"Plan Colombia has achieved its purpose. It is no longer necessary," Colombian VP

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March 16, 2009

Francisco Santos said on Sunday Plan Colombia, the multi-billion dollar anti-drug program carried on by the United States, should end ... http://www.semana.com/noticias-headlines/plan-colombia-achieved-its-purpose-it-is-no-longer-necessary-colombian-vp/121825.aspx

to set the death squads on him? They'll run his fat ass to the ground in no time at all, and chain saw him from one end to the other.

Uribe would rather die than relinquish one thin dime of the BILLIONS of U.S. taxpayers' dollars pouring into his country, where he's never even lived a day WITHOUT heavy U.S. support, the 3rd largest foreign aid package in the entire world.

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Run for your life, Vice President. Every second counts.

Uribe was in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and said F. Santos was mistaken. The foreign minister said the same thing in Bogota yesterday. El Tiempo today no longer even mentions F. Santos' remarks. Today the national police commander said Colombia needs the money.

Seems like the Uribe's government recently has become a herd of cats going in all directions.

btw, I posted F. Santos remarks yesterday on GD but it went down really fast.

The other Santos, Def. Min. Juan Manuel, has stirred up another controvery. He said Colombia could host "various" bases for the U.S. military when the U.S. must leave the Manta base. This prompted a fierce reaction from former President Pastrana (the one who got narco-money for his campaign) who said that would violate the constitution, which bars foreign troops on Colombian soil. Pastrana has called for a presidential commission to study Santos' remarks.

Colombian commenters on this story have said Pastrana and Santos both went to the same grade school. One day one of them stole the lunch pail of the other and to this day, they are still squabbling.
:rofl:

Meanwhile, down in Sao Paulo, this is big flap about a new school textbook for sixth graders; the book has a South American map in which Ecuador does not appear at all and Paraguay is superimposed over Uruguay. :rofl: