A cry for peace loaded rejection of violence was felt on Thursday in 20 cities in Colombia and 100 in the world, where hundreds of civic organizations took to the streets in solidarity with the victims of the paramilitaries in the Andean country and against the warmongering policies of President Alvaro Uribe.
The demonstrations reflected a widespread conviction agreements between public officials and right-wing armed groups in Colombia, which since 2006 came to light in the famous scandal of the "para-politics", which means the environment of the Colombian president and his supporters in Congress.
Bogotá was the core of the protest in Colombia. There, a crowd walked through the main streets to the Plaza de Bolívar, where demonstrators reiterated their condemnation of the more than 3 000 500 massacres committed by the paramilitaries since 1982, according to figures of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (Mivice .)
The demonstrations reflected a widespread conviction agreements between public officials and right-wing armed groups in Colombia, which since 2006 came to light in the famous scandal of the "para-politics", which means the environment of the Colombian president and his supporters in Congress.
Bogotá was the core of the protest in Colombia. There, a crowd walked through the main streets to the Plaza de Bolívar, where demonstrators reiterated their condemnation of the more than 3 000 500 massacres committed by the paramilitaries since 1982, according to figures of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (Mivice .)
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TeleSUR special envoy to Bogota, Abraham Istillarte, detailed in his report that many who participated in the march started walking on Monday and during the trip, were shouting slogans that made it clear they did not want continue to be victims of paramilitary violence, crime and overflowing of the repressive state.
Marcos Romero, promoter activity, told Telesur that "Colombian society can not have an ethical media, entrepreneurs need to openly condemn the crimes of the paramilitaries and the state has committed," he said.
also vowed to social organizations "are very clear in condemning the kidnapping, as we have been doing in these demonstrations. We must condemn any form of arbitrariness." According
Mivice, in Colombia there are 2 000 800 hostages for various reasons, 300 of them children, while there is an unquantifiable number of missing and at least 4 million people displaced by violence.
According to Romero, with these street actions, the Colombian people "once again makes clear its will for peace is achieved in this country, but is convinced that what is needed is real political will." Several marches
In Quito Ecuador, a thousand people demonstrated outside the embassies of the United States and Colombia, to protest the Colombian military incursion into Ecuadorian territory.
with Ecuador flags, banners with slogans against U.S. President George W. Bush and Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, the protesters marched to the cries of "Bush and Uribe just as murderers," "not get involved in your war," Uribe fascist, you are a terrorist "."
Victor Ramos, Colombia's 45 years of age living in Ecuador for the past twenty years, said: "I do not agree with the system having Uribe to eliminate the guerrillas. I do not agree with the aggression carried out against Ecuador ". Samanta
Gordillo, a Quito carrying a flag of Ecuador, said that "Colombia's incursion in response to a U.S. order to prevent them from installing leftist movements in Latin America."
During the morning, in Quito and Guayaquil, there were several demonstrations for peace, which condemned the Colombian military action and violence by the FARC. Shares
many cities in many Latin American cities and the world were held peace marches in Colombia. According
tells the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo, in Quito were banners for the humanitarian exchange and a negotiated settlement in Colombia. The support committee for Betancourt Ingrid participated in the movement in Paris. In Berlin, they protested the actions of the paramilitaries.
In twelve of the states of Venezuela joined Venezuela and Colombia. Maria Teresa
Earth, a member of the Colombian Social Organization in Venezuela, Telesur reiterated that the demonstration is an expression of condemnation of crimes against humanity committed by paramilitaries in Colombia, as the genocide of thousands of members of the Patriotic Union in the 1980's, under the umbrella of the State.
For the activist, the current president's policies were no different from their predecessors for 20 years, because not only mean the continuation of the war in Colombia, but to escalate the conflict to the entire region.
"There is a profound rejection of the policies of President Uribe and his desire to introduce it into the region. Here in Caracas was overwhelming, the sovereign people with Colombians who are living here, said," Land said.
In his view, "to reach peace, there must be conditions and guarantees to be given the dialogue process (the guerrillas) and to achieve a humanitarian agreement." In Buenos Aires
about 2 thousand demonstrators also protested against Colombia's military incursion into Ecuadorian territory, with motto "In opposition to Uribe and in solidarity with Ecuador, Venezuela, FARC and the ELN."
street activity supported by human rights organizations, social movements and progressive parties, began with a rally outside the Embassy of Colombia and continued under intermittent rain to the gates of the embassy of Ecuador, where he was received by some officials.
Participants in the demonstration read a manifesto that said "stop state terrorism in Colombia" and claimed that the government of President Alvaro Uribe has used the pretext of combating terrorism to practice "a genocide similar to that of Iraq," with United States aid.
Also in Santiago de Chile, there was a demonstration to protest against state terrorism and paramilitary activity in Colombia.
The march, called by the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Movement, was also attended by members of various social and political organizations like the Association of Victims of Political Executions, Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana, the Communist Party and the Christian Left.
The protesters paid tribute to "Raúl Reyes", "number two" of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed by Colombian troops into Ecuadorian territory on March 1, many carrying banners photograph and the text "Comandante Raul Reyes, the present."
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In Peru, around fifty young activists of Left parties demonstrated outside the Colombian Embassy in Lima to demand that the government of President Alvaro Uribe to put end to the crisis in the region and claim a peaceful solution to political violence in Colombia.
At the rally, some protesters placed white flowers at the door of the embassy as a "symbol of peace" and to show that "young people are for dialogue."
"There is an imminent threat of conflict in the region and we bet for peace, reject terrorism wherever it comes, "said Magali Rosado, general secretary of the Youth Red Fatherland.
In Mexico City, a large group also focused a few meters from the Embassy of Colombia to remember the victims of "all" forms of violence in that South American country.
Under the slogan "because oblivion is like a second death," the demonstrators made with white tape on the sidewalks of Paseo de la Reforma a one hundred silhouettes of some victims of the conflict, each with an information sheet which read your personal information.
There were also marches in New York and Washington, Paris, London and other cities in Europe.
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