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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:32 PM Jun 2014

US ‘first in line’ to support Colombia: US Vice President Joe Biden

http://colombiareports.co/vice-president-joe-biden-is-due-to-arrive-in-colombia-on-tuesday-after-watching-the-united-states-beat-ghana-soccer-world-cup-in-brazil/

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United States Vice President Joe Biden is due to arrive in Colombia on Tuesday, after watching the United States beat Ghana at the Soccer World Cup in Brazil, local media reported.

“The Vice President wishes to demonstrate to the Colombian government and its people that the United States is first in line to support their aspirations.”

Biden’s statements may be alluding to the Colombian Government’s ongoing peace process with the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC.

The US, through Secretary of State John Kerry, has most recently expressed its satisfaction with the dialogues, when the two parties reached an agreement with regards to drug trafficking.
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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
4. No there is alot more, the crime, corruption, inflation, murder rate, judicial system, prisons,
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jun 2014

payments to importers and exporters of other nations, poor infrastructure, increased poverty, lack of housing, rationing, and government ineptitude in addition to lack of toilet paper and other essentials. At least they got cheap gas though.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
5. I know, you're a "I hate Venezuela" troll,
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:29 PM
Jun 2014

one who gloats about every bit of bad news you can find or your fellow haters can make up, and who supports economic wreckers.
Very much like the Republican attitude toward "that socialist Obama's administration", loving the wrecking and blaming the target.
Sick, really.

Judi Lynn

(160,470 posts)
7. We used to think the right-wing trolls in our country couldn't get any uglier.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:05 PM
Jun 2014

That was before the new, virulent, violent strain of wingers arrived.

These people have absolutely NO standards whatsoever. They fully work toward returning the poor deeply desperate times, in which they have to fight every day to keep from starving, and seeing their children starving, living without a possibility of hope, just as it was before our country started becoming "civilized" with more humane legislation to start protecting children from being worked to death in factories, and workers from being murdered by henchmen sent by the business owners, etc., etc., etc.

Sorta like Colombia!

Now the right is working as hard as they can (while never having to leave their air-conditioned offices, cars, homes, of course, or working up a sweat) to derail ALL progress the country has made and sent it right back into hell.

How dare they worm their way into places designed for progressives, then try to pass themselves off as being legitimate posters. Jesus H. Christ.

Everyone can see, smell them miles away.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
12. Its not a "bit" of bad news, the whole administration is bad news. It blows
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 09:23 AM
Jun 2014

only an idiot would be a chavista.

 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
6. We don't make shit up
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:47 PM
Jun 2014

The numbers are there for you to see. Hell, they were even given by the government itself. The ones who ARE making up shit about outside forces crippling an entire country's economy (without any serious evidence to support such claims, mind you) are the Venezuelan government, who are so goddamn broke that now they're trying to see how they can sell more oil to their supposed sworn enemy, the USA (words right out of Rafael Ramirez, the minister of PDVSA, not my own.) Also, I really don't think the "I hate Venezuela" term is correct to use either, you're making it sound like Bacchus hates Venezuela the country, its people, its culture, etc, when in reality all he's ever done is speak out against the Chavista government and the really poor decisions it's made in terms of socioeconomics as well as it's blatantly obvious repression against voices who dare speak against it. If anything, you're the one coming off as full of hate and resentful.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
8. "we"
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:08 PM
Jun 2014

Who are you trying to kid, asserting that the extreme right-wing Latin American economic and democracy wreckers that you and Bacchus4.0 promote and support "don't make things up", that it isn't just your pretence that the economy and democracy wrecking practices that you endorse in your attempts to overthrow leftist gov'ts have no effect, aren't cause of damage.

As if the fascist history of the Latin American right wing, including that of the Plutocrats that you support, doesn't exist, as if you have an answer - and you could put it into effect if only there were a right-wing coup to get rid of those leftists/socialists.

You guys "alert" my every fucking post.
This is my last response to any of you.

Bye.

 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
10. Hey, I'm just going by what the evidence shows
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:23 PM
Jun 2014

And the evidence shows the economic shortcomings of Venezuela are due more to the poor handling of the government more than anything. If you are so ideologically blinded that you don't want to accept those facts as truth, then well, you're no better than the Tea Party/ultra conservative bigots you hate so much.

And this forum is about discussion, so I'm gonna keep talking as much as I want about whatever the threads are discussing, and if you're gonna whine and bitch about the fact that I'm trying to engage in a serious debate with you and then so immaturely quit cuz you were "annoyed" by an adult conversation, then I guess this is not the place for you.

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