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ChangoLoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 12:40 PM
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Mockus: "If Venezuela became another Cuba, it would be sad for everybody"
"If elected president of Colombia, with Venezuela, I would choose the path of respect and prudence. One should try to understand others. (But) if Venezuela became another Cuba, it would be sad for everybody."

Mockus declared as well that he wanted a guarantee that Plan Colombia will continue.

Let's wait and see if the worshipers from the (pseudo-)Left start disliking Mockus for his heretic position.

In Spanish:

El candidato Antanas Mockus quiere, si accede a la presidencia de Colombia, cultivar el “camino del respeto” con Hugo Chávez y a la vez obtener la “garantía” de continuidad de la ayuda estadounidense a la lucha antidrogas en Colombia. Sondeos recientes dan a Mockus una ventaja que lo darían ganador de los comicios en la segunda vuelta, prevista el 20 de junio.
Antanas Mockus, ex alcalde de Bogotá cuya campaña se centra en el restablecimiento de la confianza y de la decencia entre los colombianos, también piensa que en el caso de Venezuela “hay que tratar de comprender al otro lo mejor posible y no precipitarse en formular juicios”.

Venezuela congeló sus relaciones con Colombia en julio del 2009, a raíz de la negociación de un acuerdo que permite a Estados Unidos usar al menos siete bases militares colombianas, pero, dijo Mockus, “estamos en el mismo avión”.

“La diversificación de modelos (políticos) en América Latina puede traer inconvenientes, y asimismo es una riqueza: el continente está ensayando honestamente distintos caminos”, explicó este matemático que también ha sido rector universitario.

Sin embargo, Mockus dijo que si “Venezuela se volviera otra Cuba sería una tristeza para todo el mundo”.

Mockus dijo que si “Venezuela se volviera otra Cuba sería una tristeza para todo el mundo”Con Estados Unidos primer socio comercial de Colombia y su aliado estratégico en la lucha contra la guerrilla de las FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, marxistas) y los narcotraficantes el candidato del Partido Verde prefiere la continuidad.

“Es urgente tener la garantía de que el plan Colombia (de ayuda estadounidense) sigue”, dijo.

Mediante el Plan Colombia, Estados Unidos ha vertido más de 6.000 millones de dólares a este país desde el año 2000.

Sin embargo, para Mockus, también es indispensable generar en su país una nueva “actitud cultural”, que lleve a una moral más estricta.

En Colombia “hay ciudades donde hay más intolerancia al adicto que al narco, y eso es preocupante”, declaró el ex alcalde de Bogotá.

Siguiendo el camino trazado por los gobiernos de Alvaro Uribe desde 2002, Mockus defiende la firmeza frente a las FARC y promete “buscar resultados sin caer en los excesos del pasado, como los falsos positivos”, expresión que designa las decenas de ejecuciones extrajudiciales cometidas por militares.

“Si a la gente le duele el desempleo, pues es mejor un empleo flexibilizado con menos garantías, menos prestaciones, a no tener empleo”. En lo económico el candidato tampoco plantea una ruptura, y se muestra de acuerdo con las reformas que flexibilizaron el mercado laboral.

“Si a la gente le duele el desempleo, pues es mejor un empleo flexibilizado con menos garantías, menos prestaciones, a no tener empleo”, explicó.

Pero a la vez defiende la “ortodoxia financiera”: “Dedico una gran parte de mi esfuerzo de persuasión a explicar la necesidad del cobro de impuestos”, recordó.

Antanas Mockus, que apenas conseguía 9% de la intención de voto a finales de marzo, es ahora uno de los dos favoritos de la campaña presidencial colombiana, junto al ex ministro de la Defensa Juan Manuel Santos, candidato del oficialista Partido de la U (Partido Social de Unión Nacional).

Link:
http://www.diariocritico.com/venezuela/2010/Abril/noticias/205808/antanas-mockus-considera-que-si-venezuela-se-volviera-otra-cuba-seria-una-tristeza-para-todo-el-mund.html
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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 12:54 PM
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1. awesome find lol. nt.
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protocol rv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 07:42 PM
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2. Oh oh
I think Chavez is going to cuss Mockus if he finds out about this. Cuba is such a swell place.
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protocol rv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 08:33 PM
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3. Is mockus going to declare war on Venezuela?
I sure hope he doesn't. Our military isn't in very good shape.
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 07:52 AM
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4. Greens are the true progressives in South America
"Antanas Mockus, que apenas conseguía 9% de la intención de voto a finales de marzo, es ahora uno de los dos favoritos de la campaña presidencial colombiana"

Well, I hope this is the case in Brazil as well with Marina Silva growing in the opinion polls. It would be awesome if she could get to the second round of voting and be a viable candidate like Mockus.

The only problem is that Rousseff and Serra both own so much airtime in the campaign due to their alliances.
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roody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:50 AM
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5. of the USA as well.
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roody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 09:54 AM
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6. He wants to win the election and also to live.
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ChangoLoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 11:05 AM
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7. He's proposing a different model for the left in Latin America
Not social-democratic, not radical... so I don't agree he's hiding his true opinion on the matter.
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 01:33 PM
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8. Yep, and Greens in Brazil agree and they have nothing to fear...
...when making such claims. Lula is friendly with Chavez and he won elections and does not have problems with security for his position.
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 01:43 PM
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9. I know he wants to win elections and he wants to live
But I don't agree that is the reason why he takes these positions. The Greens in Brazil and Colombia appear to want to create a new left-wing alliance to counter left-wing authoritarians like Chavez and the Castros.

One of the founders of the Brazilian Green Party said, "We consider that it is important to create an alternative left-wing pole in Latin America to face off against the authoritarian, populist and anachronistic left of Chavism and of the Castro brothers in Cuba." Note that Brazilian greens have nothing to fear if they wanted to be friendly to Chavez just like the Brazilian president (who has been elected and re-elected) is friends with Chavez and the Castros.

I think the Greens represent a new evolved left that doesn't cling to bullshit like the polarizing status quo.
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protocol rv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 03:04 PM
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10. Even Lula isn't that friendly with Castro and Chavez
Lula is just playing those two for suckers, he's extracting a lot of profits for private brazilian multinationals. In a sense, Lula is another Francois Mitterand, just focusing on cash flow for the upper classes, cutting whatever deals he has to make, as long as Odebrecht and Valle are the ones who make the profits. Those super giants of private Brazilian industry in turn have a deal with the Brazilian left, they'll play ball, pay their taxes, treat their workers ok, but they want new business, and that's what they're getting.
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