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</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Anonymous Colombia Puts Duque on the Ropes with Massive Hacking Operation</h1>May 6, 2021</div>
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<p>The Anonymous group has been active during the human rights crisis
in Colombia, sending a strong message to Iván Duque and taking down
webpages of the Army, Senate, and Presidency.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the international anarchist organization Anonymous
reported through social media networks that it had returned “to Colombia
due to the injustices generated” in the context of police and military
repression against protests that have left 19 dead, 89 disappeared, and
hundreds injured in the past week, according to the National
Ombudsperson’s Office. However, Anonymous often remains silent regarding
the near-weekly massacres that have occurred in the South American
country since the signing of the “peace” agreements in 2016, and even
more frequently since Iván Duque took office in late 2018. The United
Nations reported 66 massacres in the year 2020 alone.</p>
<p>In a first action, Anonymous called the Government of the President
of Colombia, Iván Duque, a fascist and narco-paramilitary, and accused
him of perpetrating “the largest massacre recorded in the world during
2021.”</p>
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“The pig government of Iván Duque and his <em>paraco</em> (paramilitary)
boss Álvaro Uribe is responsible for leading a massacre after a tax and
health reform, with which they seek to increase the hunger and poverty
of the people in the midst of the difficult situation of the COVID-19
pandemic,” wrote the hacktivist group.</p>
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<p>Later, Anonymous confirmed that it had hacked the official pages of
the Army, the Senate, and the Presidency of Colombia, as a form of
support for civilians facing brutal repression.</p>
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According to local media, the group revealed the email addresses and
passwords of at least 168 members of the Armed Forces. In addition,
Anonymous wrote in a tweet that the Army was generating “panic” with its
statements that guerrillas had been killing demonstrators, when in
reality it was the very same military that was “massacring its own
people.”</p>
<p>Hours later, Anonymous infiltrated the Senate website and put it out
of service for a couple of hours. Towards the end the day, through
Twitter, Anonymous assumed responsibility for the hack of the
Presidency’s website.</p>
<p><a href="https://orinocotribune.com/colombias-piedad-cordoba-confronts-duque-his-vice-president-what-would-this-pair-be-saying-if-the-massacre-was-in-venezuela-facebook-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED
CONTENT: Colombia’s Piedad Córdoba Confronts Duque & his Vice
President: What Would This Pair be Saying if the Massacre was in
Venezuela? + Facebook Censorship</a></p>
<p>Through that social network, Anonymous also said: “We will sabotage
any trend that is not relevant or that tries to divert attention from
the systematic violation of human rights that is taking place today in
Colombia.”</p>
<p><strong>Why are Colombians protesting?</strong><br>
The protests began on April 28 with a national strike called by various
social movements and trade union organizations, in rejection of a tax
reform proposal that would particularly affect working-class Colombians,
due to the expansion of the tax base and the collection of a Value
Added Tax (VAT) of 19%.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that the Colombian president withdrew the tax reform
bill, which led to the resignation of Finance Minister Alberto
Carrasquilla, the demonstrations have continued, based on a list of
demands by the national strike agenda including improvements to the
inefficient health system, addressing the murder of social leaders, and
providing more economic support for vulnerable sectors of the population
during the pandemic. To this is now added the demand that Duque’s
administration determine responsibility for the deaths and injuries in
the mobilizations, and account for the disappeared.</p>
<p><em>Featured image: Colombian Army website, after the Anonymous hack, May 4, 2021. Photo courtesy of HispanTV.</em></p>
<p>(<a href="https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/colombia/491949/anonymous-protestas-duque" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RedRadioVE</a>) by Jose Manuel Blanco Diaz, with Orinoco Tribune content</p>
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