FARC rebels kill 5 Colombian police, injure 3

[boiler]

FARC rebels kill 5 Colombian police, injure 3

Five Colombian police officers have been killed and three others injured in an ambush by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the north of the country, authorities say.

The attack took place on Monday in Antioquia province, according to Colonel Fernando Restrepo, AFP reported.

He said the rebels targeted an anti-narcotics patrol working on coca eradication in the province.

"This was an intense attack against the units," Restrepo said.

Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon called the attack an "inexplicable act of barbarity."

"Let us not be fooled in Colombia," he said, noting that "The president's and people's desire for peace and reconciliation is one thing. The desire by these people to trick us with this illegal and criminal trade is another."

The Colombian government and FARC have been engaged in peace talks in Cuba’s capital Havana since November 2012 to resolve a decades-long armed conflict and illegal drugs are one of the main discussion points on the agenda for the two sides.

The government and FARC have already reached an agreement on rural development and political participation in their talks and are set to discuss reparations to the victims of the conflict, disarming of the rebel forces and agreement on the mechanism for endorsing a resolution.

The FARC is Latin America’s oldest insurgent group and has been fighting the government since 1964.

Bogota estimates that 600,000 people have been killed and more than 4.5 million others have been displaced due to the fighting.

The rebel organization is thought to have around 8,000 fighters operating across a large swathe of the eastern jungles of the Andean nation.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/02/17/351158/farc-rebels-kill-5-colombian-police/

[ckaihatsu]

Twin Cites Anti-War Committee exposes U.S. war on Colombia

By staff

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Minneapolis, MN – The Twin Cities-based Anti-War Committee (AWC) held a program called “The War Next Door: U.S. Role in Colombia's Civil War,” March 22 here at May Day Bookstore. Speakers included Eden Yosief, of SEIU Healthcare, who recently traveled to Colombia, along with AWC organizers Jess Sundin and Meredith Aby-Keirstead.

After explaining how the U.S. backs its puppet government in Colombia, Jess Sundin of the Anti-War Committee stated, “The U.S. government has also taken a very hands-on role by criminalizing Colombia’s insurgency, as well as leaders of its social movements, and those who work in solidarity with them here in the U.S.”

“In particular, we know that the U.S. has imprisoned two Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members. The most well known is Ricardo Palmera, AKA ‘Simon Trinidad.’ He was one of the peace negotiators when I was in Colombia. In 2004, he was captured by the CIA while he was in Ecuador to meet with UN representatives. Palmera is held in solitary confinement in a high security federal prison, not allowed to receive letters or communicate freely with his lawyer,” said Sundin.

Sundin continued, “Another FARC member Anayibe Rojas Valderama, known as ‘Sonia’, was extradited to the U.S., then, in 2007, sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison here. And of course, there is our own case with the Anti-War Committee. The FBI investigation of us included ‘Daniela,’ an undercover agent who claimed to be of Colombian descent, and who took a special interest in our work in solidarity with Colombia. This work included organizing protests against U.S. military aid, hosting speakers from Colombian trade unionists and participating in solidarity delegations to witness firsthand the civil war fueled by our tax dollars. Though we only hosted speakers granted visas by the U.S. State Department, the government treats some of these union leaders as criminal terrorists, and we were investigated because our hosting them was seen as the crime of aiding terrorists.”

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[SensibleLuxemburgist]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=209369

I am stuck between supporting peace and an end to 50 years of bloody conflict or the continuation of the struggle of the Colombian people...

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=209369

I am stuck between supporting peace and an end to 50 years of bloody conflict or the continuation of the struggle of the Colombian people...


Don't worry about it -- it's not going anywhere anytime soon.... Recall that Colombia is 'the Israel of South America'....

[--Navarro--]

Don't worry about it -- it's not going anywhere anytime soon.... Recall that Colombia is 'the Israel of South America'....

What a shallow comparison. And yes, it seems all of this will lead to a peace treaty. Any Colombian living in the country would know it.

[mindsword]

why?

heres why:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoClamUuO4
http://www.wola.org/commentary/striking_afro_colombian_port_workers_attacked_by_a nti_riot_police
http://www.justiceforcolombia.org/news/article/661/striking-workers-brutally-attacked-by-colombian-police

tip of the iceberg. theyre propably sky high on coke when they beat strikers and shoot up people at random. many of these cops will have a flourishing career as right wing death squads when they retire.

i say good on em, theres plenty of em left. legalize victimless crimes. coca has a long culture in latin america, and farmers need money for food like everyone else. its the hipocrisy that is fucking evil, not the plant.

[mindsword]

lets cross out fingers for the peace talks, although i have some pretty bleak predictions.

[mindsword]

lets cross our finger for the government FARC(E) peace talks, although i have some pretty bleak predictions.

[mindsword]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=209369

I am stuck between supporting peace and an end to 50 years of bloody conflict or the continuation of the struggle of the Colombian people...

cant we have both........? :unsure:

[La Guaneña]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=209369

I am stuck between supporting peace and an end to 50 years of bloody conflict or the continuation of the struggle of the Colombian people...

A successful peace talk will not mean an end to struggle. The FARC-EP are already re-building their old legal fronts, and hopefully an end to the war will mean the possibility for larger, more effective mass struggle.

[Dagoth Ur]

Hurrah for FARC and their war against the puppets in Bogata.

[--Navarro--]

tip of the iceberg. theyre propably sky high on coke when they beat strikers and shoot up people at random. many of these cops will have a flourishing career as right wing death squads when they retire.


dumb stereotype. Colombia is not a cocaine consumer country. Southern Cone countries have a higher cocaine consumption rate. And any European country, a much higher one.

and they don't "shoot people at random". Maybe the idea fits well in your stereotypes about this "Third World" country ruled by "fascists", but the truth is that no one would allow that to happen.


The FARC-EP are already re-building their old legal fronts,

Source?

it's the opposite, the Farc is losing more and more combat fronts.

and if you are talking about the UP party, it never was a Farc party in the first place.

[--Navarro--]

btw, only a psychopat or a complete imbecile would think that there is a justification for murdering a group of people, because they share the same occupation/profesion with other people that is guilty of hurting someone.

Being police is a profession like any other in Colombia, young poor people chose it as an opportunity to make a stable career and make more money than in, say, a factory. There are people of all kinds there and most of them aren't guilty of these abuses.

Oftenly the stupidity of "revolutionary leftists" of this forum impress me.

[Comrade Jacob]

btw, only a psychopat or a complete imbecile would think that there is a justification for murdering a group of people, because they share the same occupation/profesion with other people that is guilty of hurting someone.

Being police is a profession like any other in Colombia, young poor people chose it as an opportunity to make a stable career and make more money than in, say, a factory. There are people of all kinds there and most of them aren't guilty of these abuses.

Oftenly the stupidity of "revolutionary leftists" of this forum impress me.

They target the organisation not the individual. Didn't Lenin say something about the police not being part of the proletariat?

[Sea]

btw, only a psychopat or a complete imbecile would think that there is a justification for murdering a group of people, because they share the same occupation/profesion with other people that is guilty of hurting someone.

Being police is a profession like any other in Colombia, young poor people chose it as an opportunity to make a stable career and make more money than in, say, a factory. There are people of all kinds there and most of them aren't guilty of these abuses.

Oftenly the stupidity of "revolutionary leftists" of this forum impress me.Don't interpret what I'm about to say as advocating cop-killing, but how the fuck can you condemn the concept of cop-killing?

Don't shit yourself; life is neither sacred nor special.

[La Guaneña]

Source?

it's the opposite, the Farc is losing more and more combat fronts.

and if you are talking about the UP party, it never was a Farc party in the first place.

Yes, I know that the FARC are losing combat fronts, and are negotiating peace on the defensive. I am talking about movements like the paro nacional campesino, or movements like UP, MP, FEU, etc. I know these are not necessarily FARCs "legal fronts", but they are legal fronts who have militants who also do other kinds of work.

[Lensky]

btw, only a psychopat or a complete imbecile would think that there is a justification for murdering a group of people, because they share the same occupation/profesion with other people that is guilty of hurting someone.

Being police is a profession like any other in Colombia, young poor people chose it as an opportunity to make a stable career and make more money than in, say, a factory. There are people of all kinds there and most of them aren't guilty of these abuses.

Oftenly the stupidity of "revolutionary leftists" of this forum impress me.

If they have guns and will attempt to kill or apprehend members of FARC, then they are military targets. Psychopathy has nothing to do with militant struggle and class warfare, that's an ideology which you can't prove or justify - fed to you by pacifists and ideologues of the bourgeois state.

[mindsword]

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im sure they had their reasons, and im sure this is not really new. the colombian civil war is one of the longest ongoin armed conflicts on the planet...

[--Navarro--]

If they have guns and will attempt to kill or apprehend members of FARC, then they are military targets. Psychopathy has nothing to do with militant struggle and class warfare, that's an ideology which you can't prove or justify - fed to you by pacifists and ideologues of the bourgeois state.

then the kids Farc abuse sexually, the peasants they left without legs, the civilian women they enslave, must be "military targets" too. (and I'm being literal, they actually do such things on a common basis).


Don't interpret what I'm about to say as advocating cop-killing, but how the fuck can you condemn the concept of cop-killing?

Don't shit yourself; life is neither sacred nor special.

for all Colombians facing the conflict it is sacred. Only for totally oblivious people (like you all) about what is happening here and about the real social struggle here, it can not be sacred.


They target the organisation not the individual. Didn't Lenin say something about the police not being part of the proletariat?

that doesn't mean much, which organization they target and which one they pretend to be?

Sounds like one of those structural functionalist theories from the XIX century.

[Lensky]

Provide sources, please.

[Lensky]

Dismissing revolutionary third world movements through a humanitarian perspective usually comes from english speakers parroting articles published specifically for an English (specifically American) audience.

[Comrade Jacob]

--Navarro-- I think you've bought into some really weak slanderous propaganda, unless you have credible sources of course.

[PhoenixAsh]

I like how you argue being a cop is just a job but being FARC is evil


Anyways...obviously being a cop isn't just a job. It is a job that is directly responsible for maintaining capitalism, oppression and exploitation. Given that fact whether or not the FARC is revolutionary or not has no bearing on the fact that them killing cops is killing direct instruments of the capitalist system and the tools of the ruling class...which is never a bad thing.

[PhoenixAsh]

Just a job


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[Sea]

for all Colombians facing the conflict it is sacred. Only for totally oblivious people (like you all) about what is happening here and about the real social struggle here, it can not be sacred.I agree with Things Make People Happy on this one.

If you've found a way to measure sacredness (and your sacrometer goes off the charts around living things) I'd love to hear about it. Until such a time as you can provide charts that verify the crap you spew, the rest of us, the "oblivious people", will content ourselves with our previous abandonment of such superstitions.

[ckaihatsu]

Protest against joint U.S./Colombia military exercise in Arizona

By Jafe Arnoldski

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Tucson, AZ - 20 anti-war protesters confronted the arrival of Colombian Air Force and Special Forces troops at a U.S- led military exercise near Tucson, May 4. The anti-war activists chanted, “Stop the U.S.-funded war in Colombia!” and “50 years of war is enough!”

The Colombian military came to practice under U.S. and NATO forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Outside the base, on a busy street corner, speakers denounced U.S. military intervention, the more than $8 billion spent by the U.S. government in repressing democracy and human rights, and the significance of the ongoing peace process between the revolutionary FARC and the Colombian government. In recent years Colombian officers, trained at Fort Benning in Georgia, were caught murdering civilian day laborers and claiming they were revolutionary fighters of the FARC. At least 1800 young men died this way.

Tucson anti-war activist Jim Byrne shared, "We are here to denounce the collaboration of the NATO militaries during their training - for maintaining war and violence. We oppose the disgusting trend of the militarization of state and local police, who more and more look like professional armies. These police-armies are used against Chicano, African-American, and other oppressed people here, so that Arizona feels like the Terrordome!"

Ana Maria Vasquez from Colombia explained, "I am 48 years old and I've never known peace in my country. We are all here today in solidarity to ensure the end of the war so that Colombians can live without war, murder, repression and fear."

Protesters vowed to continue their international solidarity with the Colombian people. Jim Byrne said, "We in the U.S. must develop alliances with all those seeking peace and justice for the people of Colombia. Labor unions like the United Steel Workers, faith organizations and social justice groups must demand the U.S. government stop financing, arming and supporting the militarization of Latin America and the repression of its peoples."

Video of the protest is being shared with unions, human rights organizations and the Colombian democratic movement Marcha Patriotica. The Alliance for Global Justice organized the protest to build solidarity between the U.S. and Colombian working people in struggling for peace and democracy. Tucson Students for a Democratic Society, Occupy Tucson and local churches endorsed the rally.

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[--Navarro--]

Just a job

Self-quote: These abuses must be punished but most policemen in Colombia aren't responsible for them (meaning, only a tiny minority do the things that are seen on the videos).



Dismissing revolutionary third world movements through a humanitarian perspective usually comes from english speakers parroting articles published specifically for an English (specifically American) audience.

it's the exact oppossite too, frequently. Promoting revolutionary third world movements usually comes from english speakers parroting articles published specifically for an English audience. In both cases, most of these people doesn't actually know about these revolutionary movements directly.





If you've found a way to measure sacredness (and your sacrometer goes off the charts around living things) I'd love to hear about it. Until such a time as you can provide charts that verify the crap you spew, the rest of us, the "oblivious people", will content ourselves with our previous abandonment of such superstitions.

it's very funny the condescending tone you use, considering you have actually never been fighting side to side with Farc against the Colombian government, you have never been to any kind of revolutionary struggle in real life, risking your own life and willing to take other's lifes. Revolutionaries from Facebook...

I'm atheist, pro-abortion, etc etc. But I know from first hand what losing your ones (and this war itself) means for a lot of people involved in the Colombian civil war. I don't know if life is sacred for them, but it certainly seems "a little bit" more significant for them than Farc drug business "revolution".

being FARC is evil

Not what I tried to say. Most Farc recruits are peasants forced to enlist by multiple reasons, most of them related to violence and opression exerted over them. And I don't care about "evil", Farc leaders are just corrupt, deluded, oppresive, and ve(ee)ry cynical/hypocrite people



Anyways...obviously being a cop isn't just a job. It is a job that is directly responsible for maintaining capitalism, oppression and exploitation. I'm pretty sure that you (and most people on this forum) do a lot of things on a daily basis that are directly or indirectly responsible for "maintaing capitalism, oppresion and explotation". And I wouldn't say you all deserve to be murdered for that.

I'll leave the sources thing for later, I have to go now.

[adipocere]

I'll leave the sources thing for later, I have to go now.

Why are you even here Navarro? You're not a leftist - you're reactionary to the bone. You only pipe up to talk about what a fantastic democracy Colombia is, to bash the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and to denounce FARC.


Ugh someone restrict this guy to OI.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I'm pretty sure that you (and most people on this forum) do a lot of things on a daily basis that are directly or indirectly responsible for "maintaining capitalism, oppresion and explotation". And I wouldn't say you all deserve to be murdered for that.

The condemnation of cops isn't based on lifestylism, though. It's one thing to have to engage with the capitalist system and use food, shelter and other things produced in a capitalist society (if we were to reject all of that based on lifestylism we would have no capacity to challenge the system because we'd all be living in primitivist cooperatives in caves somewhere). It's quite another to act as an instrument in the employ of the bourgeois state which uses direct physical assault or otherwise intimidation tactics against leftists standing opposed to the system. The comparison is quite frankly, insulting. Would you have told the victims at Kent State that buying clothes produced in extremely exploitative capitalism made them equally as bad as active oppressors? If so, then we're all pretty bourgeois, or immoral if you prefer, anyway and the moral question is moot except for the fact that some people also act in ways opposed to the status quo, and others act to maintain it. In any case, this does nothing to show such lifestyle-oriented criticisms would apply to FARC.

[ckaihatsu]

Monsanto makes war in Colombia

Commentary by Tom Burke

Grand Rapids, MI - Many are out marching and protesting Monsanto this spring, demanding food be healthy and safe, that Monsanto products be labeled as GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and insisting that one corporation should not control the entire seed supply or corner the market. Unions and immigrant rights groups are demanding protections and decent pay for farm workers who use Monsanto products in the fields.

It is also important to know that Monsanto makes war in Colombia and it needs to stop. Monsanto is making the lives of poor peasant farmers in Colombia miserable, forcing hundreds of thousands to abandon their small plots of land by killing the crops on which they survive. Monsanto participates directly in the U.S. war on Colombia’s poor peasant farmers by providing the deadly “Ultra” versions of Roundup that is used to destroy their crops.

The U.S. government is conducting a war in Colombia and has spent over $8 billion on it since year 2000. Started under Clinton and Gore, the U.S. Southern Command directs the war against left-wing rebel groups and is in charge of the Colombian Armed Forces. However the involvement of Monsanto is less well known. The U.S. counterinsurgency war includes chemical warfare, in the form of private military companies like DynCorp International flying over and spraying the crops and fields of poor peasant farmers in areas where the rebel insurgency is strongest. Farmers living in areas where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are well organized are way more likely to have their crops sprayed with Monsanto products than the areas under the control of large landowners, narco-traffickers, or multi-national mineral corporations.

Monsanto is a war profiteer. Monsanto is the company contracted by the U.S. military for the glyphosate sprayed on Colombian peasants’ crops. It is the same chemical as Roundup in much, much stronger concentrations. Monsanto makes huge profits from these U.S. military contracts. It has been going on since at least 1978.

The Roundup is sprayed from planes, often drifts wide of its target, kills all sorts of crops and pollutes the ponds, lakes and rivers of Colombia. The first plants to grow back are the hardy coca plants - the original excuse for spraying, but food crops and fruit trees are ruined and do not return so easily. Thousands of people suffer skin and respiratory problems, there are reports of asthmatic children dying and animals poisoned and killed. The lives of tens of thousands are ruined on a yearly basis.

The U.S. ‘war on drugs’ in Colombia is a lie. There is no change in drug production after decades. The aerial spraying is part of U.S. war strategy. Monsanto’s Roundup being sprayed targets and hurts the poor peasant farmers in rebellion. It harms the base of support of the rebels and gives Colombia the largest displaced person population in the world - more than in Iraq during most of the U.S. war and occupation. It also harms the ‘lungs of the world’ - the Amazon forests are being poisoned and forests are being cut down as farmers move to new land. Here at home, the phony war on drugs imprisons hundreds of thousands of African American, Chicano and working class youth, punishing instead of treating or rehabilitating, and making them second-class citizens for life.

Monsanto delivers nothing but poverty, misery, and death to Colombian farmers, children and their animals. We need to oppose Monsanto selling Roundup to be sprayed on a mass scale in Colombia. Currently, the Colombian government wants to end the program, because it does not work. The U.S. government demands it continue. We need to support Colombian farmers and say: “No more Monsanto fumigations! No to U.S. war in Colombia!”

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[ckaihatsu]

Utah march against Monsanto

By Derek Clark

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Salt Lake City, UT – Over 200 activists and community members gathered at the state capitol, May 24, to join with cities across the country by rallying against the Monsanto Corporation. People assembled on the steps of the capitol despite the rain to listen to a number of speakers including Craig Bowden, Melanie Widerburg-Zucker, Justin Danneman, Lorena Apgar Hansen and Jonathan Hansen. People spoke of the effects that Monsanto has across the globe and locally on families and communities.

The keynote speaker for the event was former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Anderson gave a fiery speech on the effects of corporate interests in the U.S. and nailed former Monsanto VP and lobbyist Michael Taylor who is now head of the FDA. Anderson stated, “We don’t need a government of the rich, we need a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Musicians Michael Cundick and Josh Blakesley also performed for the crowd.

Gregory Lucero of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization was passing out a Fight Back! commentary describing Monsanto’s role in the U.S. dirty war in Colombia. Lucero said, “The U.S. government has spent over $8 billion since the year 2000 on war in Colombia. Monsanto is the company contracted by the U.S. military to spray Roundup chemicals on Colombian peasants’ crops under the guise of a 'war on drugs', decimating the countryside. This contributes to hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Colombia. We need to support Colombian farmers and say, 'No more Monsanto fumigations. No to U.S. war in Colombia!' We’re out here to show our solidarity with the Colombian people.”

The crowd then took to the streets in a militant manner, despite a police presence, marching from the capitol to the County Building. The large group raised their signs and banners as they walked through traffic chanting “Monsanto against the wall, no more GMO’s at all” and “Monsanto no more, we won’t fund your secret war!” Protest leaders ended the protest with calls for the people of Salt Lake City to continue organizing and fighting back.

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[--Navarro--]

So much rethorical peroration. Colombians have actually experienced it, decades of violence against everyone (cops, civilians, rebels...), and the people that supports armed struggle or violence as a valid mean never was so minoritary. If you ever come here, you will find two kinds of people: the ones disgusted and dissapointed with so much pointless violence, and the ones that approve violence, but against rebel groups, in order to finnish them once and for all. And most of these are just as tired of war and violence as the former. You can even do the test, and ask on any Colombian forum/internet community of any kind about the subject. I'm completely sure that virtually no one will show support to armed struggle in the context of today's Colombia.

I feel unease using an argument that may sound demagogic, but it's actually very true. At the end, it's the reality, the vivid experience of a people who have actually witnessed the use of violence and murder as a (pretended) mean to an end, and not the opinion of some edgy kids pretending to know about the problems and the needs of a country that they can't even point out in a map. People that never has been in a situation of real armed struggle.

[--Navarro--]

Why are you even here Navarro? You're not a leftist - you're reactionary to the bone.


I probably have some of it, and I'm ok with it. I'm not brainwashed by dogmatism (dogmatic leftism in this case) anymore, as I was in my college years as an anthropology student. I don't care about tags.

Based Nicolás Gómez Dávila.




You only pipe up to talk about what a fantastic democracy Colombia is, to bash the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and to denounce FARC.


Colombia is as democratic as any other of the so called democratic country of the World (wether it is good or bad). Prove me wrong.

Bolivarian "revolution" is a sad joke, and both Chavez and Maduro were and are authoritarian kleptocrats. They embody the opposite of any revolutionary ideal.

Farc leaders are saddist, cynical psychopats and -for the most part- child abusers.



Ugh someone restrict this guy to OI.

Do you have the same exact point view and ideology as the rest of people on this forum? If not, you have an opposing view to them, as I do. We all have "opposing views".

[DOOM]

They target the organisation not the individual. Didn't Lenin say something about the police not being part of the proletariat?

Because killing random cops is totally targeting the organisation and revolutionary.

I don't see any justification for randomly killing a cop for being a cop. This is just sick.

[PhoenixAsh]

Self-quote: These abuses must be punished but most policemen in Colombia aren't responsible for them (meaning, only a tiny minority do the things that are seen on the videos).

Actually the abuses won't be punished because they are directed by the state through their police force which is the primary function of the police force: protecting the state.

There is no tiny minority here...these are the cops. Police violence is wide spread in Colombia. ESMAD especially is notorious for this violence.

Police are a state instrument. Their actions are sanctioned state policy and the policy will carry out the states orders if directed to do so. This is their primary function.


I'm pretty sure that you (and most people on this forum) do a lot of things on a daily basis that are directly or indirectly responsible for "maintaing capitalism, oppresion and explotation". And I wouldn't say you all deserve to be murdered for that.

I'll leave the sources thing for later, I have to go now.

You don't seem to understand.

The specific function of the police is to maintain the state, its economy and its economic elite and enforcing and advancing their interests. This means that they directly oppose working class and peasant interests per extent of their sole base for existence and are primarily posed to perpetuate and continue working class and peasant exploitation by the economic elite.

What you see in the video's is the police performing this primary task. These are not "excesses" this is their actual reason for existing.

[adipocere]

But why are you here Navarro? You didn't answer that question.

[--Navarro--]

Actually the abuses won't be punished because they are directed by the state through their police force which is the primary function of the police force: protecting the state.


they ARE punished, I know from first hand most of these cops faced jail.


There is no tiny minority here...these are the cops. Police violence is wide spread in Colombia. ESMAD especially is notorious for this violence.
by "widespread" do you mean "pretty much every cop does that"?. Do you have any source at all to back such claim?



Police are a state instrument. Their actions are sanctioned state policy and the policy will carry out the states orders if directed to do so. This is their primary function.

The specific function of the police is to maintain the state, its economy and its economic elite and enforcing and advancing their interests. This means that they directly oppose working class and peasant interests per extent of their sole base for existence and are primarily posed to perpetuate and continue working class and peasant exploitation by the economic elite.
interesting. Someone using structural-functionalist cathegories of analysis 50 years after functionalism was abandoned.