(Forwarded) More than 40 Organisations had called internationally for protests against Clintons visit to Colombia and the US war plan for Colombia. There were demonstrations in many cities in the United States, and in numerous Latin American countries the population took to the streets against the ongoing US intervention in Colombia. The Colombian liberation movement expressed its protest by a number of actions. In Vienna 60 persons rallied in front of the US embassy to express their solidarity with the Colombian population, who poses itself in its majority against the US-neo-liberal policy, which threatens the national sovereignty of Colombia and is fixing a status quo of violence and extreme social inequality. A speaker of the Movement for Social Liberation, one of the participating organisations, called attention to the new pattern of war policy in the age of globalisation: " In Yugoslavia they spoke about ethnic cleansing, in the case of Colombia they are lamenting about drugs, which are calling for an intervention `in the best interest of humanity�. But every critical person, who is not manipulated by the globalised media apparatus, will see that it is the USA itself, which is closely linked to the international drug traffic. Behind its policy is only the interest to once again control a region in Latin America, whose population is no more tolerating the dictatorship of neo-liberal globalisation." The representative of the Colombian community was directing her speech against Clintons visit "because the president of the USA is bringing only weapons and war, but no peace. True peace in Colombia can only bee achieved with social justice." In this sense the participants of the rally gave their support for the legitimate demand of the insurgent movement, because it is the best way for true democratic change and social justice, both preconditions for peace. The US-policy on the other hand is a new chapter in the catalogue of crimes of neo-liberal globalisations against the peoples of the world. *************************************** International Leninist Current (ILC) Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI) PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comports.com/ilc www.antiimperialista.com
