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Oliver Dodd
(L to R) Jesus Santrich, Ivan Marquez, Hernan Velasquez, and
OPINION / 6 October 2022
6 October 2022
Based on the strategy of hybrid warfare, the Colombian state, working with US intelligence, has been carrying out covert military operations and targeted assassinations inside Venezuela, reports OLIVER DODD
A Colombian protester against neoliberalism this spring
Adelante! / 4 December 2021
4 December 2021
OLIVER DODD says Colombia's regime is not just an abuser of its own people, but a lynchpin of US dominance in Latin America
Jesus Santrich escorted by Colombian police
Features / 21 June 2021
21 June 2021
The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains OLIVER DODD
Thousands of protesters, bystanders and journalists have bee
Features / 7 May 2021
7 May 2021
The Duque government is slipping back into Latin America's old methods of controlling the poor — from the streets of Bogota, OLIVER DODD reports on the explosion of state terrorism and the resistance it has provoked
Although its is currently a fraction of the size of the orig
Features / 16 March 2021
16 March 2021
Inside a base in the Catatumbo mountains, OLIVER DODD speaks to Comandante Villa Vazquez in the first ever face-to-face interview with a senior figure in the recently re-established guerilla army
While states like Colombia, Britain and the US all proudly p
Features / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Researcher OLIVER DODD draws on interviews and field work to look at some of the tactics that the Latin American state, with the support and guidance of the US, has used against Marxist rebels in its 50-year civil war
So far none of the repeated assassination and coup attempts
Features / 22 May 2020
22 May 2020
OLIVER DODD explains that big business in Colombia has everything to gain from extending its war against the poor within its own borders to the fledgling socialist state that it neighbours
Masks are only used during photos as ELN militants leave the
Features / 29 March 2020
29 March 2020
OLIVER DODD reports on the National Liberation Army's general strike backed up with guns
Paramilitary death squads have murdered more than 150 ex-Far
Features / 2 October 2019
2 October 2019
Two years into a permanent ceasefire, Colombia's now unarmed Marxist revolutionaries are seeing little return for their truce – and a minority have even returned to war. OLIVER DODD reports from Colombia
Features / 21 May 2019
21 May 2019
OLIVER DODD exposes the role of wealthy groups, including multinationals like Coca Cola and United Fruit, in sponsoring paramilitary murder in Latin America
Masks are strictly used by ELN guerrillas to protect their i
Features / 8 April 2019
8 April 2019
Embedded researcher OLIVER DODD, who lived among the armed guerilla forces of the ELN, explains their origins, theory and practice
A woman guerilla of the ELN, Columbia's remaining armed comm
Features / 10 March 2019
10 March 2019
The new right-wing administration has cancelled talks and demanded the arrest of the insurgents' negotiating team - but the guerillas aren't beaten, writes OLIVER DODD