Colombia: two farmers murdered by the Army in social uprising in Catatumbo

Two people were killed by the violent repression of the Colombian Army against farmer protests in the district of Catatumbo (Norte de Santander). The soldiers shoot with real fire against some 7000 farmers in Ocaña and Tibú, when these attempted to take the local airport as part of their protest. 

The victims are Leonel Jácome and Edilson Jaimes, whose injuries were caused by live fire. There are also many arrested, eight injured and one severely intoxicated by the inhalation of tear gas. 

The Catatumbo farmers have been protesting for the last seven days in demand of the declaration of their district as Agricultural Reservation Zone and a plan to gradually replace drug cultivation by sustainable crops. 

The ultra-reactionary President of Colombia, José Manuel Santos (a posh born in an oligarchic family) claimed with absolutely no evidence that the protests were "infiltrated" by the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), what has been interpreted as an invitation to have the farmers massacred. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Saudi Arabia asks Israel to attack Syria

The Machiavellic leader of all Islamist Fascist groups, the Theocratic Dictator of Saudi Arabia, has asked formally, albeit secretly, to the Genocide and Apartheid Regime in Palestine (Israel) to attack Syria, according to Al Manar (reflected by Webguerrillero[es]). 

In the secret diplomatic note the Saudi Theocrats would have asked Israel to keep sending weapons to the Islamist Fascist terrorist groups in Syria, where they seem to be losing the war by moments. Almost simultaneously, a conference of Islamist Theocracies, so-called "Friends of Syria", met in Qatar (whose "illustrated" dictator owns Al Jazeera), where they issued a communication emphasizing the urgency of sending weapons to the Islamist terrorist in Syria, while babbling about the need of a "political solution".

Navarre: massive demonstration against the corrupt government

Some 10,000 Navarrese citizens marched this Saturday through Iruñea-Pamplona to demand the resignation of the beleaguered corrupt President Yolanda Barcina (UPN, unionist right) so she can be tried in Navarre (and not in Spain). 

Barcina resists in her role of President of the Chartered Government thanks to the "passive" support of the other large unionist party PSOE. Polls predict that the twin-party system that has ruled the Old Kingdom for decades will completely lose control of the Navarrese Parliament, and therefore the Government, as soon as elections are held, but these are not scheduled to happen until 2015 (however they can be called in advance, something the Navarrese People clearly demands).

People at the march chanted slogans like "Thieves out of our institutions", "UPN out", "There is solution: Barcina resignation and bankers to jail", "Out Enrique Maya" (mayor of Pamplona), "One, two, three, four, let them give back what they stole" and also "this is Ali Baba's cave", while in front of the UPN see. 

Source: Gara[es].

Turkey: marching again to Taksim in spite of repression

Istanbul, one of the largest cities of Europe... and Asia. It ranks only second in Europe (after Moscow) and is the first of West Asia, a position disputed with Teheran. It hosts some 14 million inhabitants, 18% of all people with Turkish documents, almost as many as the Netherlands. 

Yesterday the citizens marched again to Taksim Square by the many thousands, wearing red carnations. Police kept them at bay with difficulty and lots of gas and water cannons.   

In the last days police was behaving in a more tolerant way and people could use Taksim to pay homage to the victims of repression (photo below). But the street battles are back. 

After being expelled by police, people gathered in huge numbers in Istiklal and Siraselviler streets, not far away (photo below). 

At least 31 demonstrators have been sentenced to preventive prison by especial ad-hoc tribunals in Istanbul and Ankara in this journey alone.

Along with this march, yesterday alone there were 35 popular assemblies in most of the districts (each one a medium sized city on its own right) of the transcontinental megalopolis. At least three thousand gathered in Kadikoy alone (photo below), who proclaimed inclusion for all: women, religious and ethnic groups, homosexuals... while a consensus of sorts grew in favor of socio-economic boycott to the banks, multinational companies and commercial centers as form of struggle. 

Sources: Occupied Taksim (link 1, link 2), Webguerrillero[es] (link 1, link 2)

Italy: 100,000 march against unemployment in Rome

At least 100,000 Italians marched today through Rome in demand of jobs and tax equity. The march, called by the unions, was even backed, somewhat hypocritically by one of the two parties which support the coalition government, the Democratic Party. Of course this is nothing but posing for a photo but still the march clearly indicates that the anger in Italy against the Capitalist socio-economic chaos is growing at the same time as unemployment grows. 

Source: Webguerrillerohttp://periodicodigitalwebguerrillero.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/100-mil-trabajadores-italianos.html[es].

Bulgaria: eighth day of massive protests against mafia dictatorship

We have various governments and parties and the same mafia behind them which never changes. 

Sounds familiar? That is how one protester explained his motivation to be once again in the streets of Sofia, which, along with other cities, has been shattered by popular protests in the last week. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es] (includes video).

Spanish actor Willy Toledo moves to Cuba and speaks out again

Guillermo "Willy" Toledo has won several prizes but he is best known maybe for his compromise with popular struggles in Spain and abroad alike, as well as his blunt honesty. Recently he announced he is moving to Cuba because he feels the need to be in direct contact with the lively dynamics of Latin America. Digital Newspaper Webguerrillero reproduces today an interview[es] with him, of which I translate some small fragments:

They have always told me: "if you like Cuba so much, why don't you move there". Well, I am already in Cuba... I imagine now the chief editors and the lackeys of their masters in the newspapers' redactions squeezing their brains to see how they could discredit me and all they could muster was that one: to publish a photo of a mansion with butlers, chaffeur and swimming pool... and all the fantasized privileges that the Cuban state gives those who defend it... well, it is radical and absolutely false. 

...

I am aware that I have been vetoed [in Spain, because of his compromise with Cuba] for various jobs in TV and cinema. What dimension does this have? I can't say because, excepting all these cases that I know for sure, I will never get to know if they said: "don't give this job to Willy Toledo". I am persuaded that this happens, exactly the same that there are dozens or even hundreds of political prisoners in my country just for expressing their opinions, just for being activists of the Left, of the Revolutionary Left especially, be it in the Basque Country, in Madrid, in Andalusia, in Catalonia wherever... Recently some Catalan Anarchists were arrested just for expressing their opinions in Facebook; that is the democratic state we live in. I am, I have always been very conscious of the consequences that being active in the Left, or the "extreme left" as they say, may carry.

... I keep an eye in Spain and when they need me I will be back there. When everything explodes, because it will explode, there will be a social uprising and there will be a true frontal opposition in the streets against the criminal government ruling in the Spanish state, I will be the first one to join. 

... would not I be a well-known actor I would probably be in jail right now, in prison in Spain; that is the sensation I have, they have tried it a couple of times but I think they calculated that having me in prison is not in their interest... by the moment, because there are many young men and women in jail who never had the media repercussion that there was the two times I was arrested.

Note: he was arrested once at a protest in the Spanish Congress in solidarity against the Moroccan massacre of the Peace and Dignity Camp of Gdeim Izik, West Sahara. Then he was also arrested when participating in a General Strike picket, suffering, as many others, false accusations. 

In the case of the General Strike many comrades who were arrested that very same night were kept prisoners for months in the jails of the Spanish state where - according to the European Union, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and local anti-torture groups - still today, in the year 2013, prisoners are brutally tortured in police stations and prisons, something that never happened in Cuba.