<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - paramilitaries</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/paramilitaries</link><description>Newsvine - paramilitaries</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:23:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:52:30 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>UAE: Arming up with mercenaries - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English</title>
<description><![CDATA[Eric Prince, CEO of Blackwater world wide and wanted in the United States finds refuge in the UAE where he recently signed a 500 million dollar deal to build a paramilitary army for the Kingdom.  This in order to suppress potential uprisings sweeping the middle east. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amir Carr]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Amir Carr]]></source><link>http://amircarr2000.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/18/6665791-uae-arming-up-with-mercenaries-inside-story-al-jazeera-english</link><guid>http://amircarr2000.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/18/6665791-uae-arming-up-with-mercenaries-inside-story-al-jazeera-english</guid><category>iran</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>revolution</category><category>south-africa</category><category>saudi-arabia</category><category>world-news</category><category>uae</category><category>abu-dhabi</category><category>blackwater</category><category>erik-prince</category><category>international-studies</category><category>eric-prince</category><category>leeds-school</category><category>saudi-peninsula</category><category>kuwait-historical-society</category><category>james-worrall-a</category><category>al-jazeera-iranian</category><category>phyllis-bennis-a</category><category>although-ahmadinejads</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:23:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US banana firm Chiquita hired Colombian paramilitaries, newly released documents reveal</title>
<description><![CDATA["Chiquita's apparent quid pro quo with guerrillas and paramilitaries responsible for countless killings belies the company's 2007 plea deal with the Justice Department," said Michael Evans, NSA's chief researcher on Colombia.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[truthlover]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[truthlover]]></source><link>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/10/6444264-us-banana-firm-chiquita-hired-colombian-paramilitaries-newly-released-documents-reveal</link><guid>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/10/6444264-us-banana-firm-chiquita-hired-colombian-paramilitaries-newly-released-documents-reveal</guid><category>paramilitaries</category><category>state-department</category><category>exports</category><category>world-news</category><category>imports</category><category>chitquita-bananna</category><category>justice-washington-office</category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:35:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Murder Trial in Tucson Shows Rift in Minuteman Border Movement - NYTimes.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know....

I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phinnegan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Phinnegan]]></source><link>http://phinnegan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/11/6032971-murder-trial-in-tucson-shows-rift-in-minuteman-border-movement-nytimescom</link><guid>http://phinnegan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/11/6032971-murder-trial-in-tucson-shows-rift-in-minuteman-border-movement-nytimescom</guid><category>fbi</category><category>congress</category><category>arizona</category><category>immigration</category><category>white-house</category><category>violence</category><category>fraud</category><category>drugs</category><category>immigrants</category><category>democrats</category><category>border</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>homeland-security</category><category>colorado</category><category>republicans</category><category>theft</category><category>trucking</category><category>law</category><category>guns</category><category>murder</category><category>crime</category><category>government</category><category>robbery</category><category>hate-crimes</category><category>courts</category><category>us-news</category><category>ice</category><category>judges</category><category>activism</category><category>backlash</category><category>extremism</category><category>enforcement</category><category>right-wing</category><category>tucson</category><category>propaganda</category><category>hate-speech</category><category>doj</category><category>nyt</category><category>dhs</category><category>minutemen</category><category>hysteria</category><category>attorneys</category><category>blackwater</category><category>assassinations</category><category>cosmetology</category><category>nativism</category><category>vitriol</category><category>leos</category><category>pima-county</category><category>tea-party</category><category>gabrielle-giffords</category><category>cbp</category><category>flying-j</category><category>eric-larsen</category><category>jury-trials</category><category>shawna-forde</category><category>raul-flores</category><category>news-general</category><category>jared-loughner</category><category>christina-taylor-green</category><category>brisenia-flores</category><category>arivaca</category><category>gina-gonzalez</category><category>jason-bush</category><category>minuteman-civil-defense-committee</category><category>ron-wedow</category><category>robert-copley</category><category>rick-unklesbay</category><category>joseph-goldstein</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israeli mercenary threatens to blow whistle on Colombian officials - Colombia news | Colombia Reports</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Casa Esperanza]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Casa Esperanza]]></source><link>http://casaesperanza.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/22/5511127-israeli-mercenary-threatens-to-blow-whistle-on-colombian-officials-colombia-news-colombia-reports</link><guid>http://casaesperanza.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/22/5511127-israeli-mercenary-threatens-to-blow-whistle-on-colombian-officials-colombia-news-colombia-reports</guid><category>army</category><category>human-rights</category><category>russia</category><category>colombia</category><category>israel</category><category>cia</category><category>jail</category><category>whistleblower</category><category>court</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>civil-rights</category><category>death-squads</category><category>war-crimes</category><category>law</category><category>prison</category><category>crime</category><category>government</category><category>international-law</category><category>u-s</category><category>attorney</category><category>south-america</category><category>civil-liberties</category><category>courts</category><category>israeli</category><category>prisons</category><category>world-news</category><category>guerrillas</category><category>activism</category><category>central-intelligence-agency</category><category>war-crime</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>conspiracy</category><category>right-wing</category><category>world-politics</category><category>mercenaries</category><category>death-squad</category><category>whistleblowers</category><category>conspiracies</category><category>farc</category><category>cartels</category><category>attorneys</category><category>jails</category><category>mercenary</category><category>armies</category><category>colombian</category><category>medellin</category><category>jerusalem-post</category><category>extradiction</category><category>right-wing-paramilitaries</category><category>rights-liberties</category><category>israeli-mercenaries</category><category>yair-klein</category><category>medellin-cartel</category><category>international-arrest-warrant</category><category>european-court-for-human-rights</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:40:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Why the war on drugs in Colombia may never be won</title>
<description><![CDATA["Government policies related to zero coca, and strict verification procedures, take a long time and limit the state's ability to work with communities in transitioning from a coca economy to a legal economy," a recent US Agency for International Development (USAID) report said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/16/3903659-why-the-war-on-drugs-in-colombia-may-never-be-won</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/16/3903659-why-the-war-on-drugs-in-colombia-may-never-be-won</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>drugs</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>cocaine</category><category>world-news</category><category>plan-colombia</category><category>farc</category><category>international-policy</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Colombia: Stop Abuses by Paramilitariesâ�� Successor Groups | Human Rights Watch</title>
<description><![CDATA[(Bogotá) - Colombia needs to respond effectively to the violent groups committing human rights abuses that have emerged around the country in the aftermath of the flawed demobilization of paramilitary groups, Human Rights Watch says in a report released today.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/08/3871166-colombia-stop-abuses-by-paramilitaries-successor-groups-human-rights-watch</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/08/3871166-colombia-stop-abuses-by-paramilitaries-successor-groups-human-rights-watch</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>kidnap</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>rape</category><category>world-news</category><category>extortion</category><category>ransom</category><category>displacement</category><category>neo-paramilitaries</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:16:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ecuador Emerges as Hub for International Crime</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the inter-governmental body responsible for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism, is expected at its meeting in February in Abu Dhabi to include Ecuador on its high-risk jurisdiction list at the request of G20 finance m&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/08/3870635-ecuador-emerges-as-hub-for-international-crime</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/08/3870635-ecuador-emerges-as-hub-for-international-crime</guid><category>terrorism</category><category>drugs</category><category>money-laundering</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:39:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Colombia sees gold output doubling-INTERVIEW</title>
<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Colombia will double its gold production over the next two years as foreign and local miners are drawn to the country by improved security conditions and the prospect of rich deposits, a government official said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867582-colombia-sees-gold-output-doubling-interview</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867582-colombia-sees-gold-output-doubling-interview</guid><category>colombia</category><category>gold</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>mining</category><category>indigenous</category><category>world-news</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 03:29:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Drug-trafficking, anti-narcotics policy and security: another humanitarian cost of the Colombian conflict</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the two decades prior to President Alvaro Uribe's election in 2001, illicit crop production in Colombia grew from 3,500 to 144,000 hectares, representing an annual increase of 25.6%, with Colombia producing more than 70% of the world's cocaine.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867558-drug-trafficking-anti-narcotics-policy-and-security-another-humanitarian-cost-of-the-colombian-conflict</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867558-drug-trafficking-anti-narcotics-policy-and-security-another-humanitarian-cost-of-the-colombian-conflict</guid><category>colombia</category><category>drugs</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>trafficking</category><category>world-news</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 03:15:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Witness for Peace - A Call for New U.S.-Colombia Policy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Secretary of State Clinton,]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867519-witness-for-peace-a-call-for-new-us-colombia-policy</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867519-witness-for-peace-a-call-for-new-us-colombia-policy</guid><category>assassination</category><category>kidnap</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>foreign-aid</category><category>world-news</category><category>guerrillas</category><category>ransom</category><category>child-soldiers</category><category>soacha</category><category>falsos-positivos</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:58:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Two FARC guerrillas flee in Antioquia and Casanare</title>
<description><![CDATA[January 27, 2010
Bogotá.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867478-two-farc-guerrillas-flee-in-antioquia-and-casanare</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867478-two-farc-guerrillas-flee-in-antioquia-and-casanare</guid><category>paramilitaries</category><category>world-news</category><category>bogota</category><category>demobilize</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:48:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>FARC acquired uranium, says Colombia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bogotá, Colombia
Weeks after the dust settled from the Colombian bombs dropped on a clandestine rebel camp in Ecuador, the information found on three laptop computers found in the rubble continues to reverberate in the Andes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867341-farc-acquired-uranium-says-colombia</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867341-farc-acquired-uranium-says-colombia</guid><category>venezuela</category><category>chavez</category><category>uranium</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>world-news</category><category>dirty-bomb</category><category>neo-paramilitaries</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:51:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Interpol: Colombia did not doctor FARC files</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bogotá, Colombia
An international forensics team has determined that Colombian officials did not tamper with computer files they say prove Venezuela's close collaboration with leftist rebels.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867337-interpol-colombia-did-not-doctor-farc-files</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867337-interpol-colombia-did-not-doctor-farc-files</guid><category>venezuela</category><category>drugs</category><category>kidnap</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>ransom</category><category>neo-paramilitaries</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Colombia's 'neo-paramilitaries' on the rise</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bogotá, Colombia
New criminal organizations born from defunct paramilitary groups pose an increasing threat to human rights and security in Colombia and often function with complacency from local authorities, Human Rights Watch warned in a report released Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867331-colombias-neo-paramilitaries-on-the-rise</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867331-colombias-neo-paramilitaries-on-the-rise</guid><category>assassination</category><category>kidnap</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>ransom</category><category>neo-paramilitaries</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:46:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is Colombia's FARC on the ropes?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bogotá, Colombia
The surrender this week of a leading commander of Colombia's leftist rebels is the latest in a string of devastating blows to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that has been fighting to take power for more than 40 years.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867328-is-colombias-farc-on-the-ropes</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867328-is-colombias-farc-on-the-ropes</guid><category>assassination</category><category>drugs</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>kidnapping</category><category>world-news</category><category>ransom</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:44:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Document - Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten women's organization | Amnesty International</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bogotá-based women's human rights organization Corporación Sisma Mujerreceived an e-mail death threat on 27 January, from the paramilitary group Central Bloc of the Black Eagles Truth and Death (Bloque Central de las Aguilas Negras Verdad y Muerte).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867304-document-colombia-paramilitaries-threaten-womens-organization-amnesty-international</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867304-document-colombia-paramilitaries-threaten-womens-organization-amnesty-international</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>threats</category><category>womens-rights</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:41:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Venezuela deports suspected cocaine traffickers, paramilitary member to US, France, Colombia - latimes.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela deported alleged major drug traffickers to the U.S. and France on Tuesday, the country's top security official said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867301-venezuela-deports-suspected-cocaine-traffickers-paramilitary-member-to-us-france-colombia-latimescom</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867301-venezuela-deports-suspected-cocaine-traffickers-paramilitary-member-to-us-france-colombia-latimescom</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>colombia</category><category>venezuela</category><category>drugs</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>cocaine</category><category>traffic</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:39:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Paramilitary Groups On The Rise In Colombia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Paramilitary successor groups in Colombia have become a major threat to Colombia's economy and human rights record, according to a report issued by Human Rights Watch.
The groups, which formed after the Colombian government tried to disband paramilitary groups such as the Unit&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867280-new-paramilitary-groups-on-the-rise-in-colombia</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3867280-new-paramilitary-groups-on-the-rise-in-colombia</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>assassination</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>kidnapping</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:30:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Obama administration in Latin America</title>
<description><![CDATA[Writing as Obama took up office, COHA called on the new administration to make good on these foundations and implement a program of change which would not only reverse eight years of failed initiatives under Bush, but also manage to address a series of new political and economic &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866878-the-obama-administration-in-latin-america</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866878-the-obama-administration-in-latin-america</guid><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>us-army</category><category>world-news</category><category>usaid</category><category>coup</category><category>socialism</category><category>massacres</category><category>government-abuse</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:36:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>2,000 bodies found--the result of a Pentagon/USAID program in Colombia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here's my post on the La Macarena massacre, just discovered,--what one investigator described as "an infinity of corpses"--in a area of Colombia that has been a special focus of U.S. and Colombian military operations. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866848-2000-bodies-found-the-result-of-a-pentagonusaid-program-in-colombia</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866848-2000-bodies-found-the-result-of-a-pentagonusaid-program-in-colombia</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>weapons</category><category>foreign-aid</category><category>world-news</category><category>massacres</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:28:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Colombia's militias guilty of same abuses committed by predecessors</title>
<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA (AP) — New militias have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups and they are committing the same sorts of violence as their predecessors, a prominent international rights organization said Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866827-colombias-militias-guilty-of-same-abuses-committed-by-predecessors</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866827-colombias-militias-guilty-of-same-abuses-committed-by-predecessors</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>government-abuse</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:24:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The U.S. and its unruly Latin American 'backyard' </title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866819-the-us-and-its-unruly-latin-american-backyard</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866819-the-us-and-its-unruly-latin-american-backyard</guid><category>paramilitaries</category><category>us-army</category><category>world-news</category><category>ngos</category><category>coup</category><category>socialism</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Honduras: The brutality of agrarian capitalism</title>
<description><![CDATA[Honduras: The brutality of agrarian capitalism 

By: Dr.Juan Almendares Bonilla. The Liberator and ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866803-honduras-the-brutality-of-agrarian-capitalism</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866803-honduras-the-brutality-of-agrarian-capitalism</guid><category>police</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>ngos</category><category>brutality</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Paramilitaries Heirs : The New Face of Violence in Colombia| Human Rights Watch</title>
<description><![CDATA[This 122-page report documents widespread and serious abuses by successor groups to the paramilitary coalition known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866788-paramilitaries-heirs-the-new-face-of-violence-in-colombia-human-rights-watch</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866788-paramilitaries-heirs-the-new-face-of-violence-in-colombia-human-rights-watch</guid><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>rape</category><category>world-news</category><category>ngos</category><category>ransom</category><category>massacres</category><category>displacement</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:06:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>La Prensa :: 40 Union members slain last year in Colombia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bogota, Feb 4 (EFE).- Forty union members were murdered last year in Colombia as the Andean nation remained the world's most dangerous country for labor activists, union officials said Thursday in the northwestern city of Medellin.
The figure signifies that "60 percent of the tr&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graehaem]]></source><link>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866517-la-prensa-40-union-members-slain-last-year-in-colombia</link><guid>http://graehaem.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/07/3866517-la-prensa-40-union-members-slain-last-year-in-colombia</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>paramilitaries</category><category>killing</category><category>murder</category><category>unions</category><category>kidnapping</category><category>world-news</category><category>neo-paramilitaries</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:56:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>