Colombia

Paying Off Clinton's Debt: Not A Dime For Mark Penn

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colombia, Hillary Clinton, Karen Hughes, Corporate Power, Class Warfare, Mark Penn, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

Penn has hated everything about the movement for change long before he helped pilot the Clinton presidential campaign to disaster. Now he's teaming up with Karen Hughes in a "bi-partisan" effort.

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Betancourt Rescue Footage Released (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home

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French officials say former hostage Ingrid Betancourt will be awarded the Legion of Honor on Bastille Day. Betancourt -- who was released from six y...

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Ingrid for President / Ingrid Para Presidenta

David Paul Appell | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: President Uribe, Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Colombian Hostage, Colombia, Mccain Uribe, Mccain Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt, Ingrid Betancourt Reunited, Uribe, Alvaro Uribe, ÁLvaro Uribe, Alvaro Uribe Government, Chavez FARC, Colombia FARC, Farc, Plan Colombia, FARC Guerillas, FARC Guerrillas, Farc Hostages, Politics News
David Paul Appell

Betancourt has hinted at another run for the top job. If she does, she could become not just one the world's most respected presidents but also a much-needed beacon of hope in Latin America.

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Colombia Foils Bomb Plot After High-Profile Hostage Rescue

Reuters | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colombia Hostage Rescue, Colombia, Colombia Hostages, Farc, Politics News

Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, i...

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The F Word: Celebration in Colombia? Not so Fast

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Grittv, Flanders, John McCain, Farc, Colombia, Colombian Hostage, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Over 400 hundred labor organizers have been murdered during the Uribe regime alone. And for all those six years Washington has done nothing.

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Obama to Represent the Uprising on Trade?

David Sirota | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Trade, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Free Trade, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

Politicians supporting the Colombian trade deal have blood on their hands - there's no other way to put it.

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Colombia Rescues Ingrid Betancourt, Americans From FARC

AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Colombian Presidential Candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Farc Hostages, Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia, Farc Us Hostages, Farc, Us Military Contractors, Home News

***UPDATED 9:21pm ET -- July 2, 2008*** Colombia - Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid B...

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McCain's Lobbyist Loophole

David Donnelly | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, John McCain, Trade, Colombia, Lobbyists, 2008 Presidential Race, Fire the Lobbyists, Charlie Black, Campaign Money Watch, Politics News
David Donnelly

McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.

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Why Is McCain Afraid To Talk To U.S. Workers About Trade?

James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade, Workers, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, McCain Trade, Politics News
James P. Hoffa

By traveling to Colombia to promote a trade program that will continue the race to the bottom, McCain is ignoring the crimes of its regime, which condones the torture and murder of trade unionists.

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Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Colombian Broadcast System

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Black John McCain, John McCain, Nafta, Colombia, Politics News

John McCain is lighting out for Latin America, because maybe they have some electoral votes or something! And he wants everyone to know that he is in...

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Gap Between Latin America and Washington Still Growing

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interpol, Colombia, Latin America, Farc, Hugo Chavez, Latin America Policy, Uribe, FARC Manuel Marulanda, Media Coverage of Latin America, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Washington's foreign policy establishment - and much of the U.S. media -- was taken by surprise this week when President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, st...

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In the Bush White House, "Laptop" is Spanish for "WMD"

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Venezuela, Latin America Policy, Farc, Colombian Death Squads, Colombia, Media Coverage of Latin America, HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, Alvaro Uribe Government, U.S. Policy in Latin America, Interpol, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

Obama's "hope" does not extend beyond our southern border as he too ignores the violation of sovereignty and the human rights atrocities of the Uribe administration in Colombia.

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Paraiso Travel Reopened My Eyes to the Immigrant's Plight - Illegal and Legal

Shira Levine | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TFF 2008, Ana De La Reguera, Jonathan Sanger, Illegal Immigration, Simon Brand, Colombia, Paraiso Travel, Papa Doc, Tribeca Film Festival, Angelica Blandon, Illegal Immigrants, John Leguizamo, Aldemar Correa, Haiti, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Entertainment News
Shira Levine

Paraiso Travel doesn't glorify the anguish illegal immigrants experience with a happy ending or a triumphant win.

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The Labor Movement's Principled Position on Colombia FTA

Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Collective Bargaining, President Uribe, Labor Union, Central Union of Workers (CUT), United Steelworkers (USW), New York Post, U. S. Labor Movement, New York Times, Paramilitaries, Colombia, Free Trade Agreements, Colombia FTA, FARC Guerillas, Miami Herald, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

The U.S. labor movement is telling the truth about the dire labor situation in Colombia, and it is opposing the Colombia FTA based upon its principled solidarity with its union brothers and sisters.

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From Jack Welch's Screeds to George Bush's Mouth

David Sirota | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade, Nafta, Colombia, Jack Welch, Politics News
David Sirota

The goal of policies like NAFTA and the Colombian Free Trade Agreement are not to better nations' economies -- it is to better the bottom line of corporate campaign contributors.

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Bush Administration, More Isolated in Latin America, Cries "Terrorism"

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ecuador, Hugo Chavez, Cuban Americans, Latin America, Venezuela, Terrorism, Bush Administration, Farc, New York Times, Chavez, Colombia, George W Bush, Florida Primary, Republicans, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Washington has alienated Latin America through its economic policy prescriptions, which are widely associated with Latin America's unprecedented long-term economic failure.

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The Road To 'Paraiso Travel'

Jonathan Sanger | Posted 04.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TFF 2008, Colombia, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Paraiso Travel, Entertainment News
Jonathan Sanger

I've always had a secret desire to make films about the experiences of Colombians and other Hispanics because of my personal experiences in their countries. Unfortunately, all Hollywood had been making were films about drug dealing, as if that was the only significant activity below our borders.

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A Pollster Takes Me to the Cyber-Woodshed on Colombia and the Drug War: I Respond

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Colombia, Pollsters, Bill Clinton Colombia, Polling, Drug War, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Mark Mellman, War on Drugs, Mike Isikoff, Opinion Polling, Drug Smuggling, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Writing in The Hill, pollster Mark Mellman took me to the cyber-woodshed yesterday. Mellman claims that Lockheed hired him to produce "a serious study on the underexplored subject of drug policy." Very noble of Lockheed.

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Empowering Chavez

Philip Giraldi | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Venezuela, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Colombia, Oil, Chavez, Venezuela Oil, Politics News
Philip Giraldi

Like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, Hugo Chavez relies on blunders by the United States to legitimize and empower himself.

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The Democratic Culture of Corruption

David Sirota | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Max Baucus, Baucus, Free Trade, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Politics News
David Sirota

The Max Baucus story that adds credence to the concept that when it comes to core economic and corruption issues, America is governed by one party with two separately named wings.

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Clintons' Squabbles: Not Funny

Flavia Colgan | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Bill Clinton, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Clinton Uribe, Uribe, Alvaro Uribe, Free Trade, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Politics News
Flavia Colgan

At some point, when Sen. Clinton claims she was trying to defeat the Colombian free trade deal, Bill Clinton must have told her that he was planning on making some money to promote the deal.

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On Ludlow Anniversary, Blood Money Drenches Democrats

David Sirota | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi, Free Trade, Colombia, Free Trade Agreements, Human Rights, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Colombia Free Trade, Politics News
David Sirota

The lawmakers who pretend to weep and cry at the atrocities in Tibet and Darfur maneuver to reward a Colombian government that helps commit human rights atrocities.

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Colombia and Bill: The Unanswerable Question for Hillary Clinton

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Colombia, Free Trade, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2008, Colombia Free Trade, Video, Hillary Clinton Colombia, Colombia, Sam Stein, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Politics News
Eric Schmeltzer

2008-04-11-hillary_colombia.jpg Either she admits that she's not really as opposed to the trade deal as she says, or that she has no control over Bill, which of course is a bigger problem, as we'd be facing a "Two-Headed President" scenario.

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What a Story! Candidate Personally Receives Hundreds of Thousands From Foreign Sources, Private Interests

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sean Wilentz, Bill Clinton, Media, James Carville, Elton John, Hillary Clinton, Colombia, Rudy Giuliani Fox News, Elvis Costello, Barack Obama, Video, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The story of the Clinton family's income has received much less play in the media than the money her subordinates received from the same sources.

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The Clinton-Colombia Connection: It Goes Back a Long Way

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Howard Wolfson, Glover Park Group Colombia Trade Pact, Hillary Clinton Colombia, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Colombia, Howard Wolfson Clinton, Clinton Frank Giustra, Howard Wolfson Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Bill Clinton Colombia Trade, Cafta, Frank Giustra, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Mark Penn Colombia, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

A week ago, if you'd asked most people to say the first thing that popped into their heads when they heard the word "Colombia," you might have gotten: "coffee," "cocaine," or maybe even "kidnappings." Today that list would probably be led by "Clinton."

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