VivirLatino

There has been much attention paid to the President Obama’s foreign policy with the Middle East and parts of Asia which makes sense given that the U.S. in involved in two wars there. Pero, I think that the mainstream media has been sleeping on what is going on in Latin America. The focus on Latin America in the media has been usually limited to the immigration issue (which regular readers know is an extremely important issue to me). What is being ignored is the continuance of Bush policies when it comes to Colombia and Venezuela.

It should be no secret that Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe is a friend of the U.S while Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is considered crazy at best and dangerous at worse. Plan Colombia has allowed the U.S nearly unfettered access in Colombia all in the name of the war on drugs and now the war on terror.

Two weeks ago, President Chavez reported on his weekly radio and television show that unmanned U.S. aircrafts, drones, illegally entered Venezuela’s airspace. Not surprisingly, these entries occurred in parts of the country that border with Colombia.

Simple accident?
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