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Who is Simon Trinidad and why is he so important to Colombia's peace process?
Who is Simon Trinidad and why is he so important to Colombia's peace process? https://social.shorthand.com/telesurenglish/32PrODll3Mf/who-is-simon-trinidad PUBLISHED 7 APR 2016 Ricardo Palmera, aka Simon Trinidad, has spent 11 years in complete isolation in a U.S. "supermax" prison: a violation of the United Nations Convention against torture. Your opinion of Trinidad, one ... -
Simón Trinidad Could Bring Peace to Colombia — If He Can Get Out of America’s ...
Fifty years of bloody conflict in Colombia — thousands of deaths from firefights, sniper attacks, bombings, assassinations and mass executions — and it all comes down to this: a group of government negotiators and rebel leaders sitting around a big table, talking about land reform and crop subsidies and what ... -
Simon Trinidad, Imprisoned, Connects with Colombian Peace Process
APRIL 7, 2015 Simon Trinidad, Imprisoned, Connects with Colombian Peace Process by W. T. WHITNEY Ricardo Palmera, alias “Simon Trinidad,” is a political prisoner and more. Even as such, his sixty-year sentence and constant solitary confinement are extraordinary. Post- sentencing legal services are not always available. His mail is blocked, visitors ... -
An Interview with FARC Commander Simón Trinidad
An Interview with FARC Commander Simón Trinidad Garry M. Leech September 25, 2007 In January 1999, newly elected Colombian president Andrés Pastrana ceded an area of southern Colombia the size of Switzerland to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas as part of an agreement to begin peace talks. ...
