mo4ch:>Death & displacement in Colombia, but silence from Washington – Lee Camp | Mo4ch News

Published time: 23 Feb, 2019 00:45Edited time: 23 Feb, 2019 00:46 Following a visit to the US by Colombian President Ivan Duque earlier this month, Redacted Tonight host Lee Camp spoke with two Colombian activists who painted a grim picture of life in Washington’s top anti-Venezuela ally.Though Washington has found Colombia a willing ally in its fight for regime change in Caracas, US involvement in Colombia’s own sordid history of human rights abuses is rarely questioned, human rights activist Gimena Sanchez told Camp.“The United States is the third actor in (Colombia’s) internal armed conflict that hasn’t been formally named,” Sanchez said. “The US was the biggest supporter of Colombia in its whole counterinsurgency efforts and anti-narcotics efforts, and those efforts really helped to foment a lot of abuses.”Since Colombia’s civil war kicked off in the 1960s, its government has used paramilitary forces to quash both leftist guerillas and narco traffickers, often with disastrous conse…