Mr. Shaman
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Yeah....his eyebrows shot up....his eyes popped....when Obama suggested labor-leaders have, for quite-a-while, been targeted by assassins.
It makes you wonder WHERE, in Colombia, that spastic, little toad (McBush) actually visited!!
I guess McBush (simply) "Can't recall."
....And, how 'bout that drug-war.
It makes you wonder WHERE, in Colombia, that spastic, little toad (McBush) actually visited!!
"For the past two years the Uribe administration has been embroiled in a devastating para-politics scandal. Approximately eighty governors, mayors, congressional politicians and close allies of the president have been alleged to have, or found guilty of having, direct connections, meetings, and/or contracts with Colombia’s most notorious paramilitary organization, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). During the time of these collaborations, hundreds if not thousands of political opponents, trade unionists, community organizers and civilians were targeted for assassination, threatened and/or disappeared. As a result of testimony from former paramilitary leaders, who admitted links with politicians, the bodies of hundreds of civilians have been found in mass graves.
More members of FENSUAGRO have been assassinated than any other union in Colombia. Since its inception, over 500 persons within FENSUAGRO have been assassinated or disappeared by right-wing paramilitaries or State forces, while five thousand members have experienced some form of state-based abuse or human rights violations. In 2007, 20 percent of all known unionists murdered in Colombia belonged to FENSUAGRO. While Colombia’s disturbing history of systemic human rights abuses against organized labor is not new, the Uribe administration is clearly trying to draw attention away from the State’s links to paramilitarism, corruption and social absence."
I guess McBush (simply) "Can't recall."
....And, how 'bout that drug-war.
"The Bush administration has come up with numerous justifications for its annual handout of around $700 million in mostly military aid to Colombia. Of these, the war on drugs and the urgency of combating “narco-terrorists,” which is code for battling guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), are the most common. Another oft-cited, and far more unlikely, reason for beefing up Colombia’s military is the administration’s ostensible desire to “defend democracy” in Colombia. There is, however, another factor driving US involvement in Colombia that receives rather less public attention: oil."