Bogota - Colombia said on Monday that it has seized a private Caribbean island and hundreds of other properties allegedly used by powerful cocaine trafficker Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia to launder millions of dollars in drug profits. The US was offering 5 Million for this guy, wonder if the police will get the reward?? http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070827214350646C472567 ...
Colombia wants Europe to commit more money and resources to help it fight drug trafficking and a related guerrilla insurgency, at a time when the US Congress is threatening to cut off aid to the Latin American country.
“I would like more commitment from Europe – more judicial agreements, intelligence sharing, police collaboration, training,” Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s defence minister, told the Financial Times.
Read the full story here: http://www.ft.c ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- On the eve of a visit by President Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed that U.S. and Colombian soldiers had entered a stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three Americans hostage.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Marshall Louis said only that "U.S. personnel accompanied Colombian forces in the south, and that's all I can say about it."
U.S. troops are not permitted to engage in combat in Colombia but are allowed to accompany and advise Colombian ...
Archbishop Hugo Chavez?
By Father Jonathan Morris
Try to imagine Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, dressed up as a bishop — the head bishop — of his own state-sponsored church.
According to media reports coming out of Latin America, President Chavez is considering a proposal that would establish him as the high priest of his own form of evangelical Christianity, convert his cabinet members into bishops of a lower rank, and submit church activities to th ...
by Charley Reese
Usually, the right thing to do is both simple to state and simple to understand. It's the wrong things to do that require the camouflage of ambiguity, abstract language and outright lies.
Makes a whole lot of sense to me!!
Read his comments here, worth the read.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese330.html ...
By Mike Ceaser | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
PUNTO ASIS, COLOMBIA – A decision by Colombia's conservative President Álvaro Uribe to restart the country's aerial fumigation of coca leaf plantations near the border with Ecuador appears to have further isolated him in a region increasingly unfriendly to Washington's war on drugs.
Last week's move has sparked a diplomatic row, with Ecuador recalling its ambassador to Colombia and vowing to file an offici ...
ONE of Colombia's most notorious right-wing commanders testified in a Colombian courtroom yesterday as part of a peace deal that supporters claim will help end Colombia's bloody conflict but that critics say fails to fully dismantle the illegal militias.
Salvatore Mancuso, a 42-year-old rancher whom human rights groups describe as a mass murderer, was the first senior commander of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) to provide information toprosecutors on massacres an ...
(12-16) 04:00 PST Bogota, Colombia -- A scandal has rocked the administration of President Alvaro Uribe after revelations that dozens of public officials loyal to his party have ties with right-wing death squads listed by Washington as terrorist organizations.
The disclosures reveal that mayors, governors, members of Congress, judges and even the current foreign minister have ties to violence and narcotics traffickers.
"The paramilitaries have taken control of a g ...
By Juan Forero
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, November 18, 2006; A17
BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 17 -- The government of President Álvaro Uribe is being shaken by its most serious political crisis yet, as details emerge about members of Congress who collaborated with right-wing death squads to spread terror and exert political control across Colombia's Caribbean coast.
Two senators, Álvaro García and Jairo Merlano, are in custo ...
Bogota, once a world capital of mayhem, is now held up as a model.
By Chris Kraul
Times Staff Writer
October 28, 2006
A decade ago, the Bosa slum was the black hole of Bogota. Its darkest corner was Laurel Park, a grassless, trash-strewn lot with open sewage and gun-toting gangs bent on muggings and murder.
Today, Bosa has paved streets, new schools, health clinics and cafeterias, and links to a new mass transit system. Laurel Park has b ...
The release of 62 high-profile Colombian hostages, including the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, looked to be imminent yesterday as the government inched closer to crucial talks with the left-wing FARC guerrilla movement.
A Colombian politician who has had contact with both sides, former senator Alvaro Leyva, said many of the conditions for holding talks had now been fulfilled. "They can't miss this chance. We just have to keep on building trust," he said over th ...
Utopiacowboy,
I know you have turned off your "InBox" on this site. However I have a question that I would like to ask you and I do not want to blast it across the forum. Would you do me a favor and send me an e-mail address where I can contact you. Please send it to my inbox here and I will e-mail you with the details of my question. Thanks, it's really quite important.
Patrick ...
Presently I am working on the island of Curacao and my wife and son are in Cartagena. We have what is called a Current Account in Dollars here in Curacao. Every couple of weeks I deposit funds to the account so my wife can withdraw using her debit card. It is becoming a real hassle, they have reduced the amount she can withdraw from 300,000 pesos to 200,000 pesos and we get whacked close to $3.00 for each transaction and today she was limited to one transaction.
There has to be a ...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638590
America's drug plan collapses in chaos
By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
15 May 2005
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.
...
These make very interesting reading!
By Sean Donahue,
http://www.statecraft.org/chapter9.html (Read for Background)
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/6/1636/09285 (Complete Article)
In January of 2001, in a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, one of the top aides to then-U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson ridiculed the idea that any of the weapons or equipment given to the Colombian military as part of Plan Colombia could wi ...
These make very interesting reading!
http://www.statecraft.org/chapter9.html (Read this for background)
By Sean Donahue,
In January of 2001, in a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, one of the top aides to then-U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson ridiculed the idea that any of the weapons or equipment given to the Colombian military as part of Plan Colombia could wind up in the hands of the right wing paramilitaries of the AUC.
Events this week ...
I wonder how much money Uncle Sam will be pouring into this?
Two leading opposition figures in Venezuela say they are forming a new party to take on both President Hugo Chavez and the existing opposition.
Claudio Fermin, a former mayor of Caracas, and fellow activist Carlos Melo say their Popular Assembly party will "rescue political discourse".
The move comes more than eight months after a failed opposition bid to end Mr Chavez's presidency by refe ...
A little satire on our favorite topic.
A Letter to North Americans Who Want to Work in Plan Colombia
By Laura del Castillo Matamoros
Narco News Editorial Columnist
April 20, 2005
Bogotá, Colombia
Future saviors of our nation:
I write you in the name of all good Colombians, conscious of the fact that the only possible way out from the terrorist threat we now face lies in North American intervention. ...
Just another reason the violence will not end anytime soon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4429727.stm
The peace process between the Colombian government and the leadership of the illegal right-wing paramilitaries is threatening to fall apart.
After a tense day of negotiations, the United Self Defence Forces of Colombia, the AUC, said it would not accept the terms of a proposed amnesty law.
Paramilitary leaders say the legislative framew ...
Venezuela has recalled its ambassador to Colombia over the capture of Rodrigo Granda in Caracas and is claiming a violation of their sovereignty. What a bunch of BS. Wasn’t it Senior Presidente Chavez who swore to the Holy Mother that he would never aid the FARC or give them sanctuary? He was walking around Caracas and Chavez knew he was there; they were monitoring his cell phone. If Chavez isn’t protecting these bums why didn’t he have Granda arrested? Isn't he a known Terrorist? Fair que ...
There is a virus spreading through this posting forum. Utopia is running around Medellin looking for two gringo millionaires who can’t get laid with a waco taxi driver named Pablo. Oldgringo thinks he’s gone around the bend, but I think he’s sick and got the virus from Pablo. And, it’s spreading, Gator is chanting to the Fucahwee Indian God Kumbaya, urging us all to sing along. (see the flood thread) The author of that thread may have a touch of it too; he thinks six hurricanes will hit ...
I have a fairly simple solution for you all. If you intend to write a lengthy reply to a posted topic and you are afraid of being timed out, there are two things you can do. The first is to highlight and copy your response. If you’re timed out log back in and paste your response and submit. Or, you can write your response on a word document; this is what I do, catches your spelling mistakes and will give you suggestions for improved grammar.
Not suggesting that any of you need the help. ...
I thought you guys and gals would love this!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt28.html
Illegal drug prices in the United States are at or near 22 year lows. After 25 years and $25 billion fighting drugs in Latin America, we are no closer to winning the war, the drug war; which is ultimately about reducing drug abuse," said Executive Director Joy Olson, of the Washington Office on Latin America. (WOLA)
If this report is only half true the War on Drugs and Plan Colombia are not working and causing massive destruction and the displacement of many thousands of Colombian ...
As reported by the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4005233.stm
It is the poorest areas of the city that are the most badly affected. The Colombian Red Cross said 2bn pesos ($620,000) were needed to help those left homeless by the floods.
It also said its warehouses with supplies for the victims were empty, calling Colombians to donate food, clothing and medicine.
Let's get behind this and help.
Patrick ...
At the bottom of the Panama post some child posted using offensive language. Can you please fix the site so those who post must sign in. We all enjoy this board too much to allow this kind trash.
Thank you, you are the best!
Patrick ...
Peter,
Why, when I click on the pictures link at the top of the page, am I denied access??
Patrick
If you are not a citizen of Colombia and you are marrying a Colombian citizen you must apply for and get a visa for this purpose. It is called a “Matrimonio” visa. It is issued for a period of six months and unless you request, it will most likely only allow you to enter Colombia once. If you ask they will issue it for “Multiples Entradas”. This is important because you may have to wait several months from the time you apply until your appointment for the wedding service. This was the ca ...
After you bread this, what are your thoughts?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe135.html
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