Colombia: a mercenary state serving US imperialism

In the two days after Oliver Dodd published this article in the Morning Star newspaper on 4th December, Colombia’s state again sent highly trained commandos into Venezuelan territory as part of two separate covert operations falling under the strategic rubric of “hybrid warfare”, assassinating alias Romaña and alias Paisa, two of the five secretariat members… Read More Colombia: a mercenary state serving US imperialism

Oliver Dodd: US, Israel Supporting Colombia’s State Terrorism

Speaking in an interview with Fars News Agency, Dodd said, “Supported by US National Security Doctrine, training, as well as Israeli expertise and experience acquired from its own state terrorist activities against Palestinians and others, the Colombian state has often outsourced its violence to private military actors… Colombian mercenaries are exported globally and found engaged… Read More Oliver Dodd: US, Israel Supporting Colombia’s State Terrorism

Colombia’s Mercenary Industry is Behind the Haitian Coup

Almost every assassin involved in the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was Colombian. That’s no coincidence: if you want mercenaries for hire on the cheap, often trained by the US military, you can find them in spades in Colombia. Colombia’s right-wing vice president Marta Lucía Ramírez recently complained that “Colombia should not be making international headlines… Read More Colombia’s Mercenary Industry is Behind the Haitian Coup

Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook

The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains OLIVER DODD ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent… Read More Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook

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 IN the late 1990s and early 2000s when Colombia’s civil war existentially threatened capitalist interests in… Read More Exposing Colombia’s dirty counter-insurgency operations