Continue reading »
The last days of Álvaro Uribe Vélez as president of the Colombians has been especially active preparing the setting for the next leader at the Nariño House. Putting things ‘at place’ inside and outside, the president has declared for example that those who denounced the existence of mass graves in Macarena are ‘enemies of the democratic security‘ and that peace process proposals are strategies of ‘terrorist in order to recover‘, while his government presented proves to OAS of guerrilla camps in Venezuela, causing the expected anger of Chávez with his subsequent breakdown of diplomatic relations with Colombia.
Continue reading »
President Barack Obama called Colombian elected president Juan Manuel Santos to congratulate his victory to the Nariño House. Obama manifested also his interest in strength the relations between both countries. At the same time, Santos is preparing what is going to be his government after August 7, meeting national personalities and reveling his perspectives over different issues of national concern.
Continue reading »
President Uribe belongs to that line that considers drugs’ legalization as a mistake. In line with that idea, he lead a new law in the Congress to prohibit any quantity of drug usage in the country, including what is known as personal dose that was tolerated. Critics to the new legislation said recently that it will bring sick people to prison with such law. President Uribe answered that sick people (referring to drug addicts), must be treated with rehabilitation programs.
The financial crisis became a priority for the new president of US, Barack Obama. He has recognized the severity of the economic crisis. Recently he said that the banks were the direct responsable for the crisis. As his strategy, he chose individuals who would bring continuity to economic policies and reassure the markets, according to his statements. By his part, the former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, said to this: "Even if Kant, Plato and Aristotle come to life again at once together with the brilliant economist late John Kenneth Galbraight, they will not be able to resolve the antagonist contradictions, every moment more frecuent and deep." Art by Haro.
The Cuban embargo, migration, fight on drug trafficking and changes, were the claims of the Latin American governments to new elected president Baruck Obama.
Latin American countries welcome the election of the new USA president, Barack Obama. From leftist governments like the ones of Caracas and La Paz to the most USA friends like Bogotá and Mexico, there were words of sympathy for the Democratic Senator, who is also the first Afro-American person to be elected as president of the North American country. For many Latin American governments, Obama represents a big change in the foreign politics of Washington toward the region, especially in what is expected on migration policies and trade.
While a Bush administration was more concentrated in its Iraq war, the Middle East conflict, the war on terror and the financial crisis, Latin America considered in general that the Washington-Lat. America agenda was put aside by the Bush administration. At the other side, countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have shown in recent years a strong position against the USA policies in the region. Even countries like Mexico, an important USA ally, got its differences with the White House for situations like the increase of Mexican illegal citizens in the USA territory. A common will to end a 46 years embargo of Cuba was a claim of Latin America recently. All these events will be faced by a new US president that never has been southern of the Rio Grande, like it was pointed out by John McCain in the McCain-Obama last debate. However, Obama has promised to open a dialogue with controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías, while continuing the support of the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia. Obama is also favorable to the politics of president Álvaro Uribe Vélez to combat FARC guerrillas, even outside Colombian, as it happened already in a Colombian army incursion into the Ecuadorian territory in March 2008 (ref. La Nación: “Operativo anti-FARC desata grave crisis diplomática.” March 3 2008.)
Continue reading »
Online March Against
Child Violence in Colombia 2010
Join it now
and say something
against child abusers in our country.
0 | Unique Visitors |
Recent Comments