Senators considering proposal to allow Uribe presidential return .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Senators considering proposal to allow Uribe presidential return
Monday, 30 May 2011 07:04
Tom Heyden

Pro-Uribe Senator Juan Carlos Velez admits that he is open to former President Alvaro Uribe's return to power for an unprecedented third term and preliminary proposals are already being analyzed, according to an interview in El Espectador Sunday.

"President Uribe is very young and still has plenty of energy to continue making war. He's only 58 years old and it is not strange to soon open the possiblity that he returns to the presidency," he said.

The Partido de la U. politician added that the project to allow Uribe to seek a third term "is starting" already.

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A third term would be unprecedented since former President Uribe already altered the consitution during his first term between 2002 and 2006, in order to be permitted to run for re-election, ultimately successfully, and remain president until 2010.


Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16604-senators-considering-proposal-to-allow-uribe-presidential-return.html

[Arctic Dave]

1. DICTATOR!!!! Bomb Colombia ASAP!

Oops, wrong person and country.

[rabs]

2. alvarito will probably be in jail by 2018

for crimes against humanity.

rec.

[MasonJar]

3. Why do they want him?

[COLGATE4]

4. You might consider asking the Colombians themselves, of whom

a huge majority favor Uribe.

[Judi Lynn]

5. "They" are the group of like-minded people in his party which he & his cousin, Mario Uribe Escobar

founded. His cousin, Mario, has been charged with profound corruption, buying up property (for almost nothing) the paramilitaries stole from campesinos they forced off their own farms.

This party was also found to have bribed some of the Senate members for their votes in creating new conditions in Colombia under which a President could run for another term.

Clearly the ones who want him to stay in power are the ones who make out like thieves when he and his cohorts are running the country. He wouldn't be able to have his old cabinet back, and the same Congressional support, however, as many of them have already been tried and convicted for corruption, and many are still being investigated at this moment, and some have simply fled the country.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Colombia's amoral development

Colombia's amoral development

Development can be carried out with justice, respect and dignity for the poor. Or with violence, displacement and the suppression of human rights. Colombia's former president chose the latter

Posted by Jonathan Glennie Monday 6 June 2011 07.00 BST
guardian.co.uk

Alvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombia's president between 2002 and 2010, is as divisive a figure as his neighbour and long-time phoney-war sparring partner, Hugo Chávez. Lauded by the right for saving the country from the brink of despair (Farc guerrillas had famously arrived at the outskirts of the capital Bogotá) and loathed on the left for his dismal record on human rights, his world lecture tour has followed a predictable pattern – he speaks at business school receptions while protesters scream at him from the pavements.

For most of the decade, Uribe led the only country in South America, with the possible exception of Peru, that followed an orthodox neoliberal approach to economics and wanted no part of the anti-imperialist sentiment that swept most of the new left to power, maintaining exceptionally tight political links with the US.

So how did Colombia fare under Uribe in terms of poverty reduction and development? The answer gives us a clue to the main battlegrounds in international development in the 21st century.

~snip~
Imagine a situation in which millions of people are displaced from their land by violence or the threat of violence. The land is taken over by businesses that develop mega plantations to produce bananas, palm oil, or, yes, coca. Jungle is cleared for cattle rearing. Mines are dug to extract copper, gold, emeralds or oil. The manufacturing sector, which creates jobs and strengthens the middle class, fails to advance while resource extraction and export, which employs very few and fills the pockets of the wealthy, is the key plank of development strategy.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jun/06/colombia-amoral-development-uribe

[joshcryer]

7. I thought unlimited term limits were a good thing?

Pfft, I guess not when it would benefit a right winger who loves the US.

[originalpckelly]

8. Ah yes, how willing we are to change our standards.

Of course, unlimited terms are always wrong no matter the politician.