibundo]

The bourgeois media will continue to hide the fundamental issues of Colombian society until a respectable revolutionary group finds a way to bring such issues to attention.

"Washington is trying to reassure Latin America that a proposal to give American forces greater access to Colombian military facilities will not create permanent United States bases."

It appears that is exactly what Washington is trying to prevent.

[willdw79]

We on the left call them fascists because they are real murderers. They have no reservations against killing people. Not in some abstract way, in a real way, they are tyrants. The fascist label is not a label they did not earn.

[RotStern]

lol. This is stupid. Good job Columbia your almost there. xD yeaah right.

[n0thing]

"A State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, said Colombia must still make progress on human rights, and he described in a statement “several disquieting challenges,” (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/sept/129135.htm) including allegations of killings of civilians by soldiers and illegal surveillance."