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A look at the situation in Colombia

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Tags: Colombia, human rights, Chiquita, cocaine, coca, drug war, paramilitary, Uribe

Tonight WMNF presents the film Plan Colombia at two locations: The Tampa Pitcher Show and Nova 535. Both films start at 7 p.m.

We'll hear some excerpts from the film and then we'll speak with Mario Murillo an associate professor of Communication at Hofstra University in New York and the author of Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest and Destabilization. He is currently finishing a book about the indigenous movement in Colombia and its uses of community media. Murillo writes a ...