Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Latin America news roundup - March 16, 2010
TOP STORY - Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out (Democracy Now!)
Brazil - Follow Brazil's Example (The Nation)
Brazil - Da Silva welcomed as symbol of peace (Jerusalem Post)
Ecuador - Ecuador's Correa comes up with a great idea (Lat/Am Daily)
Honduras - Honduras After the Coup: Fear and Defiance (OpEdNews)
Honduras - Transcript of Interview with Exiled Los Necios Militant Gilberto Ríos (Quotha)
Latin America - Watch Apology of an Economic Hitman (Daily Paul)
Uruguay - Uruguay's new president promises policy continuity (Xinhua)
World - Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation (Huffington Post)
World - A New Capitalist Order (Global Finance)
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6 comments:
Your blog is really useful. Thanks for compiling the links.
Glad the blog could be of use. I'll try to update it every day.
Best,
Justin
I have disliked the left but lately I am correcting some of my ideas :
Jorge Enrique Robledo, the most voted leftist from the Polo Democratico Alternativo increased his votes from 80.969 votes in year 2006 to 152.936 in March 2010. ( Extremely Beautiful Result and most amazing because his party lost many seats )
That reflects a combative guy in Congress that fought against the corruption of Agricultural Subsidies and the Bad Behavior of the President's sons buying lands whose value was going to be increased by Executive Decision ( Zonas Francas for Free Trade ) ... He was the best of anti-corruption.
It seems that Lawyer Germán Navas Talero, member of the Chamber of Representatives for Bogotá has survived in his seat. This guy is extremely important because as a "Constitutionalist" he sued the President and the members of the Senate for breaking the Constitution with the third term for Uribe.
I dislike leftists Chavez Style but I am glad that some leftists that fought and will fight for cleanliness and against corruption of the executive survive in Congress.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
It is a Great Colombian Custom that the sons of a President become rich without working or struggling, just by presidential decree.
And giving millions of dollars in agricultural subsidies to Uribe's rich relatives, friends and political supportes, is just stealing the taxpayers money, a theft.
That is why the fight of these two congressmen from the left : Jorge Enrique Robledo and Germán Navas Talero should be underlined and spotlighted.
Among the misery, poverty and violence of Colombia, having a Constitutional Court that fights the president with such energy and resolution and that forbids third presidential terms forever is a little ray of hope for a better future.
And definitely Uribe was on his way to become a satrap and dictator, another clown like Chavez.
The Future of Foreign Policies :
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Vicente Duque
Indeed, Jorge Robledo seems like an inspirational political figure. Thanks for passing that along, Vicente.
Justin Delacour said ( in another Forum about Latin American Politics ) :
"The very existence of the FARC as a guerrilla force is a liability for the entire Latin American Left. Firstly, the FARC provides a pretext for the U.S. to intervene in the region and to set up military bases that nobody in the Left wants."
Well said Justin, I agree.
The references to the History of Colombia in the 1940s and 1950s are very appropriate, also the reference to Violent President of the Rigth Laureano Gomez, a guy that admired Mussolini and Hitler, at least before the Second World War.
It is also appropriate to say that the son of Laureano Gomez, name Alvaro Gomez was a conservative Intellectual, a man of peace, very intelligent, later murdered, he can not be blamed for what his father did, when he was very young. Alvaro Gomez contributed to pacify the M-19, and to a more liberal and tolerant Constitution of year 1991. ( That installed many Constitutional Defenses, Defenses for the Rights of People, and Tutelas or Tutorships to protect the offended, kind of Ombudsmen )
So everything is not chaotic and disastrous in the History of Colombia. And the fact that a good man was the son of a bad man is a plus.
The Future of Foreign Policies :
Prophesizing.com
Vicente Duque
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