Sunday, October 20, 2013

[NetworkAztlan_News] Colombia farmers suspend talks with government, threaten new strikes-Indigenous protesters holding captive 7 members of security forces + More

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News Colombia farmers suspend talks with government, threaten new strikes posted by Taran Volckhausen

Colombia farmers suspend talks with government, threaten new strikes
Colombian farmers announced Thursday plans to leave the negotiating table with the government, with a possible return to protest, after failing to reach any significant agreements in a month and a half of talks over a rural economic crisis.
The announcement comes after farmers sat down with President Juan Manuel Santos last month to end a three week long widespread strike, which shut down highways in much of the country and led to a number of violent clashes with riot police.

MORE: Colombia's strike wave begins with violence and roadblocks
Farm leader Cesar Pachon told media that the government had failed to meet any of the farmers' demands that led to the talks: improve farmers' access to credit, lower prices of supplies, and limit food imports, leading organizers to "break" talks with the government. He said they would announce next week whether or not they would return to the streets for strikes.

MORE: Farmers in southwest and central Colombia agree to lift strike

"We left the table because the government has been pulling our leg the whole time and we don't believe in more promises," said Pachon. "If we must strike again, we will do so… We would rather give our lives on the highway than die of starvation on the farm."
Santos has responded saying the government has been holding up its end of the deal in the negotiations and called the possible return to strike "irresponsible" and "unjustifiable" because of the high economic cost caused by the protests over the summer.

During the August agricultural strikes that drew tens of thousands of protesters, five farmers were killed in clashes with police, while 485 people reportedly were injured. Four farmers disappeared during the protests.

Sources


- See more at: http://colombiareports.co/colombia-farmers-leave-negotiating-table-government/#sthash.VH1o7ArA.dpuf

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Oct 18, 2013

Indigenous protesters holding captive 7 members of security forces

posted by Taran Volckhausen
Indigenous protesters holding captive 7 members of security forces
(Photo: Reuters)
Indigenous protesters taking part in a national strike have captured seven members of Colombia's security forces, who are being held in two separate locations in Colombia, according to a statement by local authorities on Friday.
The government Ombudsman in the western state of Risaralda, Freddy Plaza, says that six of those taken by the indigenous protestors – five uniformed police officers and a reserve soldier - were being held in the municipality of Belen de Umbria.

In addition to calling for the release of the captured government officials in a public address, Plaza pressed protesters to lift roadblocks causing backed-up traffic on highways in the state.

Roadblocks also continued on the Pan-American highway in the southwestern state of Cauca, where protesters were holding a member of the riot police captive. Protesters were also blocking roads in the northern state of Sucre.

The reports of captured government officials comes after Colombian indigenous rights group ONIC condemned on Thursday what they considered excessive police response to protests that left 19 wounded and four arrested during a protest in the Pacific port of Buenaventura, where there is a high concentration of Afro-Colombians.

MORE: Colombia's indigenous decry excessive police force against protesters

Roadblocks (from bottom): Cauca; Belen de Umbria, Risaralda; Sucre 


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- See more at: http://colombiareports.co/indigenous-protesters-holding-captive-7-uniformed-officials/#sthash.viNeVoF0.dpuf
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Oct 18, 2013

Targeted oil pipeline contract workers kidnapped

posted by Daniel Freeman
Targeted oil pipeline contract workers kidnapped
(Photo: Prensa Latina)
Three contractors who have been working on the Caño Limon oil pipeline were kidnapped by armed guerrillas on Thursday. The pipeline has been attacked four times already in October alone.


Topographer Jaime Baron, Carlos Rivera, and driver Pablo Leon were taken from their car while driving in the Arauquita municipality in the state of Arauca, on the Venezuelan border.
Local authorities suspect Colombia's second largest rebel group, The National Liberation Army (ELN), as responsible for the kidnappings, and security has been amplified in the area in an effort to secure the safety of other workers and investigate the kidnapping.
This pipeline and area has been plagued by problems and difficulties for well over a month; however, the situation has escalated in October.

MORE: Northeast Colombia pipeline attacked for 4th time this month
While no guerrilla group has come forward to claim responsibility for these attacks and local police initially suspected the rebel group, FARC, for the attacks,  authorities have turned their sights on the ELN, who are believed to be responsible for the bulk of the attacks against the pipeline.

As of now there is no evidence linking the FARC to these attacks, and there are still only primarily suspicions connecting the ELN as well.


Arauquita, Arauca 


Sources


- See more at: http://colombiareports.co/contractors-repeatedly-attacked-oil-pipeline-kidnapped/#sthash.ynYsji0p.dpuf

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