Drafting a Basic Map of Armed Actors in Venezuela
Now that news about fighting between guerrillas, gangs, and regular troops are becoming more frequent, we offer three ways of visualizing who are the conflicting groups and what are they fighting for
Tag: FARC
Mining is Igniting an Indigenous Conflict in the Venezuelan Amazon
Some of them want to work for the miners, others only want to defend their ancestral land, but violence has already begun and the ELN is behind it all
Guerrillas Release Captive Venezuelan Troops After Humiliating FANB
According to the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan armed forces rescued the eight prisoners held by the dissident FARC front that is fighting in Apure. The truth is that they were released after a negotiation in Cuba
No Country for Old Bandits
It seems that a leader of dissident FARC, a.k.a. Jesús Santrich, was killed in Venezuelan territory. Not a great selling point for the security features of Maduro’s sanctuary for outcasts
Human Rights Watch Claims Abuse Against Civilians in the Apure Conflict
The NGO collected testimonies of raids and executions by the military in the area where the Venezuelan forces are fighting a FARC rogue group
Combat on the Venezuela-Colombia Border: What We Know
The Venezuelan Army has lost at least two officers fighting a group of Colombian irregulars, near the Arauca river. Colombia reports at least 3,000 refugees crossing the border. What does it mean?
May 10th: Save the Date!
On May 10th, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London is publishing a massive dump of never-bef0re-published Raul Reyes laptop docs: courtesy of a leak-cum-final-parting-fuck-you-from-Uribe-to-his-onetime-protegé. Now that...
"When two leaders fight, it's their peoples who suffer in the end..."
Juan Manuel Santos says he knows for a fact there are no more FARC camps in Venezuela. Think about it – that’s huge! Santos continues to far exceed...
Santos Does His Job; Venezuelan Reactionaries Blanche
It’s fun to see the horrified responses in bits of Venezuela’s further-right-wing blogosphere at Juan Manuel Santos’s newfound partnership with Chávez. Some of these guys just can’t believe...
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