Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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Colombia: a mercenary state serving US imperialism
OLIVER DODD says Colombia's regime is not just an abuser of its own people, but a lynchpin of US dominance in Latin America
A Colombian protester against neoliberalism this spring
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AS THE gateway to both Central and South America and providing strategic access to the Panama Canal, US imperialism has long prioritised Colombia as a client state and bulwark to counter working-class and peasant forces in the Americas.
Through the installation of at least seven military bases that we know about, US imperialism exploits Colombian territory as a strategic beachhead to combat anti-imperialists, especially threatening revolutionary movements in Colombia and Venezuela.
This can be seen most clearly in the attempted 2019 assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The mercenaries involved positioned their training camps close to US and Colombian military bases and launched their operation from Colombian airstrips, rivers and shores.
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