As a Guatemalan who experienced the signing of the Firm and Lasting Peace in my country, and have seen for the past 19 years the decline of the Peace Accords, I wonder: Will it be different in Colombia? Will those responsible be genuinely committed to the peace process?
Because in any socio-political and socio-cultural context peace is an integral part: What those involved in this new process of reconciliation are offering? Who are those who are really committed to this new dawn? What (...)
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What Awaits Colombia, a Firm and Lasting Peace?Ilka Oliva Corado
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Opinion
S.O.S, It’s not Venezuela, it’s MexicoIlka Oliva Corado
4 July 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoMexico is being kidnapped, tortured, massacred, and disappeared by none other than the government of Peña Nieto. The urgent question we ask ourselves is, what are Almagro and the OAS waiting to apply the Democratic Charter to Peña Nieto? Is it not the government violating the human rights of Mexican citizens? Doesn’t the government incite and exerts the violence through its armed wing? Isn’t the Peña Nieto government kidnapping, torturing and massacring citizens? Is it not pillaging the (...)
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Opinion
Venezuela and the Power of International CapitalIlka Oliva Corado
7 June 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoAt the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Rafael Correa was clear when he proposed to replace the Organization of American States (OAS) by the CELAC. It was a very appropriate proposal. Remember that the CELAC is an organization that was created in 2011 at the initiative of Hugo Chavez, who suggested replacing the OAS by an entity with the same members but without the United States. The reasons are obvious: Latin America is not the backyard of the (...)
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Opinion
LATIN AMERICA - Cristina, My LoveIlka Oliva Corado
1 June 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoI’m not a feminist, neither red, nor leftist, nor revolutionary. I know very well where I do belong: I am a pariah and Cristina is my love. As well as Mercedes Sosa, Dilma, Evita and Violetona Parra. And as a writer to shout this love to the world, has earned me the reprobation of more than a few. I have been accused more than once of being mercenary, living in the United States with money sent to me by Cristina and Dilma to write about them. So help me God! These women don’t even know (...)
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BRAZIL - Dilma, UnbreakableIlka Oliva Corado
19 May 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoWe should have killed her; her tortures will have repeated hundreds of times to themselves when they saw her becoming Brazil’s first woman president. Or had wanted also that cancer disappeared her, like Evita (temporarily, because it is immortal), from the political scene. Dilma marked a watershed moment in Brazil and Latin America. A woman president overcoming patriarchy. And gender inequality. A woman who from the government has created gender inclusion policies. Social policies that (...)
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Opinion
GUATEMALA - Forced ExodusIlka Oliva Corado
19 May 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoWhy girls, adolescents and women migrate? What is the reason for leaving the country and embarking on the misadventure of an illegal crossing with de certainty that they will be transgressed, and if they make it they will be able to survive and try to deal with the post-border hell; that if they reach their destination, otherwise they will become one more of the statistics of the disappeared and dead while in the migratory journey in no man’s land. Without any authority searching for them (...)
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Opinion
LATIN AMERICA - Coups and ResistanceIlka Oliva Corado
25 April 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoToday dictatorships have ceased to be bloody, the US and the Latin American oligarchy have changed their strategy. Imposition is corporate made. A new kind of dirty war and Plan Condor which execute soft coups with its central axis: through manipulation by the media, and with this, numbing the minds of the masses (Latin American middle class) which due to their indifference are easy to use. Unaware they vote for structures which according to them (classist and racist) would only affect the (...)
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Essay
A Universal NobodyIlka Oliva Corado
21 April 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoYesterday I had an interview for a radio in Spain. Among other things they asked me what I feel to be published in the five continents and not in Guatemala. And that my writings are translated into other languages. This question is recurrent and I never can answer it calmly because there are my emotions and feelings involved. Guatemala has hurt me since I was born, and still hurt me and will hurt me until the day I die. Because I have lived in flesh and blood, its humiliation, blows, (...)
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Opinion
GUATEMALA - Operation Condor, Jimmy Morales StyleIlka Oliva Corado
7 April 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoThe fledgling government of Jimmy Morales in Guatemala has named a hunt against young slum dwellers “Plan Condor”.
Promoting collective amnesia is one of the primary objectives of the government of Jimmy Morales in Guatemala, and this is supported by the system and media who are party to this falsehood. Operation Condor – the name alone brings bitter memories to the whole continent: dictatorships, torture, murder, human rights violations, enforced disappearances, rape, genocide.
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Opinion
The Unwavering Dignity of the Cuban Revolution Has WonIlka Oliva Corado
4 April 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoMarch 22nd, 2016.
They can try to say what they want, but the Cuban Revolution continues to triumph against U.S. interference despite the decades-long blockade and the Cuban Adjustment Act (among other things). And since it’s time to say things clearly, let’s begin by asking: why does Obama talk about democracy if in his own country if police kill afro descendants and undocumented Latin American immigrants like dogs in the street? How can he talk about democracy if in his country the (...)