Two pedestrian bridges on Vezuela-Colombia border dynamited this AM

you neo-turds always want someone to do your homework.

America is and has been "the enemy" for South
America for many years. Columbia is an American puppet
regime. Just look at our "response" in Honduras. If
you believe that the Honduran coup wasn't jointly financed by
the American elite then you don't have a clue. Chavez is such
a bad man for helping the poor of his country and shutting
down American elite financed TV stations that tried to incite
a coup, so the elite could reclaim wealth that they don't even
need. Chavez has started a universal movement to end poverty
and repression. I hope that it thrives. It has in the parts
of South America that have thrown off the shackles of
American elitism/imperialism. Pavulon, I hope you are very
wealthy. If not you're easily manipulated. That is
diplomacy...

There's a lot of black-ops funding in them life destroying
narcotics. Ship that stuff to our inner cities and let them
kill each other while the CIA pockets the big money and funds
coups for the corporations. All in a days work..

Venezuela Military Strength

PERSONNEL
Total Population: 26,414,816 {2008}
Population Available: 13,448,257 {2008}
Fit for Military Service: 11,049,788 {2008}
Reaching Military Age Annually: 549,429 {2008}
Active Military Personnel: 100,000 {2008}
ETC.

President Uribe’s Hidden Past
By Tom Feiling · May 24, 2004

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Noticias Uno told the story of how in 1997, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized 50,000 kilos of potassium permanganate from a ship docked in San Francisco. Potassium permanganate is a chemical used in the production of cocaine. The cargo was on its way to Colombia to be delivered to a company called GMP Chemical Products. The owner of GMP was Pedro Moreno Villa GMP, Uribe’s presidential campaign manager. The chemicals seized were sufficient to produce $15 billion worth of cocaine. The DEA confirmed that GMP was Colombia’s biggest importer of potassium permanganate between 1994 and 1998, when Uribe was governor of Medellin and Moreno Villa was his chief of staff.

As the Presidential race intensified, journalists became increasingly concerned that media bosses were threatening their editorial independence. Two powerful business groups with ties to the political establishment own RCN and Caracol, the biggest television and radio networks in Colombia. Journalists’ concerns were further heightened when Uribe picked a member of the Santos family, which owns the country’s most influential daily newspaper, to be his vice-president.

Despite his links to paramilitaries and drug cartels, Uribe won the presidency. But to call Uribe’s victory a landslide—as many in and outside Colombia did—is a gross distortion of the facts. Uribe received 53 percent of the official vote, but only 25 percent of the electorate voted. Many urban and middle class Colombians, who have been largely sheltered from the civil war, were thoroughly disillusioned by the peace process of outgoing-President Andrés Pastrana, and backed hardliner Uribe. But the election was hardly a fair one.

Mapiripán is the site of one of the worst paramilitary massacres to date, yet many of the town’s residents voted for the “paramilitary” candidate, Uribe. Father Javier Giraldo of the Colombian human rights group Justicia y Paz was in Mapiripán on election day: “There was a great deal of fraud. There were paramilitaries in the voting booths. They destroyed a lot of ballots. This was denounced to the Ombudsman, but nothing happened.” Electoral fraud, widespread paramilitary threats—denounced by virtually all the other candidates during the election campaign—and the almost total decimation of the electoral left in the preceding decade all contributed to Uribe’s election victory.