COLOMBIA: A Country in Flight
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Analysis by Javier Darío Restrepo
BOGOTÁ, Aug 12 (IPS) – While the street sweepers clean up huge piles of rubbish in the Tercer Milenio park in the centre of the Colombian capital, young police officers have been posted there to prevent any more people displaced from their rural [...]
COLOMBIA: Women Lead Opposition to Gold Mine
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Helda Martínez
IBAGUÉ, Colombia, Aug 3 (IPS) – Women in the small Andean town of Cajamarca and the nearby city of Ibagué, in the central-west Colombian province of Tolima, are leading the struggle against a major gold mining venture that threatens to alter their way of [...]
COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Conflict Heating Up – Again
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Humberto Márquez
CARACAS, Jul 31 (IPS) – The latest row between Colombia and Venezuela continues to escalate, prompting Brazil to decide to intervene, in order to head off further incidents or statements that could lead to a rupture of ties between its two neighbours.
Washington, meanwhile, [...]
