As the extreme right extends its reach across the continent, there is an urgent need to entrench a political structure to function as a traditional vanguard, recognizing and summarizing the most urgent needs of social majorities and advancing a future social order that, in its very essence, differs from the present order. The key is to hinder the progress of a right that stubbornly insists on maintaining and strengthening the neoliberal model and international relations that are grossly reliant on metropolitan capitalism.
Politics
Tortured and disappeared in 1985: the truth remains hidden
In November 1985, the Palace of Justice in Colombia went up in flames. The then-guerrilla group, M-19, had taken over its facilities and, after confronting the government and military forces, tragedy erupted. The result was almost 100 dead people, with several tortured or disappeared. Eleven cafeteria workers never imagined that it was going to be the last time that they would see their families. Today the truth remains hidden.
Total impunity in violence against journalists
According to reports by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Colombia ranks a dismal 134th on the scale of countries that rates respect for press freedom in the world, rising several places every year. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris The reputable international NGO denounces a harmful environment for journalism […]
Daniel Mendoza and his counter-power journalism
Persecuted, threatened with death and exiled in France, the author of the documentary series “Matarife”, talks about what millions of Colombians keep silent out of fear and what few media outlets reveal. He talks about how there can be no democracy where there is no real journalism and where the media are biased in favour of the government and dedicate themselves to applauding it and sponsoring its crimes.
Colombia: The end of peace, the return to conflict
Five years on, broken promises are the main feature of the peace agreement signed between the government and the FARC guerrillas. President Ivan Duque’s party are doing all they can to de-legitimize it. Money disappears, and useless bureaucracy flourishes in what many say is a mafia state.