50% of US oil comes from Latin America. US building military bases in Columbia

Columbia is the only country there that still freely allow the US to militarize within its borders. So the US is building seven new bases there and planning to station nuclear weapons there too.

This is complete madness, dealing with the most thuggish government in the area while deliberately provoking other countries.

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Killing for biofuel

Paramilitaries in Columbia are forcing peasants off their lands, sometimes murdering them, so they can then grow palm oil for export

Charities working with local peasants claim that paramilitary forces in league with biofuel conglomerates – some of them financed by US government subsidies – are forcing families off their land with death threats [...]

Saber rattling

Chavez warns of war with Colombia.

Dead rebel’s laptop shows Chavez is funding rebels, Colombian police say.