Dubya south of the border – the aftermath according to “Esteban Colberto”

As is to be expected there is a ton of analysis on the aftermath of U.S. President George W. Bush’s trip to Latin America. However, we’ll defer the last word to a segment from last night’s episode of “The Colbert Report” where host/”pundit” Stephen Colbert engages in an argument with his Hispanic alter ego- Esteban Colberto (image). Watch and laugh to this video while Colberto compares the president’s promises to “a whore from Juarez” (a bit insensitive, maybe?) and praises Latin America’s newfound ties to China.

In the words of Jonathan Swift, “satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

Links- AlterNet, TIME, Bay Area Indymedia, Political Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Comedy Central, The Latin Americanist

Image- Comedy Central