Monday, January 4, 2016
The fight’s not over, says the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday with events in Oventic, Chiapas.
In a statement, the revolutionary organization said its indigenous communities have neither the new digital televisions given away by the federal government, nor late-model vehicles and concrete homes.
But their residents have a better quality of life than those “who have sold themselves” to the different political parties.
It was on January 1, 1994 that the ELZN, under the leadership of Subcommander Marcos, took up arms in its war “against the Mexican state.” Armed rebels seized several towns and cities in Chiapas.
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Some 1,800 Latin American former soldiers are being trained somewhere in the desert of United Arab Emirates as part of an operation set up by Blackwater Worldwide.
The United Arab Emirates has deployed about 450 Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight with the Saudi-led coalition that is attempting to put under control the Houthis, according to a four-page New York Times report published late Wednesday.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Leftist rebels in Colombia ambushed a group carrying regional election ballots, killing 12 members of the security forces, officials say.
The group had left an indigenous reservation in the northern Guican province when it was hit, defence minister Luis Carlos Villegas said.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made waves of late with his military offensive in Syria, and now he has on-the-ground backing of the Cuban variety. One of the world’s leading centers for research on Cuba has released breaking details of the Castro regime’s presence in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.
The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami shared via email on October 13, 2015, that General Leopoldo Cintra Frías, head of the Cuban Armed Forces, had already landed in Syria. He is, they write, “leading a group of Cuban military personnel … in support of Syria’s dictator Assad” and, in Cold War fashion, the Russian contingent.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end their 50-year war within the next six months, sealing their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image in the South American nation.
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