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February 25, 2002
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Dear Colleagues,
Authentic Journalism requires that all voices be heard. The overwhelming
collective and undisclosed bias of the commercial English-language news
agencies in their coverage of the Colombian conflict can be readily observed
by which parties are heard in their own words, and which are not allowed to
be heard.
Much has been said in recent days about the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia - Popular Army), but very little has been heard from the
rebel group. Yet on February 21, the FARC-EP issued a communique, posted on
the Internet in Spanish by the New Colombia News Agency, offering its
reaction to the U.S. and Colombian government-ordered declaration of war.
Today, Narco News translates and publishes that communiqu�:
http://www.narconews.com/
Narco News has published the FARC's own words before, including those of
writer Gabriel Angel, one of the dozen FARC leaders for whom the Colombian
State last week issued arrest warrants. Angel wrote to Narco News last June
with a submission for publication that remains archived on our Internet
site.
Our first mission at Narco News is that Latin American voices be heard, in
English, in their own words. Our editorial position today and forever is
that we refuse to censor those voices. Condoleeza Rice and the State
Department may have had success making deals with corrupted major media
organizations to censor the voices of parties in conflict, as occured last
autumn in the Afghanistan war. But they will have no such success with us.
For we are Authentic Journalists who understand that peace and true
democracy are impossible unless all voices are heard; unless journalists
break the information blockade.
from somewhere in a country called Am�rica,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
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