Posts Tagged ‘Colombia’

Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated

Oliver Dodd | January 20, 2026

Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation was produced?

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Selective Security: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico

Alke Jenss | April 18, 2023

In May 2011, 20,000 people took to the streets of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista support movement had called for a ‘march of silence’ against the government’s so-called ‘war on drugs’. Women, children, and men walked in silence, holding up banners saying “no more [...]

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