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Alvaro Uribe Isn’t Endorsing Obama

11:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment

4 Apr 2008

Why would he, as amigo de Bush and his foreign policy that benefit the least at the expense of the most? Colombian President Alvaro Uribe responded quite harshly to Barack Obama’s criticism of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Obama said:

“I will oppose the Colombia Free Trade Agreement if President Bush insists on sending it to Congress because the violence against unions in Colombia would make a mockery of the very labor protections that we have insisted be included in these kinds of agreements,” Obama said Wednesday at a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in Philadelphia.

Uribe said:”

outrage” (”atropello”) to “make these statements about Colombia without having all the facts.”

John McCain and President Bush support the trade agreement.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama oppose it.

Via / The Latin Americanist and Candidato USA

Are Colombia, Ecuador & Venezuela Ready to Get Their War On?

12:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador| Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| Venezuela · Comments Off

4 Mar 2008

The media is all over the story that Ecuador and Venezuela are ready to declare war on Colombia. Ecuador and Venezuela have cut diplomatic ties with Colombia and sent troops to their respective borders with the nation run by Alvaro Uribe. Alvaro Uribe can indeed be seen as the cause of the war talk thanks to him allowing (some say officially ordering) his troops into Ecuadorian land to capture and kill FARC leader Raúl Reyes. In the raid laptops were captured, starting a war of documents on laptops as well. Colombia says that documents recovered reveal Hugo Chavez’s support of the FARC in terms of money. Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia’s national police chief in the cocaine trade.

Colombia Just Says No to Foreign Rescue Missions

8:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Controversia| Politics| Venezuela · 3 Comments

8 Jan 2008

Citing President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s failed FARC hostage release operation, the Colombian government said it will not accept any more international commissions.

As much as I dislike the Uribe government, you really can’t blame them. They are trying to save face and appear in control of a situation that is really out of control. They weren’t able to negotiate any hostage release either, and ruse or not, Venezuela seemed to get farther than Colombia ever had.

Chavez wants nothing to do with Colombia

3:14 pm By Maegan La Mala · Colombia| Latin America| Politics| Venezuela · Comments Off

28 Nov 2007

The relationship between neighboring countries Venezuela and Colombia has gone from chilly to frigid, as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez declared today that his government will not have anything to do with Colombia as long as it is lead by president Alvaro Uribe:

“I could not, out of dignity,” Mr Chavez told supporters in the town of Tachira in western Venezuela.

The Venezuelan government announced on Tuesday it was withdrawing its ambassador to Colombia.

The feud between neighbours and trading partners began when Mr Uribe stopped Mr Chavez mediating with Colombian rebels.

Beyond the punishment of the cold shoulder, Hugo’s dishing out the same brand of stuff he’s famous for: colorful insults. He’s calling Uribe a “pawn of the empire”, referring to him as a close ally of the U.S.

Via / BBC News

Time’s Up for Chavez Hostage Talks

5:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Politics| Venezuela · Comments Off

23 Nov 2007

Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe has officially pulled the plug on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s mediation efforts with FARC rebels. Chavez was in the process of brokering the release of 45 hostages, including once Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in exchange for the release of 500 imprisoned guerrillas. Apparently, Chavez, never one to play by the rules, went against an order forbidding direct contact with Colombia’s army chief.

Did Colombian President Uribe Offer to Implant Immigrants?

8:50 am By Maegan La Mala · Colombia| Controversia| Immigration · Comments Off

8 May 2006

No, this is not science fiction. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe may have offered up his people as human guinea pigs to the U.S. government as a way to deal with the immigration “problem”. Telemundo is reporting that the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo claims that in a meeting earlier this year with Republican senators Arlen Specter and Jeff Sessions, Uribe suggested that Colombian migrant workers be implanted with a microchip in order to track them and insure their timely return to their country. The Colombian government is denying that this ever happened, of course, saying that Uribe responded to the Senators’ concerns regarding the timely return of temporary workers by saying:

Well that should be easy for you because thee should be technology to control those things.

Via / Telemundo

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