* Spain: A recent study found that about 1.6 million Latin Americans made part of Spain’s immigration boost over the past decade though the economic slowdown has lightened that influx.* Mexico: Is Mexico’s weak economy on the rebound? Senior central bank officials hope so.
* Cuba: A deal has been signed that will allow increased flights between Canada and Cuba.
* Colombia: Chiquita Brands International faces a civil lawsuit filed by the families of 19 missionaries slain by Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
Image – El Tiempo (A group of Ecuadorian and Colombian migrants protested anti-immigration sentiment in Spain).
Online Sources- Guardian UK, The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, Canadian Press, Cincinnati.com
Cannon Fodder and Turk's Head. Using the cat's paw to draw chestnuts from fire. Colombians in Afghanistan and Uribe becoming a despot - Toilet Paper and Imbecility
ReplyDeleteA friend said in a comment :
"For the left, these actions function as good propaganda, showing Uribe as a ball-less sycophant of US power"
That is totally correct, 100% right, The Colombian Government and the U. S. Government are acting like the best Advertising Agency for Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Evo Morales, Fidel Castro, etc ...
The Good of sending these poors fellows to die is microscopic and the damage in public relations for Colombia and the USA is astronomical. These guys are nedeed in Colombia to keep order and rebuild a nation destroyed by war. To detonate the land mines planted by guerrillas and that kill peasant children every day in agricultural fields.
Americans do not know about the Colombian Troops and could not care less. Europeans do not know about these poor fellows, and don't give a damn, they are worried about their own citizens killed in an absurd, useless and lost war.
Cannon Fodder and Turk's Head. Using the cat's paw to draw chestnuts from the fire.
On the other hand Alvaro Uribe is acting like a despot in year 2010. He wants to be reelected changing the constitution of Colombia as if it were TOILET PAPER for his own personal use.
Fortunately the Constitutional Courts and their Judges are resisting this abuse of the Executive on the Constitution and the Judiciary.
There are two big scandals now that show the Tyranny and Despotism of Uribe :
SCANDAL 1 : The Agricultural Subsidies were given to the Friends, Relatives, Political Supporters and Cronies of Alvaro Uribe, billions of dollars. This guy has the ugly custom of blaming the lowest bureaucracy and the poorest government officials for his own faults. Even and idiot knows that the President knew that the Monies were paybacks to his chums.
SCANDAL 2 : He wants to reform the "Health Care" system of Colombia that was working very well for poor people and the middle class to make it a business, because he, his family and friends are the owners of the Insurance and Hospitals. But it is not reformed democratically by the Colombian Congress, but by decree, order, edict, fiat, ukase of the tsar, papal bull, ordain of the enthroned Imperial Ruler.
As if Obama could legislate in 5 minutes with the help of Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner.
And this guy wants to force a Republican Nation into being a Kingdom with a vitalicious president.
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