This site covers almost identical stuff… That’s strange……

Intriguing idea, but I don’t know if I believe you one hundred percent….

July 27 2008 (LPAC)–In the wake of its audacious July 2 liberation of 15 high-profile hostages held by the narcoterrorist FARC, the Colombian government is organizing an anti-drug summit for next week, to which 23 nations have been invited, Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez announced on July 24.

The July 30-August 1 summit on “Illegal Drugs, Security and Cooperation in the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela,” will be hosted by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama have already confirmed their attendance, as has the Vice Foreign Minister of Cuba. Other Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, Attorneys General, etc., are expected to join them.

The spirit of the Colombian diplomatic offensive is captured by the warning the Colombian Ambassador delivered at the Organization of American States on July 24 to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, the only Head of State in the region still defending the FARC: “Help us bury the FARC’s corpse; don’t bury yourself with it.”

A momentous shift back towards securing peace and development throughout the region has followed Colombia’s July 2 success, the most dramatic of a series of blows delivered to the FARC top leadership over the past year. The July 2 action–which included significant institutional support from both the United States and France, demonstrates that the FARC, the world’s largest cocaine cartel, openly backed by the City of London and Wall Street, can be defeated.

The combination of that FARC defeat, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s announcement three days later that Colombia welcomed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s offer for their two nations to build a regional railway, catalyzed significant further motion towards dumping the British free trade system regionwide. In effect, the informal South American Presidents’ Club has swung back into action, despite the fact that the Kirchners in Argentina–previously the sparkplug of regional integration efforts–have been put in check for the past few months by the
destabilization operation in that country.

* On July 11, Chavez and Uribe, with maps in hand, discussed the great potential of their countries cooperating on developing railroads, waterways and food.

* On July 18, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Venezuela’s Chavez and Bolivia’s Evo Morales announced investments to construct the Bolivian highway portion of a bi-oceanic corridor, connecting Brazilian ports on the Atlantic with Chilean and Peruvian ports on the Pacific, going through Bolivia.

* On July 19, Lula da Silva and Uribe announced agreements for Brazil and Colombia to cooperate on rail, food, and joint industrial projects, and that Colombia had agreed to join the South American Defense Council being organized by Brazil.

* On July 20, Peru’s President Alan Garcia joined Lula and Uribe in celebrating Colombia’s Independence Day, and signing a tri-state agreement to cooperate against the drug trade.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-10-ohio-lethal-injection_N.htm

Hmmm, you were in Colombia a while ago, weren’t you Larry?

CNN is likely not complicit- they just get the news from the same places as everyone else- those news wires. I doubt there was CNN reporter there.

I only know FARC from mainstream media too. My school did not teach FARC as my Marxist prof said their model was so outside the other models in Central and South America.

There is no doubt this will be a boost for Uribe and will help his standing within Colombia after the screw-ups in crossing into other countries (Ecuador and Venezuela) earlier. I’m thrilled for this success, but I would not go for the adulation of “strong …leader”. He has faced recent protests within his own country and has NOT been well-viewed in other Latin American countries.

BTW, Venezuela’s economy has been hard-hit by inflation, not a surprise (though definitely unpleasant) for any oil economy and not different from periods the U.S.A. has gone through. Take a hard look at the current state of the U.S. economy before taking a deprecatory view of those of other countries. ALL of the Latin American countries will have difficulties as a result of being tied to the U.S. dollar.

FYI, Chávez’s current approval rating is 73.9%. I won’t get into the Plan Colombia debate.

Then there are the politicians who make govt work look like a dirty job and dishonor those same people.

World hunger and poverty are increasing. Very efficient.

“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” Very efficient.

British free trade policy caused the genocide of 2 million of the 8 million Irish subjects in four years during the curiously mis-named “potato famine.” Very efficient. (They had plenty of food–it was all exported under armed guard in the name of “free trade,” otherwise known as profit for the market speculators. Very efficient.

The United States was created as the first revolution against the establishment of the British Empire (the empire of the British East India Company) established in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris cooked up to insure the Anglo-Dutch Liberal system of imperialism could prevail. The founders of our Constitution weren’t into working for them on a plantation here on the other side of the Atlantic. Protectionist measures (against the British Empire) allowed us to develop our own industry and economy instead of having everything ripped off by them–like Africa is being ripped off.

2005, David Rockefeller, “It would have been quite impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
Very efficient.

Nazi work camps / death camps were “very efficient” too.

The kindest thing one can say about “globalization” is that it’s not working. And more and more citizens and leaders of under-developed nations are voicing that fact.

axiomatic presumptions which, in fact, can be found only in a non-existent, “ivory tower” universe.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/01/health/webmd/main4222322.shtml

These are reports of people who did drugs within their lifetime. Do you suspect maybe a college kid away from home might try marijuana, cocaine, tobacco and alcohol which would skew those results higher? Because that report has 74% having tried tobacco is quite high. While the % of smokers in the US has gone down.

To be fair, the War on Drugs was meant to target those same liberals and college kids and get them off the voting rolls for Nixon. It was Hoover’s idea. So, now you take addiction which is a mental health issue, college experimentation, and a Republican voting tactic, and claim it is worthy of a death sentence?

Nevermind the fact, that some countries have used drugs as a commodity and a weapon….can you say opium? From what I understand drugs are being shipped to Russia, both Columbian cocaine and Afghan heroin. In what seems like a political weapon as well. China, Pakistan, India, Europe have all reported increases in heroin abuse.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8180

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5581-11.cfm

http://www.interpol.int/public/Drugs/heroin/default.asp

As far as the comment about the US giving money to evil people. How many normal people do you know that seek high office? There is something already off about people who are politicians.

They sell their soul for the power to control (Obama).

Anyway, drug use is horrible, but a death sentence for someone probably drowning childhood abuse or neglect issues is harsh. Killing US citizens or drug dealers won’t stop addiction here or around the world. And as stated previously, it strips away a tool for politicians to thin the herd, on the global scale, at the polls, and the colleges. Student loans are not rewarded to those with a drug conviction in their background.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/04/11/column__drug_convictions_should_not_lead_to_lack_of_federal_aid

Too much money and control surrounds drugs…a death sentence addresses none of it.

Mr. Johnson…Hell of a laptop eh?

I was rootin’ for Harold Ford Jr, as Corker…well as his name indicates…