[rockwool]

But he's in a world of **** ever since he said he wanted to shut down an investment company that a few million Colombians had invested everything they had in; cocain farms, pigs, dogs, horses, everything..

BOGOTA, Nov 26 (IPS) - Five thousand people chanting anti-government slogans in the Colombian capital’s central Bolívar Square reflected the sharp fall in popularity of right-wing President Álvaro Uribe, whose bid to reform the constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2010 has suffered serious setbacks in Congress.

Economic activities have been brought to a halt for the past week in the two provinces by a general strike and violent protests in which several people were injured Wednesday in the crackdown by the security forces.

"We all used to be Uribe supporters," a protester in Bolívar Square told IPS, while others around him agreed. The shift in public opinion could drag along with it more than four million Colombians who invested their savings in DMG, according to official figures.

I have to say that I find it strange that in a country that is supposed to be the opposite of Venezuela two people in just this interview refuse to give their names, or even false names, so that they wont have to suffer any retaliatons from the government/paramilitaries. They just gave one single initial.

With respect to the accusation that DMG was actually laundering drug money, Saúl Español, an activist with the movement that is fighting the eviction of 900,000 families who have been unable to meet their mortgage payments, said the government also receives drug money, but without redistributing it like DMG.

Just like Greece who up until late 90's didn't say anything about all the Marijuana that was growing among the corn and tomato fields.

Finance Minister Óscar Zuluaga said in the Tuesday night session in the Senate that DMG was "a mafia created to undermine the state," and alleged that it has ties with drug traffickers, far-right paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas.

Whoa, Tony Montana was never that well conected, from the far-right to the far-left, DMG should get the Nobel Peace Price...

The more than four million signatures collected to demand a referendum on the re-election question, in a multi-million dollar campaign whose source of financing was not clear, were transported to the electoral authority’s offices in armoured trucks that belonged to a security transportation company with ties to DMG, which was also taken over by the government.

Anybody want to speculate on where the money came from?

Due to the loss of those two votes, a committee in the lower house of Congress voted down the draft law Wednesday night -- the first of four votes needed to pave the way for a referendum, which some observers now say is impossible.

Personally, I have no problem with presidents/prime ministers running multiple terms, it works just fine in Sweden and Greece. I just hate to see that fascist continue to **** up Latin America.


http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44878

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Opening line on kidnappings: 19
Opening line on executions: 11
Over/Under on days till things start going south: 13

Place yer bets...

 

[rockwool]

What?!! Have you read or seen something on TV about this?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

What?!! Have you read or seen something on TV about this?

Nope. Just guessing that this might turn into another Extraditables-esque sit-chi-a-tion.....

 

[rockwool]

Nope. Just guessing that this might turn into another Extraditables-esque sit-chi-a-tion.....

Or maybe he'll just grab a few hundred of his shoes and make it to like Imelda Marcos.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Or maybe he'll just grab a few hundred of his shoes and make it to like Imelda Marcos.

Heh....that'd be awesome. I can see the headline now:

El Presidente caught at Bogota Int'l smuggling Crocs not coke

 

[rockwool]

Heh....that'd be awesome. I can see the headline now:

El Presidente caught at Bogota Int'l smuggling Crocs not coke

-The President was quoted saying "they're Hush Puppies" to the customs officer.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

"I know nutting about theees hush monies...."

 

[rockwool]

"I know nutting about theees hush monies...."

I can only pronounce that with a Russian accent, just like Stellan Skarsgård does in Armageddon where he plays a cosmonaut. My Spano-dish is quite allright, but my Span-glish sucks..






O'yea, Chavez changed his mind after the regional elections that were recently held (but not reported here on PAWN!), he wants to run for a third term and wants the referendum to take place in February.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4018

While the vast majority of Chávez’s supporters appear to applaud the amendment, a few critical voices within the Bolivarian movement have expressed themselves. For example, Vladimir Villegas, a former president of the state television station and vice-minister of foreign affairs during Chávez’s presidency, questioned the amendment proposal in an interview with the news site noticias24.com.

“What is the objective, that Chavez stays in power or that the [revolutionary] process is maintained? Wouldn’t it be a great success if the process continued without its supreme leader?” said Villegas.

“A leader who is promoting a political project should work so that this project endures, beyond his own management,” Villegas continued. “With this rhetoric that everyone who criticizes is a traitor or counter-revolutionary, the president will become more and more alone,” Villegas concluded.

That's what Fidel has been working for, and that's why all Cubans didn't find it to be such a big deal when he left office this past winter. The calmness the Cubans took it with was reported in Swedish press to be a down-play of their part. Something that I think shows how little the press understands the mentality on that island.

 

[Samirol]

I posted it in the Venezuela thread