*Police murders of striking United Fruit workers at New Orleans port June 11, 1913
*CIA orchestrated coup in Guatemala, 1954, leading to decades of Genocide against Mayan people, all on behalf of United Fruit
*Death squad murders in Columbia, on behalf of Chiquita (which used to be called United Fruit)
Colombia's president says country will break diplomatic relations with Israel over war in Gaza | AP News
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday announced his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between the countries over the Israel-Hamas war.
Petro again described Israel’s siege of Gaza as “genocide.” He previously suspended purchases of weapons from Israel and compared that country’s actions in Gaza to those of Nazi Germany.
“Tomorrow, diplomatic relations with the State of Israel will be broken … for having a genocidal president,” Petro said during an International Workers’ Day march in Colombia’s capital. “If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we are not going to let it die.”
@nathans Remember, Colombia with an O are the ones encouraging de-escalation and prevention of further war crimes. Columbia with a U are the tyrannical dictators held up by a police state abusing their own people.
I know nothing of this fellow. It has no common name. A weevil person might be able to guess at its food from the size and shape of its gonzo snoot. I would guess flower buds perhaps.
Here's a cute caterpillar doing its best to disrupt your feed. This is the Shag Carpet Caterpillar Moth (Prothysana sp.). As an adult, it is sorta a drab triangular brown thing, but as a larva, I find it resplendent. Its larval scales are way cooler than the adult ones.
"On the right side of its body, the #bird flaunted the typical blue plumage and black head of the male Green #Honeycreeper. On the left, it was a beautiful grass green... the specimen spotted in #Colombia was a rare example of bilateral #gynandromorphy — a condition in which one side of an animal exhibits male characteristics and the other female."
A female #HarpyEagle at La Reserva Biopark in Cota, near Bogotà, #Colombia. The bird has been hunted and trafficked to near-extinction in parts of South America, but biologists have put a male and female pair together in this bio-dome in the hope that they will reproduce.
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said his government is planning to help up to 50 Palestinian children from Gaza who have lost limbs by bringing them to Colombia and providing them with #prostheses.
Under the programme, the children, aged between 12 and 15 years, would be flown from Egypt to #Colombia alongside a family member or guardian, where they would spend six months in treatment and rehabilitation.
A group of spectacled #caiman test the water in Buenaventura, #Colombia. All in all, 74 animals were released as part of a ‘celebration for life and natural species’
From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation by Michael Kenney, 2008
From Pablo to Osama is a comparative study of Colombian drug-smuggling enterprises, terrorist networks (including al Qaeda), and the law enforcement agencies that seek to dismantle them.