Posts Tagged ‘alvaro uribe’
New Latin American Regional Org Says “Vete al Carajo” to U.S.
8:30 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Latin America · 7 Comments
26 Feb 2010In 2007 it was “porque no te callas”, now it’s “vete al carajo”. At the Rio Summit earlier this week, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shared a few choice words of love and respect.
From the New Yorker
President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia, who seems to equate masculinity with an archaic code of honor, uttered the phrase, which translates as “Act like a man!” with studly connotations of challenge and defiance attached. His neighbor, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, shouted back in his standard street-fighter mode, “¡Vete al carajo!”—or, roughly, “Go fuck yourself.”
And really that’s all par for the course between those two, but the bigger “vete pal carajo” went to the U.S. and Canada who were excluded when Latin America leaders decided to form a regional organisation that will unite the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean but that will not involve either the United States or Canada.
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Hugo Chavez vs. Colombia : Round 1 million and 3
8:51 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Colombia|Politics|Venezuela · 1 Comment
29 Jul 2009
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela announced on Venezuelan TV that Venezuela is withdrawing its ambassador from neighboring Colombia, freezing relations including halting trade deals with Colombia.
The announcement came a day after the Colombia government said weapons bought by Venezuela from Sweden in the 1980s had ended up with Colombian guerrillas.
Mr Chavez denied this and accused Colombia of acting “irresponsibly”.
What’s the U.S. got to do with it? According to Chavez (and many others), plenty.
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The United States isn’t about to tell people exactly how it’s spending Plan Colombia money, money that is said to fight against drug traffickers and terrorists in Alvaro Uribe’s country. There is some concern that brand spanking new military units are targeting civilian areas and violating human rights.
The Colombian Army’s brand-new 23rd Mobile Brigade, pursuing National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, pounded a school and nearby home on Monday, February 2 with bombs, rockets and machine-gun fire in the hamlet of La Esperanza, in San Calixto municipality, Norte de Santander department.
The Nueva Esperanza school was hit dozens of times, with many bullets falling inside classrooms that, thankfully, were empty of students, owing to a lack of teachers. One young civilian resident was hurt, and bullets also fell on a house nearby, a mortar striking within thirty feet. The soldiers then camped in the homes and on the land of La Esperanza residents – a violation of International Humanitarian Law and Protocol II of the Geneva Conventions, as is the targeting and destruction of a civilian institution. (Article 48 of Geneva Conventions Protocol I requires the armed forces to only carry out operations against military targets, not civilian establishments.) They also stole personal property of local leaders, copies of parents’ identity documents and over $1,000 US in school and community property.
In December, I wrote about Colombian president Alvaro Uribe clearly rejecting any outside intervention in the latest offered release of FARC hostages. The problem is that FARC won’t release any hostages unless there are outside witnesses involved.
The Colombian leftist rebel group, FARC, said it is willing to hand over six hostages but it will only do so in the presence of an international representative.
In a statement made public Wednesday, the FARC said it wants someone from either a “brother country” or the international community to be present when it frees the hostages.
Both the FARC and the Colombian government say they will let someone from the International Committee of the Red Cross be on hand for the hostage release. But Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has said he does not want any other international participation
Alvaro Uribe Says Thanks pero no Gracias to Outside Help in FARC Hostage Release (Especially You Hugo!)
8:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Colombia|Venezuela · Comments Off
23 Dec 2008
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has rejected any help from other countries in negotiating the release of 6 FARC hostages.
“The government will not permit our foreign relations to be put at risk by involving personalities from the international community,”
Specifically Uribe likely meant Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who was suggested by Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba as possible facilitator.
Ingrid Betancourt on FARC, Running for President, and Obama
10:47 am By Maegan La Mala · Colombia|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
21 Dec 2008
On Al Punto with Jorge Ramos this morning on Univision, there was an interview with former FARC hostage and one time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Five months after her release, Betancourt said the FARC was struggling to survive in Colombia and that there have been orders to recapture her, which is why she lives in Paris, France, where she is also a citizen.
With Colombia being heralded as the model of the Latin American war against drugs (with a “little help” from the United States), some human rights organizations within the South American country are questioning Colombia’s numbers when it comes to just how well they are killing off opposition.
Codhes, a respected Colombian NGO, analysed the statistics of recent successes claimed by the armed forces in the 44-year civil conflict.
About 114,000 members of the warring factions were said to have been dealt with by the army in the last six years.
However, other estimates say there are only 30,000 in the warring factions.
Even allowing for recruiting to replenish depleted ranks, the government figures suggest that eight members of the warring factions are killed every single day in Colombia, something not substantiated by any other sources.
Shakira and Colombia’s President Uribe Toast to Peace con Refajo
9:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|history · Comments Off
21 Jul 2008Ok so no one saw the two actually drinking Colombiana with beer. I was drinking refajo as the President of Colombia and Shakira celebrated Colombian independence and called for an end to the cycle of violence in their country.
Shakira and Uribe are joined by Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Peruvian President Alan Garcia. Eleven of the hostages that were rescued together with Ingrid Betancourt were also present in Leticia.The Colombian pop idol called on guerrillas, who still are involved in a war against the government to demobilize and work with the government towards peace.
Later she performed together with fellow Colombian singer Carlos Vives. Hundreds of thousands of people were visiting the border concert.
Via / Colombia Reports
Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe to Meet Soon?
1:38 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
16 Jun 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, political enemies, may be meeting soon, especially since Chavez’s call to the FARC to release all their hostages and end their fight.
“I want to reiterate our thanks to President Hugo Chavez for his recent comments that help Colombia win a definite peace. I believe they were positive comments,” Uribe said at a community town hall meeting.
Uribe said he would meet soon with Chavez as the two governments work to repair ties…A Colombian government source said the meeting would likely take place in Venezuela before July 15 though details were still being hammered out.
Via / Reuters
Image Via / Venezuela Analysis
Venezuela to Colombia : A U.S. Base on the Border Means War
5:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Ecuador|Venezuela · 1 Comment
15 May 2008
With the lease of the U.S. military base in Manta, Ecuador expiring next year and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa vowing not to renew, the United States Ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, suggested that the Ecuador base could be moved to La Guajira inside Colombia, who maintains friendly diplomatic relations with the U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, not one to take a “wait and see” approach, said that placing a U.S. base in the region that spans northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, would equal nothing less than a threat of war.
“We will not allow the Colombian government to give La Guajira to the empire,” Chavez said, referring to the US during a speech to a packed auditorium of uniformed soldiers.
“Colombia is launching a threat of war at us.”
While Chavez certainly will be called out because he is the only one crying “war” , what would a U.S. military base on the Colombia/Venezuela border mean?
Via / Al Jazeera
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