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It doesn't really matter what Chavecito says--even if he said nothing, the oppo papers would still put words in his mouth, the Dissociated Press would pick it up and a thousand fucking US papers would run with it. If they ever issued a correction, it would be buried in the classified section--probably the "business personals".

Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all.

Utpal: In Venezuela, I think it's a strong parallel to the US situation. The Venezuelan rightist opposition does nothing but shoot themselves in the foot and then cry out abroad about their repression.

The anti-Chavez right could have racked up all sorts of electoral victories, maybe even the Presidency, by now, had they only been something more than arrogant, conspiratorial, snobbish, ultra-right jackasses.

Yeah, the Venezuelan (and I suspect the Colombian media as well) are at it ... the most clownish behavior comes from Ven oppos (I am convinced that these people, the oppos have a serious suicidal streak).

So, Venezuela declares that its people better get ready to defend their country from Colombia and the USA if they should attack it, and Colombia insists that this means that Venezuela is planning to attack Colombia (which is why sometimes Hugo should figure out how to temper his mouth maybe just a bit, but, whatever), and then still in a huff Colombia delivers a letter of outrage to the UN Security Council, which replies, in effect, 'Thank you for your interesting newsletter', passes it around and outside of that will take no action.

El Cid,

Colombia is a fractured body maiming itself with regular people stuck in the middle of the self-inflicting mayhem.

It has become a place where life means nothing for far too many.

One day that body will allow itself to heal and become whole again.

Of course as long as meddlers safe in the US like Connie Mack et al are around, you can not have any peace in LA.

This is not important news.

The use of torture is generalized and systematic in Colombia, human rights activists from the Andean nation said in Geneva Wednesday.

Representatives of the Colombian Coalition Against Torture held a a press conference in the Swiss city to discuss the report the group is presenting this week before a U.N. rights panel.

“Torture continues to be generalized and systematic in Colombia. It is perpetrated by the Public Force, by the paramilitaries and by the guerrillas, but the party principally responsible for these acts is the State,” said Isabelle Heyer, a member of the Colombian Jurists Commission.

In its Alternative Report, the coalition cites 337 instances of torture in Colombia between July 2003 and June 2008, up from 187 during the previous five-year period.

Half of the 2003-2008 cases can be blamed on security forces, while another 42 percent are attributable to the right-wing militias, Heyer said.

She said sexual violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive modes of torture, calling it “an habitual, systematic and invisible practice, which enjoys impunity in the majority of cases and whose principal perpetrators are soldiers and police.”

That adds up to 92%. So, more than 9 out of 10 people tortured in Colombia are allegedly tortured by their own government, or by the paramilitaries to whom the Colombian courts so regularly tie the government.

This is not news.

I'd just like to paste up Bina's comment again:

Photoshop WIN!

Bwahahahahaha.

Is this, like, the research and analysis wing of godhatesfags.com?

How come two douchebags have names that are *that* close?

Is Connie Mack a senator or a rep?

Photoshop WIN!

Bwahahahahaha.