What's going on in Colombia and how the president, army and the police fight against the narco-mafia.
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Assualt on an HCL Cocaine Lab. Deep in the jungles of Colombia Tim and Will of Travel the Road insert into a rebel controlled zone with Colombian Special Forces to destory a sophisticated cocaine labratory.
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Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure documents what many believe to be dangerous hypocrisy on the part of the American government. The film gives particular attention to the reasons behind the drug trade (Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine exporter), which include illegal trade funded by radicals, the corrupt government, and the simple fact that most farmers harvest coca because they can't survive on the profits of legitimate food crops. Ungerman also explores the link to America's notorious School of the Americas in Georgia and how targeted aerial fumigation has destroyed perfectly legal natural resources in the mission to eradicate drug crops. The film concludes that the US military-industrial complex is cashing in on the violence they themselves perpetrate, while doing little to actually stem cocaine production peacenowar.net
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June 1995 Colombia's rural peasants are caught in a savage drugs war, forced to produce narcotics through economic despair. We investigate this deadly battle, with daring access to major and minor players and exclusive archive footage. Following the capture of the Cali cocaine 'cartel' leader, a retaliation bomb is detonated in Medellin. Removing Cali cartel leaders has done nothing to halt the drug trade. In Cali, 'Pepe', a drug trafficker, makes $4000 a month while a slum family tells the tragic story of their cocaine-courier father. Focusing on the government's renewed fight against drugs under threat of US sanctions, we document the strong-arm tactics of both the army and guerrilla groups. Bloodstained bodies of 13 peasant growers are lined up at a military base - the army dismisses them as vermin. In the fields of a typical coca campesino, protected by guerrilla units, growers process their haul. Evidence of government fumigation of illicit crops which, in turn, encourages farmers to double their cultivation. The result is massive deforestation. Indigenous Indians have little hope in the escalating feud ravaging Colombia.
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Documentary about the colombian armed conflict.
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After nearly five decades of war, the Colombian government appears to have dealt a major blow to FARC, the Marxist rebel group. Defence ministry sources said the group's top commander, Alfonso Cano, was killed in a military raid on Friday. Cano, who became FARC's leader in 2008, had a $5m bounty on his head. Al Jazeera's Roger Wilkison reports.
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Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com For downloads and more information, visit: www.journeyman.tv After years of declining popularity, cocaine is once again the drug of choice. But what's the real cost of 'Colombia's finest'? Every gram of cocaine produced has been watered with the blood of forty years of civil war. It's a war that kills hundreds of thousands every year, displaces countless more and causes untold misery. Offering exceptional access to the major players, this is a fresh and moving look at one of the world's forgotten conflicts. June 2004
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February 2010 Possibly the most downplayed conflict of today, the forty-year-old Colombian war shows no signs of ceasing. Its fed by a billion dollar drug trade, political division and an international land battle. The conflict is no longer about ideology. Its a battle of powers, a battle for territory. It began as a war between left-wing guerrillas - hoping to establish a communist state and right-wing paramilitary groups funded by the wealthy. Yet both sides lost support when the violence intensified. I lost my entire family, says Anna, whose town was hit by forty guerrilla bombs. Those who werent killed were evicted from valuable land and sent to urban slums. Accion Social the governments aid program for the displaced - has done little to help. And the USs half a billion dollars a year in aid may have indirectly funded the paramilitary death squads associated with President Uribe. With cocaine production still on the rise and much of the land claimed by paramilitary groups now used by international agribusinesses, could there be a financial incentive for the ongoing war? Paramillary narco-trafficking has never ended, because the government is supporting them. And as an even more violent paramilitary rise to claim their piece of the profits, its only the 4 million displaced Columbians, who stand to lose.
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After years of declining popularity, cocaine is once again the drug of choice. But what's the real cost of 'Colombia's finest'? Every gram of cocaine produced has been watered with the blood of forty years of civil war. It's a war that kills hundreds of thousands every year, displaces countless more and causes untold misery. Offering exceptional access to the major players, this is a fresh and moving look at one of the world's forgotten conflicts.
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The Story of an ex-Guerrilla: In the first of a two-part series, we speak with Yezid Arteta about his motivations to join the guerrilla struggle, his experience as a guerrilla fighter, his time in prison and his decision to dedicate himself to the promotion of peace in Colombia.
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The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels fighting each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces seeking to combat drug trafficking. However, the government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence that was raging between different rival drug cartels in Mexico before any military intervention was made.[27] In addition, the Mexican government has claimed that their primary focus is on dismantling the powerful drug cartels, rather than on drug trafficking prevention, which is left to US functionaries. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for several decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States.[31] Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. The US Department of Justice estimates that wholesale earnings from illicit drug sales range from $13.6 billion to $48.4 billion annually. Given its geographic location, Mexico has long been used as a staging and transshipment point for narcotics, illegal immigrants and contraband destined for US markets from Mexico, South America and elsewhere. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Colombia's Pablo Escobar was the ...
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Thousands of victims of violence march in Bogota tell warlords they want an end to the conflict More news at therealnews.com
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The Colombian city of Medellin has seen a resurgence of deadly violence that has brought back memories of its notorious drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar. Since the beginning of last year, more than a thousand people have been killed in confrontations between street gangs working for rival drug cartels. Sadly, most of the victims fit the same profile - young men between the ages of 18 and 26. From Medellin, Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo has this report.
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Juan Manuel Santos will be sworn in as Colombia's new president on Saturday. He's promising to continue the anti-drugs policy of his predecessor, but critics say that's not working, and a new approach is needed. Teresa Bo reports from Cauca on why.
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MADRE sister organization Taller de Vida provides life-changing support to former child soldiers and children at risk of becoming child soldiers in Colombia. Taller de Vida works to provide emotional healing by giving the victims of political violence a voice through music, dance, film and theater, so that they can overcome their trauma.
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"Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply "Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate." Last month, at the Cato Institute's "Ending the Global War on Drugs" conference, Bhattacharji's sentiments were echoed by ex-drug czars, cops, politicians, intellectuals, liberal and conservative journalists, and even the former President of Brazil. Reason.tv attended the event and spoke with a number of the featured speakers, including: Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Speaker of the House of Deputies, Uruguay Leigh Maddox, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition; University of Maryland School of Law Enrique Gomez Hurtado, former Senator, Colombia Larry Campbell, Senator, Canada Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner, India Eric Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation Harry G. Levine, Queens College (NY) Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Cato Institute About 6.15 minutes. Produced and Edited by Anthony L. Fisher. Camera by Joshua Swain, with help from Seth McKelvey. Graphics by Meredith Bragg. Visit Reason.tv for downloadable versions, and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.
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maldito y destructivo metal colombiano...
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Battle in Colombia's Cauca between the military and FARC rebels. By Toby Muse tobymuse@hotmail.com
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Latin Pulse brings you this episode of the Colombian TV show Contravía, where journalist Hollman Morris and his team travel to a remote community in Southern Colombia to eat, sleep and live with the Nasa Indians through a period of fear, displacement and anguish. With their homes turned into battlegrounds, the indigenous community around Toribío continue their peaceful resistance to the invasion of free trade, armies and guerrillas. Morris combines this inside experience with personal testimonies from all sides, for a transparent exploration of Colombia's drawn-out conflict. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's organization, The Foundation for a New Iberian-American Journalism, awarded Contravía's episode Toribío its highest prize in 2007, for their efforts to raise visibility for the victims of war in a censored and bellicose media environment. For more information on the Colombian journalistic TV show Contravia, you can visit: www.contravia.tv For more information on the work of Hollman Morris and other independent journalists in Colombia, watch our previous show: Colombia: Stories That Kill.
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