Duque telling Colombia citizens they are better off with illegal armed groups: governor

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema October 30, 2018

Coca farmers and a governor from the south of Colombia are saying that President Ivan Duque is failing to comply with a counter-narcotics strategy that is part of an ongoing peace process.

The farmers and the governor of the Nariño province want the government to reallocate budgets that would allow the national government to fulfill promises made by former President Juan Manuel Santos to replace coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, with legal crops.

Furthermore, the farmers want the government to abstain from fumigating or forcibly eradicating crops as vowed by Defense Minister Guillermo Botero and supported by the United States, the country providing the chemicals.

According to Nariño governor Camilo Romero, the national government has deceived both the coca growers and regional governments for refusing to carry out the crop substitution program in 26 of the 27 municipalities where farmers signed up, despite violent resistance from drug traffickers.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/duque-telling-colombias-citizens-they-are-better-off-with-illegal-armed-groups-governor/

[Judi Lynn]

1. While I'm thinking about it, here's Colombia Reports credentials,

which were attacked by one, and only one "human" in all the years I have cited the publication, the only English-speaking newspaper in Colombia. I took it with a grain of salt, very aware of troll habits, but I just discovered their Facebook page and decided to post their "About US" to clear up any misunderstandings, as if there actually could be anyone stupid enough to buy attacks on these busy and courageous people:

Our Story
COLOMBIA REPORTS·WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Colombia Reports is South America's most-read independent news publication in English.

We are not-for-profit because we don’t care about profit. Our only goal is to inform the world on the reality in Colombia using verified facts and appropriate context.

The website was founded on February 9, 2008 by journalist Adriaan Alsema. The Dutchman has been Colombia Reports' "enfant-terrible-in-chief" ever since.

From our home base of Medellin, we reach approximately 150,000 unique visitors every month, the vast majority from North America and Europe.

We have gratefully received ample international recognition. We have been cited by major media outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Huffington Post and Fox News. Additionally, our reporters have contributed to television reports by BBC World and CNN.
Our content is syndicated by BBC Monitoring and Dow Jones Activa.

Our ever-changing team is made up of enthusiastic volunteers, professionals, aspiring journalists and photographers interested in contributing to independent journalism in Colombia.

https://www.facebook.com/colombiareports/


Anyone bothering to check the information will discover C.R., unlike absurd sources linked by fasists NEVER invent sfacts, and always finds the facts, even though being truthful can get easily you killed by right-wing greedy, violent racists. This has ALWAYS been the way things go and everyone knows it.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. "the only English-speaking newspaper in Colombia."

https://thecitypaperbogota.com/

https://thebogotapost.com/

http://www.medellinherald.com/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110863433

[Judi Lynn]

3. Look at the conspicuous slant of your "Medellin Herald:"

Medellin Herald is a locally produced, English-language news and advisory service uniquely focused upon a more-mature audience of visitors, investors, conference and trade-show attendees, property buyers, expats, retirees, volunteers and nature lovers.

U.S. native Roberto Peckham, who founded Medellin Herald in 2015, has been residing in metro Medellin since 2005 and has traveled regularly and extensively throughout Colombia since 1981.

Medellin Herald welcomes your editorial contributions, comments and story-idea suggestions. Send us a message using the "contact" section.

http://www.medellinherald.com/

Oh, well.

Maybe I should have underscored, "Newspaper."

Have tried to use Bogota Post, there's no "news" part there.

Example of one of their hot stories:

President Duque Doubles Number of Active Soldiers in Catatumbo
By Jordan Jones - October 29, 2018

In closing, President Duque made a rallying cry that echoes the tough-on-crime sentiment that he campaigned on; a view that he also shares with US President Donald Trump. Recently, President Donald Trump deployed over five thousand troops to the border of Mexico to meet a caravan of Central American migrants travelling toward the region.

https://thebogotapost.com/2018/10/29/president-duque-doubles-number-of-active-soldiers-in-catatumbo/

The City Paper? Probably not. No journalism involved.

It's no accident that Colombia was known for YEARS as one of the worst countries in the world for journalists, with vicious murders of journalists dominating their lives. As they said themselves, publicly, the threats, the reality forced many of them to "self-edit" if they remained in Colombia at all, and so many of them simply fled the country to save their lives. One of Colombia's very best journalists had to engage body guards and a bullet proof car to simply deliver his children to school, and return them home, not to mention the terrorism he had to endure, along with his brother, another journalist.

Journalists who could even afford multiple body guards and bullet proof cars are in short supply. It's not a lucrative field for most reporters.

I stand on what I said, sorry.

By the way, I clearly remember a person who "participates" in this progressive message board actually sent information on something I posted at DU regarding something published by Colombia Reports, to the author, in hope he would take a verbal shot at me and take me down by attacking what I wrote. I was surprised as hell when he showed up here trying to argue, but it just didn't work. How do you think that happened? Clearly that was a case in which I disagreed with a Colombia Reports writer. Oh, well.

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Nope, its a not a "newspaper", its a website. It says right there on the "about us" section

Here is the news section on the bogota post that you apparently missed https://thebogotapost.com/category/news-analysis-opinion/

Here is the City Paper. Its is in fact a newspaper in addition to its online format. It has news printed on paper which is commonly referred to as a newspaper.

It probably would have been better if you didn't respond or simply stated, "thank you, I stand corrected".

I do recall being the one who initially brought Colombia Reports articles to the forum. I seem to recall the now-departed chavistas here didn't take kindly to translated articles so began citing C.R. If someone had cited C.R. articles previously to me then I apologize in advance.

I can't make anything out of your last paragraph.

By the way, after all this time I am sure we can agree that chavismo was a complete failure and continuing disaster.