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The Tragic Assassination of Colombia’s Sports Hero Patrón, Lover of Football and His Afro-Colombian Community

By Vijay Prashad and Zoe PC Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football…

Colombia marches for life and for Peace

By Diana Hernández (translation Pressenza London) On Tuesday, August 7, the right-wing and Uribe presidency of Colombia was assumed by Iván Duque, in the midst of a wave of murders of social and union leaders that has been taking place…

Unsealed documents show Pinochet ‘directly’ involved in Capitol Hill assassinations

Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt became ‘symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship’ by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for Common Dreams Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand…

South Africa’s political assassinations continue

South Africa-Reports reveal that although there are no official statistics of political assassinations in the country,  we are reliably told that there are about 400 unregistered political assassinations’ cases.These political assassinations have been committed after 1994, in the new political…