Colombian protesters dial back blockades to promote talks 2 minutes read
By Klarem Valoyes and Irene Escudero
Bogota, Jun 1 (EFE).- The self-proclaimed National Strike Committee (CNP) said Tuesday that some of the blockades mounted to put pressure on Colombia’s right-wing government since the start of a popular mobilization on April 28 are being dismantled as a goodwill gesture to advance dialogue.
Yet some of the people on the front lines of the blockades reject the CNP’s claim to speak for them and appear disinclined to go along with the proclaimed “de-escalation.”
“There are more than 40 ‘points of resistance’ that have been suspended thanks to the de-escalation,” the leader of the Fecode teachers union, Nelson Alarcon, said. “Today, therefore, the national government has no excuse to say that it won’t sign accords.”
Termina segunda reunión entre el Comité del Paro y el Gobierno
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Gobierno y Comité del Paro se reúnen este domingo, así avanza la jornada
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February 15, 2021
Ranchers’ federation chief Jose Felix Lafaurie has every reasons to worry. The evidence indicating the may be one of Colombia’s biggest crooks is becoming difficult to ignore.
The Fedegan director would like to believe he’s a legitimate businessman, the husband of an honorable senator and the friend of “the greatest Colombian ever,” former President Alvaro Uribe.
The alleged terrorism sponsor is delusional like that.
Lafaurie previously claimed that massacre victims were guerrillas, that members of his terrorism support group never assassinated war victims and most recently that teachers were converting school children into communists.
“Again Lafaurie is putting a tombstone on the teachers,” their union President Nelson Alarcon said Saturday after the rancher’s chief latest conspiracy theory and the multiple assassinations of school teachers.