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Dolfi comments on These bureaucrats don’t let CAUCA progress

Terrorists are trrorists, whatever their ideological background is. But it is quite a different matter when state authorities are cooperating with them as it happens in Colombia with the paramilitaries. http://www.raulzelik.net/textarchiv/feuileton/sicherheitsgovernance.htm

Dolfi comments on Bases militares estadounidenses en Colombia

Even US officials admit that the USA is losing the war in Afghanistan: “Criticism by highest US military officer comes as officials admit the US is losing the war of ideas against the Taliban” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28/mullen-afghanistan-communication What makes you so sure that you would win a war in Colombia. Wasn´t it Che Guevara who said "let´s create three, four Vietnams"?

Dolfi comments on Corruption Perception Index 2009

"Aumenta la percepción de corrupción en Colombia Resultados del Índice de Percepción de Corrupción 2009 – IPC 2009- de Transparencia Internacional • Colombia ocupa el puesto 75 entre 180 países con una calificación de 3,7 sobre 10 (siendo 0 la calificación más baja y 10 la más alta). En los últimos siete años de esta medición, el país se había mantenido estancado en el puesto 70/180 países con una puntuación de 3,8/10. Para Transparencia por Colombia, la baja calificación de Colombia en esta medición y el descenso de cinco puestos en el ranking de 180 países reflejan que no ha habido avances sustanciales en la lucha contra la corrupción. La Corporación coincide Transparencia Internacional en afirmar que “cuando las instituciones básicas son débiles o inexistentes, la corrupción aumenta sin control y el saqueo de los recursos públicos potencia la inseguridad y la impunidad. La corrupción también instaura una creciente desconfianza en las mismas instituciones y los nuevos gobiernos encargados de garantizar la subsistencia y la estabilidad.” http://www.transparenciacolombia.org.co/INICIO/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/375/ItemID/193/Default.aspx

Dolfi comments on Why Plan Colombia has to go on

makopp5, your equation of Colombia with Uribe´s government and the ruling oligarchs is wrong.

Dolfi comments on These bureaucrats don’t let CAUCA progress

I knew your mindset ist the same as that of the Aguilas Negras (renamed former AUC). You coludn´t have expressed your support for the paramilitary terrorists more clearly.

Dolfi comments on Bases militares estadounidenses en Colombia

OK, let me rephrase it: What do you believe will happen if the FARC decide to attack one of these colombian bases manned and commanded and controlled by the USA and happen to kill some american citizens? And by the way, the FARC held american hostages in the past, do you really believe they would´nt kill them?An internationalization of the conflict surely is in the FARC´s interest, and the USA haven´t been very successful in fighting against guerillas the last years in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Dolfi comments on La frontera de las mentiras

Wow, Chavez brought the Paras to Venezuela! Couldn´t it be that they are in there because there is money to be made while at the same time fighting a government which is hostile to them. And, most of all, because neither the colombian police nor the colombian military do anything against it (like all over Colombia)?

Dolfi comments on Bases militares estadounidenses en Colombia

Still nobody is able to answer my simple question: What do you believe will happen if the FARC decide to attack one of these american bases and happen to kill some american citizens?

Dolfi comments on Chavez's policies go from bad to worse

He left Europe because here he has to pay for health and unemployment insurance and a much higher salary to his employees, what else?

Dolfi comments on La frontera de las mentiras

You still don´t have to say anything to the matter. In which way is Chavez responsible for the activities of colombin paramilitaries in the region? Are they fighting the FARC? If so, why do they have to do all that extortioning and killing of civilians?

Dolfi comments on U.S. Military Documents Show Colombia Base Agreement Poses Threat to Region

We´ve discussed WW II and the role of the USA earlier in this forum. I still can´t see why it should be necessary to provide the "“full spectrum operations ” reaching over the entire continent in order to fight drug traficking and terrorism in Colombia.

Dolfi comments on Bases militares estadounidenses en Colombia

Muahaha, do you really believe the americans would take orders from any colombian once they´re installed down there? You are joking. What do you believ will happen if the FARC decide to attack one of these american bases and happen to kill some american citizens? Probably you would wellcome a war with direct US involvement.

Dolfi comments on Yerba Mate in Santa Marta?

Forget it, nobody knows about mate in Colombia, at least in Medellín.

Dolfi comments on war within the next two years

As far as I can remember the US have been meddling with internal Latinamerican affairs for more than a hundred years, supporting right wing dictators and sometimes intervening directly with their military. So any latinamerican of a sane mind is put on alert by the perspective of US military bases in Colombia.

Dolfi comments on Chavez's policies go from bad to worse

As far as I know there is a Venezuela board on poorbuthappy, why don´t you post your anti Chavez stuff there, tasco?

Dolfi comments on U.S. Military Documents Show Colombia Base Agreement Poses Threat to Region

No, as we are strong enough to resist any possible US pressure, which Colombia surely isn´t. Ramstein Airbase is just a stopover for wounded US soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan before they go home. By the way: Garry Leech is a leftist and supporter of Chavez, and you are a reactionary and supporter of Uribe, so what? Let´s stick to the arguments. "The documents make evident that U.S. military objectives extend beyond Colombia’s borders, stating that the Palenquero Air Base “provides an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America.” So obviously theses bases are not for helping Colombia to fight Narcos and Guerillas, but to ensure US domination of the continent. Or not?

Dolfi comments on La frontera de las mentiras

So Chavez is responsible for the activities of colombian paramilitaries in the region? Just what the paracos say themselves: they are only reacting to the evil activities of communists, so they have to ask the local shops and taxi drivers for protection money and cut people to pieces with chainsaws and throw them into the river (like they´ve been doing for a long time in Colombia) all because of Chavez. You´re a joke

Dolfi comments on Bases militares estadounidenses en Colombia

No surpreise that nobody talks about what he is saying, only arguments against the man. Doesn´t he raise a vaild point? Suppose the FARC decide to attack one of these american bases and happen to kill some american citizens, what will happen then?

Dolfi comments on U.S. and Colombia bases deal signed, but what are the real intentions?

Sure, as Germany is a member of NATO and so takes part in the command structures. And of course Germany doesn´t have any conflict with it´s neighbouring countries which migth be fuelled by the presence of US troops.

Dolfi comments on The End is Near.....

Please take note that the rest of the world is not too interested in internal affairs of the 5% of the world population who live in the USA. This board is about Colombia, which still happens to be an independent nation and not a tropical garden of the USA.

Dolfi comments on Lula criticizes Colombia

I am glad I hit tasco66 and billyb with this one. "“I don’t know if the US should be concerned about Chavez or if Chavez should be concerned about the US. One position fuels the other" is indeed a statement that shows that your allegations of a united front of the USA, Uribe and most of Latin America against the leftist governments is merely a joke. At least you can´t count on Brazil, the major power of the continent.

Dolfi comments on Brazil punish Chavez for threaten to go into war against Colombia.

I doubt whether the foreign investments coming to Colombia will create jobs for the 17,8% (and rising number) of colombians living in extreme poverty. All the money stays in the upper circles if the state doesn´t intervene for a better distribution of income.

Dolfi comments on Chavez is lining up, but would the US public support another war effort

The USA didn´t attack Nicaragua directly in the 80ies, which would have been much easier than attacking Venezuela. Instead they financed, organized and trained local enemies of the nicaraguan government who then attacked and successfully put an end to the Sandinistas (at least for some time). The same seems to be happening right now at the frontier between Colombia and Venezuela where colombian paramilitaries serve as the new Contras.

Dolfi comments on Venezuela to welcome Ahmadinejad this year

Your president is going to visit China this month. So what?

Dolfi comments on Third Chocó trip

My wife´s family is from Istmina, maybe we go there some day to visit. Is there anything of interest?

Dolfi comments on Colombia: Pact to Expand U.S. Army Presence Signed

No, to the contrary of you concerning Uribe I am critical about many things that the venezuelan government does, e.g. the lack of creating an alternative to a petrol based economy or cooperation with Iran. But when Chavez says ""Está demostrado que el 80 por ciento de la droga en Colombia sale por allá por el Pacífico y ahí tiene los yanquis portaviones, tenían la base de Manta (en Ecuador). Los yanquis lo que hacen es propiciar el narcotráfico y cuidarlo", he is simply right.

Dolfi comments on Positive results of Plan Colombia

You must be joking.

Dolfi comments on Colombia: Pact to Expand U.S. Army Presence Signed

"Hasta en la Casa Blanca consumen cocaína, acusa Chávez Estados Unidos permite el tráfico de drogas para evitar que millones de consumidores norteamericanos caigan en la locura, ya que el nivel de adictos es tal que hasta en la Casa Blanca se consume cocaína, acusó el martes el presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez. Chávez volvió a cargar contra el acuerdo entre Bogotá y Washington para incrementar su cooperación militar para combatir el tráfico de drogas y las guerrillas izquierdistas, acusando a las tropas estadounidenses de favorecer y canalizar el tránsito de estupefacientes. "Está demostrado que el 80 por ciento de la droga en Colombia sale por allá por el Pacífico y ahí tiene los yanquis portaviones, tenían la base de Manta (en Ecuador). Los yanquis lo que hacen es propiciar el narcotráfico y cuidarlo", dijo. "Eso es verdad, verdaíta", sentenció. http://www.publico.es/agencias/reuters/266678/casa/blanca/consumen/cocaina/acusa/chavez

Dolfi comments on Colombia: Pact to Expand U.S. Army Presence Signed

Estas bases por lo menos son para combatir los gobiernos independientes que no sel gustan a los americanos, así lo dicen ellos mismos. Just go to the link I provided and read the rest. What is starting here seems to be something like the contra-war of the USA against Nicaragua in the 80ies. As you are german you might want to read this article: http://www.amerika21.de/nachrichten/inhalt/2009/nov/para_293847_tachira/ ("Beobachter fühlen sich unterdessen an die 1980er Jahre in Nicaragua erinnert. Dort hatten mit den Contras ähnliche informelle Verbände von den rechts regierten Nachbarländern aus die sozialistische Regierung der FSLN in einen zermürbenden Kleinkrieg verwickelt").

Dolfi comments on Aviones militares de EE.UU. podrán usar aeropuertos comerciales colombianos

EEUU manda y Colombia cumple, como siempre.

Dolfi comments on Colombia: Pact to Expand U.S. Army Presence Signed

It has now become clear what this pact is about: "Un documento del Departamento de Defensa de ese país, que SEMANA revela hoy, en una sola frase va al grano. Dice que poder utilizar la base de Palanquero es una "oportunidad única" para poder hacer un "completo espectro de operaciones" en una región "crítica" donde la "seguridad y la estabilidad están bajo constante amenaza" no sólo por narcoterroristas, sino -lo más revelador- por "gobiernos anti Estados Unidos". El gobierno de Colombia siempre ha negado que esté dando permiso para que usen sus bases en contra de otros países. Las implicaciones más sonoras serán más bien de índole político-estratégica. Y ahí viene el segundo punto del concepto del Consejo de Estado. Este tribunal asegura que se trata de "un acuerdo desbalanceado" porque la conclusión que queda luego de leerlo es que Estados Unidos manda y Colombia figura como cooperante." http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/yankees-welcome/130763.aspx These bases are not meant to fight drug traficking or Terrorism (at least not in the first place), but to fight governments in the region that are percieved as anti american by the US givernment. "Estados Unidos manda y Colombia figura como cooperante"

Dolfi comments on Colombian police kill Farc terrorist leader

jb_fastpitch, is there any doubt that you ara a reactionary?

Dolfi comments on Best Investment in Colombia

One could indeed compare the agricultural subsidies given to big agro industrialists in Europe and the USA by conservative politicians to the favours given to Uribe´s buddies as mentioned in the article.

Dolfi comments on Colombian police kill Farc terrorist leader

"Una de las dos hipótesis más fuertes que hay sobre la masacre es que...." Still no hard facts about this incident.

Dolfi comments on How many of you would run back to the USA if Venezuela declares war on Colombia

Considering the bad experience the USA has with wars in the last years ist is surprising how many americans wish for another war in their backyard.

Dolfi comments on entire Colombian football team killed by ELN

The article form El Colombiano doesn´t say anything about the ELN being responsible for these killings, but it mentions "Diversas organizaciones irregulares, entre ellas de guerrilleros, paramilitares y narcotraficantes, actúan en la zona fronteriza". The BBC says: "State authorities say they suspect a left-wing Colombian guerrilla group, the ELN, is to blame for the deaths", so they suspect it, OK (it is not said on which information this is based). What makes anyone so sure that 1) it was the ELN that killed these people and not the Paramilitaries or drug trafickers? and 2) that venezuelan authorities are involved? According to the information presented here I can´t see this. Obviously there is an ideological bias at work.

Dolfi comments on entire Colombian football team killed by ELN

There is not the slightest evidence that the venezuelan government is in any way involved in this incident.

Dolfi comments on Brazil, Colombia Presidents Seek To Double Bilateral Trade

Brazil's Lula defends South America arms buildup BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Major military weapons purchases by Brazil and Venezuela won't spur an arms race in South America and are necessary to protect borders and natural resources, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday. Silva also downplayed concerns raised this week from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that purchases planned by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could destabilize the region. "Venezuela is a country with huge amounts of oil and natural gas, and Chavez was the victim of a coup, so it's normal that he is getting prepared," Silva said in an interview with Brazil's Radio Guaiba. Chavez was briefly ousted from power in a 2002 coup. Silva said in the interview that Brazil must beef up its military to protect its vast land and sea borders, and to make sure no unnamed foreign powers target the country's newly discovered offshore oil reserves or the Amazon's natural riches. "Everyone knows Brazil is a peaceful nation, but we need to be able to show our teeth if anyone wants to mess with us," Silva said. http://www.omaha.com/article/20090918/AP15/309189868

Dolfi comments on 45 years jail DON DIEGO

Uribe a hero? Just because the rich can now (or could until now) travel to their fincas on the weekend and enjoy peace an quiet? What a joke!

Dolfi comments on MY WIFE'S FAMILY

It is helpful if one of the family can travel to your place and see what life costs. Whenthey see how much you pay for a bus ride, gasoline, a meal in a restaurant in Europe or in the USA their attitude might change.

Dolfi comments on Former Colombian president blasts U.S. anti-drug strategy

All that has to be said on the subject is summed up very well by british author John Gray here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/13/legalise-drugs-john-gray Excerpt: "The fact is that the costs of drug prohibition now far outweigh any possible benefits the policy may bring. It is time for a radical shift in policy. Full-scale legalisation, with the state intervening chiefly to regulate quality and provide education on the risks of drug use and care for those who have problems with the drugs they use, should now shape the agenda of drug law reform. In rich societies like Britain, the US and continental Europe, the drug war has inflicted multiple harms. Since the inevitable result is to raise the price of a serious drug habit beyond what many can afford, penalising use drives otherwise law-abiding people into the criminal economy. As well as criminalising users, prohibition exposes them to major health risks. Illegal drugs can't easily be tested for quality and toxicity and overdosing are constant risks. Where the drugs are injected, there is the danger of hepatitis and HIV being transmitted. Again, criminalising some drugs while allowing a free market in others distracts attention from those that are legal and harmful, such as alcohol. Producing and distributing illegal drugs is a highly organised business, whose effects are felt throughout society. The extreme profits that are reaped corrupt institutions and wreck lives. Dealing drugs can seem a glamorous career to young people in desolate inner cities, even as it socialises them into a gang culture in which violence is normal. It is in the world's poorer societies that drug prohibition is having its most catastrophic effects. Mexico is only one of several Latin American countries where the anti-drug crusade has escalated into something like low-intensity warfare, while elsewhere in the world some states have been more or less wholly captured by drug money. Narco-capitalism is one of the less advertised features of globalisation, but it may well emerge strengthened from the recent dislocation in global markets. Not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world, the extreme profits of the drug trade have a well-documented role in funding terrorist networks and so threaten advanced countries. No doubt terrorism will remain a threat whatever drug regime is in place, but the collapse in prices that would follow legalisation would make a big dent in the resources it can command. It is hard to see how the countries where most drug users live can be secure while counter-terrorist operations are mixed up with the ritual combat of the anti-drugs crusade. What is required is not a libertarian utopia in which the state retreats from any concern about personal conduct, but a coolly utilitarian assessment of the costs and benefits of different methods of intervention. The scale of the problem suggests that decriminalising personal use is not enough. The whole chain of production and distribution needs to be brought out of the shadows and regulated. Different drugs may need different types of regulation and legalisation may work best if it operated somewhat differently in different countries. At this point, these details are not of overriding importance. The urgent need is for a shift in thinking. There are hopeful signs of this happening in some of the emerging countries, such as Argentina, Mexico and Brazil (whose former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso last week argued forcefully in this newspaper that the war on drugs has failed). There is no reason why these countries, which bear much of the brunt of the drug wars, should wait for an outbreak of reason among politicians in rich countries. They should abandon prohibition as soon as they can. It remains the case that without a change of mind in the leaders of rich countries, above all in the United States, the futile global crusade will continue. The likelihood that the American political classes will call a halt any time soon must be close to zero. Yet it is pleasant to dream that President Obama, in the midst of all the other dilemmas he is facing, may one day ask himself whether America or the world can any longer afford the absurd war on drugs."

Dolfi comments on Listen to this audio of Chavez the dictator

It is here because tasco66 doens´t have a clue neither about Colombia nor about Venezuela.

Dolfi comments on Depeche Mode reconoce labor de Colombia es Pasión

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyqupkDyYE you can see how Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan shouts "Thank you, Chile!" after a concert in Lima/Peru. Very Funny

Dolfi comments on Colombian hitmen talk with CNN about Medellin's murders

Where there is a demand, there will be an offer. As long as people in the USA and Europe want to consume cocaine, someone will sell it, be it from Colombia or elsewhere. If you want to stop drug related violence, you have to 1) reduce the profits by legalizing drugs, 2) give people a chance to make a decent living by legal work. As none of these things is going to happen soon, violence probably won´t stop.

Dolfi comments on Colombia 2 Paraguay 0

A pity it doesn´t help them any more.

Dolfi comments on DIA DE LA RAZA

Los madrileños que llegaron de América Miles de ciudadanos de origen latino participan en un festival para celebrar la Hispanidad http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/madrilenos/llegaron/America/elpepiespmad/20091012elpmad_2/Tes

Dolfi comments on La Guajira Photos

Que lindo, all the colours of Colombia. worth watching

Dolfi comments on Colombian Slang

Doesn´t one rather speak of "cojones" in this case?

Dolfi comments on San Andres to Providencia - New Fast Boat Service - 2 hours

Which size is that boat? I wouldn´t like to ride on a small lancha for two hours.

Dolfi comments on Farming Subsidies Go To Uribe Supporters

If there is a bad thing, the mere fact that there are things in the world that are even worse, doens´t make the bad thing good or even acceptable. This is the kind of argument used by people who don´t want the bad things to change.