Obama's election poses problems for Colombia's leader: analysts

[struggle4progress]

BOGOTA
Petroleumworld.com, November 06, 2008

... Daniel Garcia Pena, director of a foundation called "Ideas for Peace" which lobbies for an end to Colombia's internal conflict against Marxist rebels, said Obama's win spelled trouble for Alvaro.

"John McCain isn't the only big loser in the election. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is too, for having espoused the ideological and warlike program of George W. Bush -- a stance that Americans have rejected," he told AFP.

Juan Fernando Losono, an expert in Bogota-Washington relations, said in El Espectador newspaper that Obama's Democrats, more sensitive to human rights issues and alert to the US economic crisis, could make moves to reduce the aid to Colombia's military.

That speculation was reinforced by a growing scandal in which soldiers were suspected of carrying out extrajudicial executions of young civilian men to falsely inflate their number of rebel "kills" ...

http://www.petroleumworld.com/story08110607.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. Ahhhh, doesn't this really choke you up? Poor, poor Uribe. Poor little spindly pale guy.

Makes you just want to throw yourself on the ground to sob your eyes out. How much more lack of total satisfaction can that little man take? He must so want to stamp his little foot.

From the article:

Daniel Garcia Pena, director of a foundation called "Ideas for Peace" which lobbies for an end to Colombia's internal conflict against Marxist rebels, said Obama's win spelled trouble for Alvaro.

"John McCain isn't the only big loser in the election. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is too, for having espoused the ideological and warlike program of George W. Bush -- a stance that Americans have rejected," he told AFP.

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http://blogs.citypages.com.nyud.net:8090/canderson/images/smallestviolin.jpg

Candidates for the world's smallest violin.