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Colombia Workshops at The US Social Forum
If you are going to the US Social Forum in Detroit we have three Colombia workshops that the Colombia Action Network is helping build. If you are going to the US Social Forum, we'd love to see you there.
Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarism
Wed, 6/23/2010 - 1:00pm - 5:30 pm
Cobo Hall: D3-19
1 Washington Blvd
The Social Movements and Revolution in Colombia: How did Ricardo Palmera become a prisoner of the U.S. Empire?
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Wayne State University, Prentis 15, at 5201 Cass Ave.
No to U.S. Bases in Colombia! No to U.S. Intervention!
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wayne State University, Old Main 1115, at 4841 Cass Ave.
Colombia: Soldiers Accused of Extrajudicial Killings Freed
"In the case of the 11 men from Soacha, their bodies showed up in morgues or mass graves hundreds of km from Bogotá just a few days after they left or went missing from their homes. And although they were wearing civilian clothes when they set out for their supposed new jobs, their bodies were found dressed in FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla fatigues..."
Helda Martínez
SOACHA, Colombia, Jan 13 (IPS) - Over the last two weeks, 31 Colombian soldiers accused of the forced disappearance and murder of 11 young men from the poor Bogotá suburb of Soacha have been released from prison on the grounds that they were not formally indicted within 90 days of their arrest, as established by Colombian law. Of the 42 members of the Colombian army implicated in what is known here as the "Soacha case", 18 were released between Dec. 30 and Jan. 7, six on Tuesday Jan. 12 and seven more on Wednesday Jan. 13.
