Thursday, October 24, 2013

10/24/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan

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▶ Sharing Reflections  ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
 http://youtu.be/rfrT3SKIJn8  ~Pub Oct 24, 2013
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▶ President Obama @BarackObama Speaks on Immigration Reform
http://youtu.be/N2aS6yyx95Q  ~Pub Oct 24, 2013
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Obama urges House Republicans to act on #immigration ~By @SuzGamboa @NBCLatino http://nbclatino.com/2013/10/24/obama-anyone-still-standing-in-way-of-bipartisan-immigration-reform-should-explain-why/
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Latinos apply their clout on debt, immigration, health ~By @SuzGamboa @NBCLatino
http://nbclatino.com/2013/10/23/latinos-apply-their-clout-on-debt-immigration-health/
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Republicans' Plan For Piecemeal #Immigration Reform Is 'A Fallacy,' House Democrat Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/republicans-immigration-reform_n_4150703.html
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10/24/2013 Obama renews immigration call, but ignores deportation crisis » @PeoplesWorld
http://peoplesworld.org/obama-renews-immigration-call-but-ignores-deportation-crisis/
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Latin American Clowns Dissociate Themselves From Drug Lord Slaying @Truthdig:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/latin_american_clowns_dissociate_themselves_from_druglord_murder_20131024
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Latinos apply their clout on debt, immigration, health ~By @SuzGamboa @NBCLatino
http://nbclatino.com/2013/10/23/latinos-apply-their-clout-on-debt-immigration-health/
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Pepsi, Nestle, Coca Cola Revealed as Big Money Behind GMO Labeling Fight
~via @commondreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/23-4
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10/23/2013  Demonstrators Across U.S. Protest 'Epidemic Of Police Brutality' 
~via @HuffPostLA  NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/protests-police-brutality_n_4151085.html
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10/23/2013  Dominican Citizenship Ruling Leaves Many Living In Fear @LatinoVoices
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/dominican-citizenship-rul_n_4148771.html
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Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Newest Gig Could Pose Herbalife Conflict
~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/10/23/former-la-mayor-antonio-villaraigosa-newest-gig-could-pose-herbalife-conflict/
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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 21: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and will.i.am announce partnership with Americans Promoting Study Abroad and Major Beijing Concert to benefit Study Abroad at Mendez Learning Center on November 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for BGR) 2011 Getty Images)
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10/23/2013  U.S., Panama Announce Joint Asset Sharing Agreement After Major Money Laundering Bust ~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/23/us-and-panama-announce-joint-asset-sharing-agreement-after-major-money/
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10/22/2013  Overview of RCMP deployment against Mi’kmaq blockade, Oct 17, 2013 | Warrior Publications ~via @indigenous_news
http://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/overview-of-police-tactics-used-in-assaulting-blockades/
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Not Delta farce, but an RCMP K9 unit attempting to intimidate protesters, Oct 17, 2013.
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RCMP ERT members present on Oct 17, 2013.  They are armed with C8 carbine variants of the M16A2 rifle as well as 9mm pistols.
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At some point, the ‘soft hats” went and got their shields and 3 foot long riot batons, perhaps even out of that cargo truck in the background
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Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Conducts Major Sweep, ACLU Says It Violates Court Orders
~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/10/22/arizona-sheriff-arpaio-conducts-major-sweep-aclu-says-it-violates-court-orders/
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10/22/2013  Mexico: NSA Probe Should Be Widened To Include Alleged Spying On President http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/mexico-nsa-probe_n_4144621.html
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Mexico's President Felipe Calderon raises his glass during his last state dinner in Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades returns to power Saturday with a president from a new generation to govern a country that has changed dramatically in the 12 years since the Institutional Revolutionary Party last held the top post. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)| AP
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10/22/013  Who Is The National Latino Leader? Most Hispanics Say There Is Not One, Survey Finds ~via @FoxNewsLatino 
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/10/22/who-is-national-latino-leader-most-hispanics-say-there-is-not-one-survey-finds/
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Mexico's Top Diplomat: Obama Will Order Probe Of Alleged Hacking Into Presidential Email
~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/22/obama-promises-mexico-probe-into-us-alleged-spying-on-presidential-email/
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Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade during a news conference at the Mexican U.N. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013.(ap)
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#Uruguay To Become First Country To Regulate Production, Distribution And Sale Of Pot ~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/22/uruguay-plans-to-sell-marijuana-for-1-per-gram-starting-next-year/
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10/22/2013 Americans Vastly Overestimate How Diverse the Country Really Is
~By @emilymbadger  ~via  @AtlanticCities
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/10/americans-vastly-overestimate-how-diverse-country-really/7320/
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10/22/2013  Texas: Mayoral candidates talk about #Latino activism, education, southeast Midland during forum @mwtnews
http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_87d8f74c-3b90-11e3-a5f7-001a4bcf887a.html
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10/21/2013  Ex-Patients Police Mexico’s Mental Health System @NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/world/americas/ex-patients-police-mexicos-mental-health-system.html
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A psychiatric hospital in Mexico. A group of former patients at mental health facilities is calling attention to abuse and neglect at Mexican institutions.
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The Chúhcan collective is an organization of people with psychiatric disorders who advocate for the mentally ill
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

10/22/2013 #Aztlan-Network-News Blog ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan

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10/22/2013  #Aztlan-Network-News Blog ~via @Peta_de_Aztlan
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10/22/2013  Luis Gutierrez, Fierce Fighter For Immigration Reform  @LatinoVoices
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House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)| AP
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27 Reasons Why U.S. Shouldn't Lead War On Drugs ~via  @LatinoVoices
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Because the U.S. Won't Control The Flow Of Guns Into Latin America
Mexican authorities seized almost 70,000 weapons of U.S. origin from 2007 to 2011. In 2004, the U.S. Congress declined to renew a 10-year ban on the sale of assault weapons. They quickly became the guns of choice for Mexican drug cartels.
Some 60,000 people have died in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón launched a military assault on the cartels in 2006.c/s

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Arizona Refuses To Drop Lawsuit Against In-State Tuition For DACA Students
~via @LatinoVoices
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/arizona-in-state-tuition-daca_n_4142889.html
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10/22/2013  Where Are Black and Latino People in NYC’s ‘Silicon Alley’?  @Colorlines
http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/10/where_are_people_of_color_in_nycs_silicon_alley.html
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10/22/2013  Grenada: Remembering ‘A Lovely Little War’ ~By Bill Bigelow @ZinnEdProject ~via @commondreams
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/22-2#
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BOOK: The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration ~By Bill Bigelow ~ http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9780942961317
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10/22/2013  Texas Voter ID Law Officially Takes Effect  @LatinoVoices http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/texas-voter-id-law-into-effect_n_4138138.html
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10/22/2013 Smithsonian Latino Center Fellows: Latino History Is Part of American History
~via @LatinoVoices
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/national-trust-for-historic-preservation/smithsonian-latino-center_b_4142452.html
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10/22/2013 As Hurricane Raymond Looms, Some Mexicans Evacuate Storm-Battered Areas
~via @FoxNewsLatino http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/22/as-hurricane-raymond-looms-some-mexicans-evacuate-storm-battered-areas/
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Mexican army soldiers on duty for emergency relief stand next to villagers as they watch workers reinforce a road with sandbags, not seen, in Acapulco, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. The area is on alert as Hurricane Raymond gained more strength and threatened to hurl heavy rains onto a sodden region already devastated by last month's Tropical Storm Manuel. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez) AP2013
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10/21/2013 Mark Zuckerberg To Host Hackathon For Undocumented Immigrants @LatinoVoices http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/zuckerberg-immigration-ha_n_4138638.html
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., leaves a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Zuckerberg in April announced the formation of an advocacy group, Fwd.us, to push for more visas for skilled immigrant workers. He pressed that cause yesterday in a meeting with Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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10/21/2013 Success Of Bilingual Crossover Films Shows Hollywood's Paying Attention To Latinos ~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2013/10/21/hollywood-paying-attention-to-latino-market-and-it-paying-off/
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10/22/2013 #Mexico: President’s visit opens gateway to Latin America, says envoy
~via @IrishTimes 
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/president-s-visit-opens-gateway-to-latin-america-says-envoy-1.1568504
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Ambassador of Mexico, Carlos Garcia de Alba (right) pictured at the formal launch of November’s ‘A Taste of Mexico’ with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Oisin Quinn (left) and mariachi Antonio Garcia-Lopez. Photograph: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
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Tar Sands Protesters Commandeer Public Meeting, Energy Officials Run for the Door
~via @therealnews
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▶ Honduras' banana coast: ripe for development?  @therealnews
http://youtu.be/9muyLAa3rRc  ~Pub Oct 21, 2013
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#Honduras' Banana Coast: Ripe for Development? ~via @therealnews
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10893
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10/21/2013  Petrobras-led group wins #Brazil oil auction with minimum bid via @reuters http://reut.rs/182SvJ2
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National Force soldiers fire rubber bullets during clashes with demonstrators near Hotel Windsor, where the auction for Libra offshore oilfield will take place, in Rio de Janeiro October 21, 2013.
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Demonstrators cross a security line before a clash with National Force soldiers on Barra da Tijuca beach near the Hotel Windsor, where the auction for Libra offshore oilfield will take place, in Rio de Janeiro October 21, 2013
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National Force soldiers fire teargas during clashes with demonstrators near Hotel Windsor, where the auction for Libra offshore oilfield will take place, in Rio de Janeiro October 21, 2013.
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10/21/2013  Political party official slain in El Salvador @FoxNewsLatino http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/21/political-party-official-slain-in-el-salvador/
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10/21/2013  Be "rational" and end embargo, Cuba urges U.S. ~via @FoxNewsLatino
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/21/be-rational-and-end-embargo-cuba-urges-us/
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10/20/2013  Voting war: Is it race or is it politics? ~via @LatinoPolitico
http://latinotimes.com/politics/785365-voting-war-is-it-race-or-is-it-politics.html
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10/21/2013  Comment: This article involves North Carolina, though it may have implications in other sectors of the country. In relation to Voting, it should be accepted that it is natural and logical for folks to have ID in the first place. Why give racist reactionaries more ammo?

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redrawing of congressional district lines with the conscious intention of favoring certain demographics.

To make matters worse there is the general apathy of potential voters and the opinion of phony progressives that involvement in any form of electoral politics is irrelevant. It is patent that the U.S.A. is now not an authentic democracy, if it ever was, BUTTT if there is ever to be a true democracy it would require the mass participation of the masses, including personal participation in the realm of electoral politics.

9/19/2012  The Twisted History of Gerrymandering in American Politics ~By Emily Barasch
~via @TheAtlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/the-twisted-history-of-gerrymandering-in-american-politics/262369/

9/19/2012  The League of Dangerous Mapmakers ~By Robert Draper  @TheAtlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-league-of/309084/?single_page=true

Sincerely, Peter S. López aka @Peta_de_Aztlan
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10/20/2013  As Latino businesses grow, organizations provide resources for entrepreneurs  ~via @LatinoTimes
http://latinotimes.com/latinos/786847-as-latino-businesses-grow-organizations-provide-resources-for-entrepreneurs.html
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10/18/2013  #Liberation News Documentary: "No Justice No Peace!" @pslweb
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10/16/2013 Latin America Brings Up Its Dead, Seeking Truth to Help Settle the Past @NYTimes
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President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela with a portrait of Simón Bolívar, whose remains were exhumed in 2010.
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A forensic team in Chile exhumed the poet Pablo Neruda’s body in April.
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Workers transported the coffin of former President Salvador Allende of Chile for exhumation in 2011.
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A gas worker walks from a shale gas drilling rig, on March 25, 2009 in Saint-Edouard-de-Lotbiniere Que.
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10/17/2012  What is shale gas, and why are people protesting against testing for it?  @globaltvnews: http://globalnews.ca/news/908447/understanding-shale-gas/
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A police vehicle is seen in Rexton, N.B. as police began enforcing an injunction to end an ongoing demonstration against shale gas exploration in eastern New Brunswick on Thursday, Oct.17, 2013.
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10/18/2013  Five police cruisers torched, 40 protesters arrested as native anti-fracking rally turns violent @nationalpost
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/17/new-brunswick-shale-gas-protesters-pepper-sprayed-police-cars-reportedly-set-on-fire/
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10/21/2013  Elsipogtog First Nation criticizes RCMP, promises to keep fighting shale gas
~via @JWongGlobalNews
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10/17/2013  Corpses on the front page boost the circulation of Juarez tabloid  @borderzine http://borderzine.com/2013/10/corpses-on-the-front-page-boost-the-circulation-of-juarez-tabloid/
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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 


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

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