{"id":39727,"date":"2014-04-14T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39727"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:54:23","slug":"how-afro-colombians-bear-the-brunt-of-us-backed-violence-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/04\/14\/how-afro-colombians-bear-the-brunt-of-us-backed-violence-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Afro-Colombians Bear the Brunt of US-backed Violence in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140414Uprising\/2014_04_14_mina_rojas.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Charo Mina-Rojas <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140414Uprising\/2014_04_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/afro_colombian.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A free trade pact signed by the US with Colombia is being criticized for not including human rights protections. Over the past 3 years more than 70 labor union activists have been killed in the country known as the US&#8217;s strongest ally in Latin America. <\/p>\n<p>US ties with Colombia also extend to direct military assistance in the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221; under the guise of which thousands were killed, farmlands fumigated, and paramilitary groups flourished. Today Colombia has one of the highest rates of violence in Latin America. <\/p>\n<p>Within Colombia, class, race, and gender divisions exacerbate existing problems, just as in any country. Colombians of African descent, face the brunt of physical and economic violence. <\/p>\n<p>Afro-Colombians are the third largest group of African-descended people outside the continent of Africa, behind Brazil and the US. One point five million Afro-Colombians have reportedly been internally displaced, and women in that community have faced the brunt of sexual and physical violence. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Charo-Mina Rojas is a Colombian human rights defender with more than 15 years of activism working with non-governmental and grassroots organizations in Colombia and internationally.  Mina-Rojas has served as National Coordinator of Advocacy and Outreach in the U.S, for the Black Communities\u2019 Process (Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia- PCN) and was a founding member of the Afro-Colombia Solidarity Network, based in the United States. Mina-Rojas is currently the director of PCN\u2019s Afro-Colombian Women\u2019s Human Rights Project (ACWHR) based in Colombia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free trade pact signed by the US with Colombia is being criticized for not including human rights protections. Over the past 3 years more than 70 labor union activists have been killed in the country known as the US&#8217;s strongest ally in Latin America. US ties with Colombia also extend to direct military assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39739,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727\/revisions\/39739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}