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Colombians should accept that its leaders are no longer terrorists
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A STORM that filled Bogotá’s streets with ice on November 1st was the second freakish event of the day in Colombia’s capital. The first took place in a hotel conference room, where the FARC, a guerrilla army turned political party, announced its candidates for presidential and congressional elections to be held in 2018. Before a screen emblazoned with the FARC’s pacific new logo a rose with a red star at its centre its leaders did their best to sound like normal politicians. Imelda Daza, the vice-presidential candidate, promised a “more inclusive model” of government that would overcome poverty, hunger and barriers to education.
The 22-year-old became the 250
th former guerilla fighter to be killed in Colombia since the signing of the 2016 peace accord designed to end the decades-old conflict.
She was reportedly leaving a party with her younger sister, Reina Zabala Mazo, in the early hours of the morning when unknown assailants opened fire, killing the pair.
Ms Mazo was known by the nom de guerre Liliana Estrada during the conflict.
She was part of the ranks which demobilised following an agreement that saw Farc lay down its arms and become a legal political party, the Alternative Revolutionary Force for the Common People also known as Farc.
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Refusal to vaccinate undocumented Venezuelans in Colombia criticized
Refusal to vaccinate undocumented Venezuelans in Colombia criticized
Bogota, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina) Former Colombian President Ernesto Samper raised his voice on Tuesday in support of those who criticize the current government s decision to deny the Covid-19 vaccine to the Venezuelan migrants who do not have a legal status.
Samper gave an idea of the repercussion of the disposition by the Ivan Duque administration after suggesting the United States as a scenario where undocumented Latinos, a population sector consisting of some 11 million people, would be deprived of the vaccine. How about Trump denying Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine to all Latino residents in the US as Duque announced on Monday for the Venezuelans in Colombia? What does @ONUHumanRights think, or what s left of it in Colombia, of this genocidal ultimatum? the former president tweeted.