during the same 2007 spring when former vice president Al Gore cancelled his appearance at a Miami environmental conference because he did not want to share a podium with Uribe, the hemisphere’s poster boy for state-sponsored terrorism, narco-trafficking, and assassinations of opposition political, labor and social movement leaders
Mensa Predia
Uribe’s atack on Obama
The Godstitution
There has recently been a heated discussion over the mention of God in the new Constitution that is being crafted by the National Assembly. It is not clear what all parts in this discussion are expecting from the constitution. It would be helpful to take a step back and clearly state what our responsibility as citizens is as we complete this mission.
It is a great opportunity that we have, and a great responsibility too, for we are drafting the constitution of our republic. There is no doubt that the several unsuccessful attempts to a new start have marked this very important and meaningful duty as vain or pointless. Yet, if our objective is to succeed, Read More
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Support from the Right
En el Ecuador, el mezquino “respaldo” al Gobierno por parte de la derecha ultra de charreteras o de corbatín, golpista o conspiradora, astuta o bobalicona, y su periodismo alineado, ha sido más bien un apoyo… a Uribe. Qué grandeza…
Omar Ospina García, Los hechos, que son tercos…
Translation:
In Ecuador, the stingy support for the government from the right, being it with epaulettes or bowties, revolutionary or conspiratory, astute or idiotic, and its aligned journalism, has stood behind… Uribe. Great…
What is Socialism of the XXI Century?
The discourse around this new wave Socialism seems to be lost in the air. While some throw it around insultively, or mock it as a backwards soviet nostalgic utopia, many hold it up in the air looking at it with glaring eyes. Its proponents are fiercely attacked not only as yielding an radical undesirable ideology, but as being dishonorable, unethical and sinister; they are the inherent enemy of everything that is good, democratic and real. Read More
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