Hey remember back in May when Colombian prosecutors were getting closer and closer to linking thousands of "extrajudicial killings" to the Uribe administration until the president extradited all the key witnesses to the U.S. in the middle of the night on drug charges? And remember how the Washington Post's ed board at the time praised the extraditions as a "dramatic move" and called it a "paralyzing blow" to drug dealers? And how they went on to mock and bully human rights groups for noting that mass graves might be slightly more important than bagging the guys that sold the blow to their coked up teens?
Well it's three months later and we're allowed to talk about it candidly now because there's no Colombian trade bill before Congress, and so the Post has decided to run this report on its front page today, explaining what a bummer it is that we're never going to know for sure exactly how many deaths Uribe may be responsible for because of those stupid extraditions. Double : (
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Hey, y´all, step into my time machine and let me take you for a ride... Fasten your seat belts. Here we go:
Swoosh! Ok, we're in Panama in 1987. Panama's ex-chief of staff, colonel Roberto Díaz Herrera accuses general Manuel Noriega of (1) having collaborated with the CIA in engineering that airplane crash that took general Torrijos' life, (2) of having manipulated the presidential elections of 1984 in favor of Nicolás Ardito Barletta, and (3)of having killed Hugo Spadafora.
This caused a stir in Panama, investigations were underway and then, presto!, two courts in Florida indict Noriega on drug trafficking charges and the rest is history...
The general takes refuge in the Vatican embassy, the marines swoop down and camp outside the embassy with their ghetto blasters, and then I think, Noriega turned himself in at a Dairy Queen in Panama City.
And he remains in jail in Florida to this day. And nobody is the wiser.
Not much has changed. I suppose when Uribe becomes a political liability, they'll just nab him for drug trafficking (running planes for Pablo Escobar) and jail him in Miami.
What mass graves?
Posted by Brasil66
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August 20, 2008 9:27 PM
Posted on August 20, 2008 21:27