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Colombian Newspaper Does Catty Thing To Nice Lady : (

We don't report much on the Colombian press here because whatever, right, but HOLY POTATOES the bitchiest thing just happened today.

Claudia Lopez is was a longtime columnist for the country's largest paper, El Tiempo. Broken a lot of big stories, fierce critic of Uribe, yada yada. Anyway today she wrote a column critical of the paper itself, noting that its selective reporting on some agricultural scandal stands to benefit the political career of this one right wing politician whose family happens to own the newspaper. Got that?

Well guess what happened? They printed the column! Only with the following postscript:

"El Tiempo rejects Claudia López's statements as false, badly intentioned, and slanderous. The Directorship of this daily understands her strong criticism of our journalistic work to be a resignation letter, which we immediately accept."

Daaamn. Sensitive?

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El Cid

Another day, another Colombian military officer arrested for massacring civilians.

Posted by El Cid | October 14, 2009 1:37 PM

Posted on October 14, 2009 13:37

El Cid

Well, fuck 'em. Assholes.

This is the scandal discussed:

Cambio, a leading news magazine, ran a story that says how some AIS subsidies ended in the pockets of a few rich agro-entrepreneurs in northern Colombia.

According to the article, that has created a scandal of enormous proportions, four wealthy families in the department of [Uribe-supportikng, paramilitary infested, civilian massacring] Magdalena received around 25,000 million pesos (12.5 million dollars) in handouts.

The news became scandal material, in part because one of the recipients of the money was Valerie Dominguez, a former Miss Colombia.

The article claims that members of these four families divided their farms in smaller parts among themselves in order to qualify for more AIS funds.

Needless to say, the former Miss Colombia was not a struggling peasant nor small-holding farmer.

And Colombia's prosecutor is taking it very seriously:

Colombia's Inspector General launched an inquiry against the country's Minister and former Minister of Agriculture for their alleged involvement in the possibly irregular distribution of grants.

The Inspector General, Alejandro Ordoñez, stated that for the last 15 days his office had been assessing the collection of relevant information in order to establish the extent of the alleged irregularities.

His Office is also investigating the implication of the current and former Minister of Agriculture and six other Ministry officials in the scandal surrounding the distribution of the agricultural grants, reported newspaper El Espectador on Tuesday.

Controversy arose in September when it emerged that agricultural subsidies had been granted to certain companies and prominent Colombian families, while the subsidy was meant to stimulate equality in competition in the agricultural sector.

Posted by El Cid | October 13, 2009 10:16 PM

Posted on October 13, 2009 22:16

QueenBina

Oh, I simply adore it. I love the smell of hypocrisy, morning, noon or night.

Posted by QueenBina | October 13, 2009 9:03 PM

Posted on October 13, 2009 21:03

Utpal

The owner and possibly editor of the newspaper is the current head honcho of IAPA (SIP) ... haha ... dont we love irony?

Posted by Utpal | October 13, 2009 6:24 PM

Posted on October 13, 2009 18:24

QueenBina

What if they misunderstood?