“’Land and the hunger for land’ is uniting rural and urban workers.”

Afro-Colombians fear for the lives of two leaders of the Black Communities Process, or PCN, the main organization defending the collective land rights of Afro-descended peoples.

“We need a peace movement of a new type,” said Dr Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Dubosian scholar.

Trump national security advisor John Bolton “is simply a militarist,” said Phyllis Bennis, director of the New International Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in Washing