Twitter: latamthought- Correa to attend Santos investidura, but legal issues in Ecuador to continue http://bit.ly/9G46Jt
- Who is Joran van der Sloot? http://bit.ly/bs9Iy1
- This claim is based on "internal polls" carried out in the days leading up to the election. Interview here: http://bit.ly/bXqqvu
- Interview w/Colombian pollsters says they knew the gap b/w Santos-Mockus would be very large, but weren't allowed to publish the results
- New Post: Business as Ideology http://bit.ly/ahUmki HT @bloggingsbyboz
Tag Archives: FARC
Scare Tactics in Colombian Presidential Elections
Soft on Terrorism.
The well-worn phrase is one that the US public has grown accustomed to. Like nationalism, it is a tactic that political campaigners use in attempts to disparage one candidate while strengthening the other.
During the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States, Republican candidate John McCain accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama of being soft [...]
Posted in Colombia, United States Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, Andres Felipe Arias, Antanas Mockus, Campaign Tactics, elections, Juan Manuel Santos 2 Comments
Venezuelan-Colombian Relations at World Politics Review
Diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela have been at the front lines since a Spanish judge accused Venezuela of assisting FARC rebels on March 1, two years to the day after a raid by Colombian soldiers in Ecuador prompted one of the worst regional diplomatic disputes in recent memory.
The accusations are hardly new; in fact, [...]
Posted in Colombia, Venezuela Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, Diplomacy, Hugo Chavez, World Politics Review Leave a comment
Tradtional Advertising, Non-tradtional Brands: Colombia’s Ministry of Defense and The Government of Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli
Colombian Government Spends Money to Talk to FARC Rebels
Advertising Age, a leading trade in the advertising industry, published a story on its front page during the week of 16 November about an established ad campaign with a non-traditional target audience: members of the FARC.
The campaign, sponsored by the Colombian Ministry of Defense and created pro [...]
Colombia’s FARC rebels. Headed for defeat or hunkering down?
Withering military pressure by President Álvaro Uribe’s government has forced Colombian’s largest leftist rebel group, the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), to dig itself even deeper into the Colombian countryside. In 2008, more than 3,000 rebels surrendered their weapons and accepted Uribe’s desertion package. The kidnapping rate has taken a nose dive [...]
The War on Drugs: Eradication of Colombia’s Indigenous People
The deadline for the FARC to return the slain bodies of the 27 Awa indigenous community members killed earlier this month expired at 6:00 PM on February 23, 2009. The killings, carried out on two separate occasions in the Nariño area of southwestern Colombia, have brought terror to the region and left more than 400 [...]
Posted in Colombia Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, drug war, Human Rights, indigenous groups Leave a comment
The use of the Red Cross in Operation Jaque: Why did it take a leaked video for us to find out?
It was CNN that first reported on July 15 that a military officer had apparently used the Red Cross emblem during Operation Jaque. CNN had seen a tape leaked by a military officer that showed the use of the emblem. Even though CNN chose not to pay for the video and pictures at the [...]
Colombia as Israel and the Andes as the Middle East?
On March 3, Venezuelan President Chávez called the Colombian government the “Israel of Latin America” stating, “we aren’t going to permit Colombia to become the Israel of these lands.” But this week’s comparisons of the Andes with the Middle East and Colombia with Israel did not stop there. Some of the comments were simply [...]
Posted in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, border issues, ELN, Israel, Ivan Rios, Rafael Correa, Raul Reyes Leave a comment
The Crisis Has Been Overcome?
After six days of tension which led some to fear inter-state armed conflict in the Andes, the conflict was declared “overcome” by Presidents Uribe, Correa, Chávez, and Ortega on Friday afternoon at the Rio Summit in the Dominican Republic. After a week of insulting each other, the Presidents reacted positively to Dominican President Fernandez’s [...]
Posted in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, border issues, ELN, Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa 1 Comment
Raúl Reyes 1948-2008: Internal and Regional Implications
Early Saturday morning, the Colombian armed forces bombed a target on the Ecuadorian side of the Colombian-Ecuadorian border where they believed Raúl Reyes, the second in command of the FARC, would be that night. After bombing the location twice, Colombian troops crossed the border and brought Reyes’ body and 3 laptops back to the [...]
Posted in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela Also tagged Alvaro Uribe, ELN, Rafael Correa, Raul Reyes 2 Comments
Business as Ideology