President Álvaro Uribe made a strong statement against the arms race in the region. In his intervention before the 64th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the President of Colombia said that it is worrying that instead to increase the cooperation for security and peace for the peoples, some leaders accelerate the arms race and even confess their war mood. (more…)
On 2009/09/23, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
On 2009/01/26, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
President Morales was optimistic with the results of the referendum that gives 59.1 percent of approval to the new Constitution. Photo El Diaro | http://www.eldiario.net/
A new Constitution for Bolivia, the main horse of battle of president Evo Morales, was supported by the 59.1 percent of the voters. However, the results showed also the big division in the South American country. The situation would conduct to an agreement among the two parts in order to approve the new Constitution. (more…)
The International Center of Fairs and Conventions of San Salvador on October 2008, the place of the 18th Ibero-American Summit. Photo Wikimedia Commons.
2008 was the last year of the economic boom of Latin America that started in 2003 and was slowed by the world financial crisis, according with the economical regional institute for Lat. America, CEPAL. However, it is the region of the world better prepared to face the global economical recession thanks to that boom. (more…)
On 2008/12/07, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
“It is necessary military action against the guerrilla,” said the former hostess of Farc, Ingrid Betancourt in her visit to Bolivia. “The guerrilla is completely back to the Colombian reality“, “They became a drug cartel“, “They lost their ideologies and their leaders became bourgeois due to the benefits of the drug traffic“, were the words of Betancourt to the Bolivian press.
Picture by Fabio Gismondi.
On 2008/11/07, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
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.) (more…)
On 2008/11/03, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
President Morales: "There were DEA agents who worked to conduct political espionage and to fund criminal groups so they could launch attacks on the lives of authorities, if not the president." (Picture by Javno.com)
The deteriorating relations among the leftist government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and Washington came to its worst moment last week when he accused the Drug Enforcement Agency of the Unites States (DEA) of conspiracy against his government. He ordered the suspension of any activity in the Bolivian territory, a country that is enlisted as the third world producer of cocaine after Peru and Colombia. Morales asked UNASUR, the Association of the South American nations, to replace what DEA is doing in the region in the international fight against drugs. (more…)
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