Colombia's opposition threatened with 'systematic extermination'

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2. Big business support makes them feel emboldened

Something similar recently happened in Argentina, where Provincial Congresswoman Patricia de Ferrari called on "green Ford Falcons" to go after opponents.

Green Ford Falcons, you'll recall, were the cars most often used to kidnap dissidents during Argentina's 'Dirty War' in the mid-1970s.

The Legislature of Córdoba Province (a hotbed of right-wing politics) suspended de Ferrari - but her party repudiated the suspension (!).

This is the same party (the UCR) whose very activism brought democracy to Argentina in 1912; they were instrumental in forcing the last dictatorship to call elections in 1983 (which the UCR won).

They've always made human rights and civic engagement their policy centerpieces - until Macri folded them into his hard-right 'Let's Change' coalition in 2015.

The UCR changed, alright. They're now little more than fascist enablers - not unlike Susan Collins.

Except the UCR doesn't even bother to express 'concern' anymore.