OPINION The unknown story of Colombia’s campaign of military intervention in Venezuela Based on the strategy of hybrid warfare, the Colombian state, working with US intelligence, has been carrying out covert military operations and targeted assassinations inside Venezuela, reports OLIVER DODD
Features | Monday 21st Jun 2021 Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook
Features | Friday 07th May 2021 Colombia: under a hail of bullets, workers and peasants refuse to retreat
Tuesday 16th Mar 2021 Colombia's insurgency resumes: why Segunda Marquetalia, a wing of the Farc, have returned to war Inside a base in the Catatumbo mountains, OLIVER DODD speaks to Comandante Villa Vazquez in the first ever face-to-face interview with a senior figure in the recently re-established guerilla army
Wednesday 09th Dec 2020 Exposing Colombia’s dirty counter-insurgency operations Researcher OLIVER DODD draws on interviews and field work to look at some of the tactics that the Latin American state, with the support and guidance of the US, has used against Marxist rebels in its 50-year civil war
Monday 25th May 2020 The Colombian connection: US imperialism and Venezuela OLIVER DODD explains that big business in Colombia has everything to gain from extending its war against the poor within its own borders to the fledgling socialist state that it neighbours
Sunday 05th Apr 2020 Amid intensifying state repression, Colombia’s ELN imposes an ‘armed strike’ OLIVER DODD reports on the National Liberation Army's general strike backed up with guns
Friday 04th Oct 2019 Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement is in crisis, despite the Farc’s commitment Two years into a permanent ceasefire, Colombia's now unarmed Marxist revolutionaries are seeing little return for their truce – and a minority have even returned to war. OLIVER DODD reports from Colombia
Thursday 23rd May 2019 Death squads in Colombia - paid for by big business OLIVER DODD exposes the role of wealthy groups, including multinationals like Coca Cola and United Fruit, in sponsoring paramilitary murder in Latin America
Tuesday 09th Apr 2019 Why Latin America’s oldest insurgent communist army is growing Embedded researcher OLIVER DODD, who lived among the armed guerilla forces of the ELN, explains their origins, theory and practice
Monday 11th Mar 2019 Why has Colombia’s government ended peace talks with Marxist rebels ELN? The new right-wing administration has cancelled talks and demanded the arrest of the insurgents' negotiating team - but the guerillas aren't beaten, writes OLIVER DODD
