Álvaro Uribe, Ex-Prez of Colombia, Named Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Despite Protests

[Judi Lynn]

Álvaro Uribe, Ex-Prez of Colombia, Named Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Despite Protests
By Michael Miller, Wed., Sep. 29 2010 @ 2:27PM

​As New Times reported last week, shady Latin American politicians have a habit of ending up in our neck of the woods.
This time, however, it seems Miami dodged a bullet. Álvaro Uribe, ex-president of Colombia accused of links to paramilitary death squads, has landed a sweet job at Georgetown University in D.C.

Uribe's new title at the Jesuit institution: "Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership."

Um, what?

This, of course, is the man who launched an attack on rebels across the border in Ecuador, nearly starting a war.

Just this Monday, more than 150 scholars from around the U.S. and abroad issued a letter to Georgetown's president asking him to reconsider Uribe's appointment.

More:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/09/alvaro_uribe_ex-prez_of_colomb.php

[Bacchus39]

1. the last paragraph that you omitted is the best

"On the bright side, this opens the door to UNC hiring Uribe's arch-nemesis Hugo Chávez as its new mascot. That would give a whole new meaning to "March Madness."



Hugo would make an excellent mascot.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It might help if you recognized DU rules direct posters to keep copyrighted material to 4 paragraphs

with only a couple of exceptions.

Any article bearing a link is usually expected to be read, but it can't be entirely posted according to D.U. rules convering almost all situations. That's certainly what they tell me, even when I see others doing it and try to copy them, using the old "b-b-b-but they're doing it" rationalization.

This is actually practised on all organized message boards, with only the lesser, silly, half-assed ones allowing total spam all the time.

[Bacchus39]

3. I don't think copyrights apply to blogs unless so designated and the 4 paragraph rule

is for LBN.

regardless, I didn't post the entire blog either, just the best part.