#NewWorldReport: Colombia Border War. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG
Sep 17, 2021, 12:28 AM
Photo: FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002)
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#NewWorldReport: Colombia Border War. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-5-soldiers-killed-6-injured-in-guerrilla-attack/
. . . From the 1970s to the 1990s the whirlwind unleashed by the United Fruit Company converged with the cyclonic forces of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Making things worse, the cocaine boom in the 1980s exacerbated the escalating spiral of political violence. The press started calling Urabá the “red corner” of Colombia, a reference to both the scale of the bloodshed and the unparalleled power of the communist insurgencies. “Urabá, Drowning in Blood” blared a front-page headline of the country’s leading newspaper.¹ An article in a newspaper in Medellín decried the “barbarism” that had seized this “faraway land”
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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor
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#NewWorldReport: Colombia Border War. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-5-soldiers-killed-6-injured-in-guerrilla-attack/
. . . From the 1970s to the 1990s the whirlwind unleashed by the United Fruit Company converged with the cyclonic forces of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Making things worse, the cocaine boom in the 1980s exacerbated the escalating spiral of political violence. The press started calling Urabá the “red corner” of Colombia, a reference to both the scale of the bloodshed and the unparalleled power of the communist insurgencies. “Urabá, Drowning in Blood” blared a front-page headline of the country’s leading newspaper.¹ An article in a newspaper in Medellín decried the “barbarism” that had seized this “faraway land”
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