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About LinkBackshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5024428.stmColombia's President Alvaro Uribe has been re-elected in a landslide election victory, taking 62% of the vote, the country's electoral commission says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5024428.stmColombia's President Alvaro Uribe has been re-elected in a landslide election victory, taking 62% of the vote, the country's electoral commission says.
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I wonder what the rejection from the Cokeanistas will be.
Dan Sullivan. I was back but we still couldn't all have a vote.
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I smell a rat! He was elected, democratically, by the people.......he must be a proto tyrant in the making......ahhhhh......of sorry, I thought we were talking about Hugo Chavez......or Evo Morales........
If I could mass-sterilise the planet, I would. Seriously.
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Its a populist dictatorship!Originally Posted by The OD
Where's the mainstream media with a well prepared smear job/profile similar to a production of 'Springtime for Hitler'?
Who will call the Southern Command?..... to get an aircraft carrier strike group to conduct a military exercise, I dunno, say about 50 kilometres* from Colombian territory?
etc etc... if only the left could be so diligent in wingnuttery
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/17/ ... 96_txt.htm
Colombia: Uribe Must End Attacks on Media
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=47465Government Should Investigate Charges of Extrajudicial Executions, Fraud
(New York, April 17, 2006) - Instead of attacking the news media for reporting allegations of criminal activity in a Colombian intelligence agency, President Álvaro Uribe should ensure a full investigation of the charges, Human Rights Watch said today.
Over the last two weeks, major news media have extensively reported on allegations of paramilitary infiltration of the Colombian executive branch's intelligence agency (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, or DAS), targeted killings of labor union leaders and academics, and electoral fraud in the 2002 presidential elections. President Uribe has reacted by charging the news media with being dishonest and malicious, and with harming Colombian democratic institutions.
"Journalists are obliged to cover these alarming allegations of corruption and human rights abuses by the presidency's intelligence service," said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. "President Uribe's aggressive response raises suspicion about whether he actually wants the truth known, and has a chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of expression."
Uribe singled out individual commentators and journalists, including Alejandro Santos, who directs the prestigious newsmagazine Semana, and Ramiro Bejarano, a distinguished attorney appointed to a high-level commission established last year to investigate corruption in the DAS. ....
Colombian President confirms plan to assassinate Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias took place in Bogota...
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That's your job instead
Evil pro American dictator v Good anti-American democrats.
A variation on the Punch and Judy theme!
There was pleasure in paradise, but no excitement - Milan Kundera
That's your job instead
Considers ignore/censorship....
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