Hey everyone, this is Ben Norton and this is Moderate Rebels.

I did a lengthy three-part live stream interview with the Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequeira.

He's a friend of the show and a brilliant political analyst.

And I already posted part one of this episode talking about the situation in Venezuela living under

a U.S. blockade, so definitely check out that. This is part two of the interview, and we talk about

the crisis of extreme violence going on in Colombia, which is the top U.S. ally, kind of U.S. client

regime in Latin America.

The most recent scandal released as of February 2021 is that we now know, thanks to a special court,

that the Colombian military, in just a few years under the far-right president, Avaro Uribe,

massacred more than 6,400 innocent people,

including Campesino, peasant organizers, union organizers, left-wing activists,

and then falsely claimed that those people that they executed were socialist guerrillas from groups like

the FARC or the ELN. I mean, this is a huge scandal that, of course, is not really getting

much coverage in English language, U.S. corporate media. So we're going to talk about the horrific

violence that goes on, sponsored by the U.S. government in Colombia, right next door to Venezuela,

and how, while there's all this fake news and constant propaganda against Venezuela,

there's so little attention to the extreme violence and the extreme repression of the Colombian government.

We also talk about how the Colombian government is extremely closely linked to drug cartels,

drug trafficking, organized crime networks, and how the money from drug trafficking

keeps all of these far-right anti-socialist anti-left-wing networks running.

I mean, as we talk about in this episode,

even Wall Street itself is fundamentally based on the Colombian drug trade and the violence

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