The U.S. press has been watching the Colombian presidential elections very closely, and is ecstatic that Bush's pick won as planned. Uribe is touted in an AP story as halting the South American swing to the left (horrors!)...
...In typical Bush fashion, Uribe is a rich landowner, educated at Oxford and Harvard, son of a wealthy cattle rancher who was to be extradited to the U.S. for drug trafficking, but was allegedly killed by F.A.R.C. (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). Alvaro Uribe grew up with the three children of Fabio Ochoa, three of whom became leading members of the Medellin Cocaine cartel of Pablo Escobar.
This man is being hailed as a solution to S.A.'s "problem" of shifting to the left, proving that what the U.S. want's is not democracy, human rights, or even and end to terrorism, but coke dealing fascist juntas that will crush the people of the region and send the cocaine profits to the U.S.
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http://www.colombiajournal.org/...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Now we know where the Bushes get their yayo from!