By Elson Concepcion Perez on July 10, 2019
Social leaders murdered in Colombia this year.
This article exposes a reactionary side effect of the Bachelet untruthful and biased report against the Bolivarian government of Nicolas Maduro. Now murderous US puppet officials like Ivan Duque feel they have the green light to hide the terror being sown in their own country by diverting attention against Venezuela. – edit
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque traveled early this week to Lima, Peru, to echo and launch attacks —once again— against Venezuela, this time on the occasion of the report released by U.N. High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet about the human rights situation in that country.
According to a local newspaper, the Colombian President said in Lima: “I hope that thanks to the result of the report presented by Michelle Bachelet, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will quickly not only start an investigation but now has the conclusive evidence to start a trial to give the dictator, who is destroying the Venezuelan people, what he deserves.” And as usual among characters like this, Duque continued muttering to himself by adding: “I can talk with moral authority because I was the first one to denounce Maduro before the ICC three years ago.”
If I wanted to hold on to a few of his words, it would be enough just to keep “moral authority.” Instead of inventing stories on the other side of the border with Venezuela, he should at least be concerned by the wave of violence that is wracking his country where 120 social leaders were killed during the last three months alone; this number is added to the 226 murders of civic leaders and social organizers in 2018.
Will the Colombian Government do something to stop the massacre and to favor the Peace Agreement with the FARC guerrillas, now turned into a meaningless paper without implementation thanks to the President? Will there be an answer for the murder of former guerrilla members, who after signing the Peace Agreement, which is now up to 92?
Concerning the land, the main demand among peasants and communal and social leaders, which was included in the Peace Agreement, it is now being stone walled by the Colombian government. While the government may have forgotten, the Colombian peasants have not and they have not spared any opportunity to demand President Duque hold talks to solve this problem and stop the wave of murders of social leaders. But no, Duque is far too concerned about the alleged “human rights situation in Venezuela” while ignoring the righteous claims of the rural poor in his country
Do the spiraling deaths of social and communal leaders in Colombian fields have anything to do with respecting and protecting human rights in this nation? Apparently the Colombian president does not think so.
Source: Granma, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau