What I meant by "behaving" is that people who don't know about the subject haven't written in any commentary explaining that they (and Colombian right and USA) are correct and everybody else is a terrorist. So, here's the latest from La Estrella here.
http://www.estrelladepanama.com/
I'm kind of in a hurry. Don't use an off the shelf thing like babelfish. Ask Spartacus or Lovebabz to translate. SuziRiot can do it also, but she's kind of jammed up with family matters.
Here's the back story:
Essentially, this had all been resolved starting at the end of last year into January. The FARC had released two hostages amid much fanfare and Uribe had pretty much gotten the credit for defying his US masters and getting this done diplomatically with the FARC with Chavez's help.
Two weeks went by with nothing just a pretty funny skit by Colombia's version of SNL that had him, Chavez, Correa and Morales at a party and him as the nerd trying to fit in with the "cool crowd."
Then Uribe comes back with all this renewed anti-Chavez vigor.
There had also been a dust-up between USA and Ecuador. Royal Dutch/Shell's exploration lease had run out and Correa said they weren't going to carry it over but rather put it up for public auction of all oil companies. USA tried to pressure Correa who got pissed-off and closed the US military bases and kicked whatever CIA it could find out. Bush lamented this and Correa said "he can have an army base outside Quito and Guayaquil if I can have one in South Beach!" And that was that.
Don't believe a word you read in MSM. This has nothing to do with "leftist" or "rightist" or "communist" or "destabilization" or any of those labels which are meaningless. It all has to do with lucre: crude oil, cocaine, and land [that Latin America had been "lost" under the same people in Bush Admin that had been responsible for keeping right-wing dictators in power during Reagan adminstration.]
Of course it goes way way back further, but I've got to go. I'll teach history next week.
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interestingly, the New York Times, today, as of 8:48 AM, has nothing (on the front page at least) about this.
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also, off-topic, and since you are a self-proclaimed 'stat-geek' ... are you aware that Joseph Juran has passed away? he was 103 years old and married to his wife for ... get this! 81 years !!
holy moly.
Coke prices will go up.
Damn.
AXN: I didn't know he had died. I'll check obit. Not surprised that the Tissue Of Lies hasn't weighed in. Their "Latin bureau" as such consists of one man, Larry Rohter, and one photographer.
Also, having once backed the aborted coup against Chavez, I think Keller is twice-shy.
DAVE: I doubt it. Expect normal-normal. You don't see COLOMBIANO-90% there because Colombiano gets turned into street-mush. For the discriminating palate, expect PERUANO or BOLIVIANO-85 at $160/8er or so I have read.
why can shell and occidental just battle it out
because there's lukoil and conoco and total and BP and pemex and delta and about a million and one others
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