columbian wars

“The U.S. State Department itself has concluded that human rights in Colombia remains poor, that social activists, such as trade unionists, are being killed at an alarming rate, and that they are being killed mostly by paramilitary groups which, as the State Department also concludes, are receiving the active support and collaboration of the very military which the U.S. is funding at record levels.

A notorious example of such tactics, as elaborated in this same report, is the Army's rounding up and detention of 2,000 civilians, including “lost of Saravena's human rights community, as well as many known trade unionists and other social leaders,”; by the 18th Brigade during the traditional fiesta in 2002.

Indeed, as Amnesty International has reported, the violent conflict in Arauca is motivated and fueled by oil interests and the attempt of the Colombian military, with the support of the U.S., to protect these interests. The result is one of the worst human rights situations in the world. People of conscience must ask themselves if they really want our country to be supporting a military in Colombia which is terrorizing the population to protect oil interests. Sadly, this has not even entered into the debate this election year.”

this happened two years ago, and it's just now being released to the public. do you see a problem here, because i do.