{"id":340620,"date":"2017-12-22T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-massacre-of-farmers-in-us-colombia-war-on-drugs\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:04:45","slug":"a-massacre-of-farmers-in-us-colombia-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-massacre-of-farmers-in-us-colombia-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Massacre of Farmers in US-Colombia &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On October 5, 2017, police opened fire on unarmed farmers in Tumaco, Colombia. Eight were killed, with dozens more shot. The massacre was part of a crackdown on coca farmers in the &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; despite an agreement for crop substitution &#8212; and amidst new threats from Trump, ordering the government to use more force or face consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire Files goes on-the-ground to investigate the massacre, interviewing witnesses and casualties. Abby Martin visits recently-destroyed farms, uses hidden cameras to confront soldiers about the operations and explores the context of such a killing less than a year after the historic peace deal ending the country&#8217;s 53-year civil war.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/42995-empire-files-a-massacre-of-farmers-in-us-colombia-war-on-drugs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5, 2017, police opened fire on unarmed farmers in Tumaco, Colombia. Eight were killed, with dozens more shot. The massacre was part of a crackdown on coca farmers in the &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; despite an agreement for crop substitution &#8212; and amidst new threats from Trump, ordering the government to use more force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}