Colombian “Neo Nazis” deface memorial honoring victims of political violence in Bogota
Colombian Neo Nazis deface memorial honoring victims of political violence in Bogota
Apr 14, 2014 posted by Flora Baker
The vice presidential candidate for the Patriotic Union (UP) party, Aida Avella, has said a Bogota graffiti mural honoring 4,000 victims of UP-related political violence had been vandalized by a group of Colombians calling themselves Neo-Nazis, local media reported on Sunday night.
According to Avella, the group consisted of around fifty armed men. The reported on Sunday vandalism included a long strip of white paint across the large stretch of graffiti artwork, covered with slogans like fascism and totalitarianism and Out UP. Out FARC. Colombia is free. A photo posted to Avellas Twitter account showed tags on the mural from right-leaning groups Tercera Fuerza, Comando Radical and Cabezas Rapadas Nacionalistas.
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The Union Patriotica or Patriotic Union (UP) is a leftist political party that was co-founded by the guerrilla group, the FARC, in the mid-1980s. From 1986 to 1990, between four and six thousand members of the Patriotic Union were murdered, including presidential candidate, Bernardo Jaramillo, who was slated to run in 1990. 2013 marked the first time the UP was allowed to put forward political candidates in over a decade after having their legal status revoked in 2002 for lack of members and supporters.
Third Force
The members of Tercera Fuerza (Third Force), a right-wing group of Colombians with Nazi party leanings, were headed until recently by a man named Alfredo Devia, known as El Comandante by his followers. Devia was reportedly killed a week ago in a neighborhood of Bogota after making extortion payments in the area, according to El Espectador.
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