"undercover US agents posed as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym, FARC"
And because of all the DOUBLE-DEALING, DOUBLE-CROSSING, DOUBLE-BLUFFING, DOUBLE-GAME of DRUG WAR GARBAGE!!!!
"an estimated 3 million people having been displaced, Colombia is second only to Sudan in the number of its internal refugees"
The Tale of Two Colombias
Colombia's Body Counts
I've already made my travel plans. You?
"Medellin has undergone renaissance; City has cleaned up and homicides down 90 percent" by Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times | March 29, 2009
MEDELLIN, Colombia - .... Medellin has undergone a renaissance over the last decade due to enlightened civic policy and public works, offering government officials proof that urban decline can be reversed....
I wish we could get something like that in America. Even those funds are looted and wasted; it shows in the deterioration of living conditions in this town. Even the public works money is looted.
Former rebels and paramilitary fighters are being reintegrated into Colombia's second-largest city in an innovative program adopted by the nation's demobilization director. The urban transit system has been upgraded to include a spectacular tramway that has cut commutes and become the city's icon.
I hate to do this to you, but.... Roadblock in Stimulus
See why I rage?
And then there's the new sewage system, which has cleaned up the formerly malodorous Medellin River and 24 creeks and greatly improved the city's image - and smell. The project has become a regional model for cleanup projects in densely populated areas.
Not in the USA.
The system, which includes educating residents and businesses near the river on how to prevent pollution, has converted the river district from an open cesspool to a zone where corporations such as Bancolombia and Carrefour have built major facilities. The sewage system project is receiving $580 million in loans from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Washington-based multinational development lender that is holding its annual meeting here this weekend in part to showcase what leaders believe is a success story.
Oh, it's the globalist paper trumpeting a globalist program. Imagine that.
In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, Luis Alberto Moreno, bank president, said the project shows that "investing in sanitation can have huge payoffs that go far beyond public health."
Would someone tell tht to AmeriKa's leaders, please.
They just author borrowing to fund wars-looters and banks so they can't get campaign contributions as kickbacks.
Despite the global financial crisis, the annual meeting is expected to draw 6,500 delegates from around the world, 40 percent more than the 2008 meeting in Miami. Main attractions include presentations by China, which joined the bank last year as part of its strengthened ties with Latin America.
Uh-oh. War promotion alert! The Red Chinese are in our backyard!
I knew there was an ulterior angle to this MSM success story!!!
China is expected to announce two multimillion-dollar development funds to provide loans for infrastructure and "increase the flow of credit amid the global financial crisis," according to a preliminary draft of the announcement. China has invested $4 billion in such a fund in Venezuela.
Now THAT'S SCARY!!!!!
Another lure for delegates is the host city's makeover, one so dramatic its principal architect, former mayor Sergio Fajardo, is a contender in the 2010 presidential race. Offering education and training in violent neighborhoods was crucial to his goal of offering youths an alternative to drugs and violence, he said.
Of course, the double-dealing, drug-running government wants AmeriKa's kids doped up. All the better to draft 'em with. I mean, there are PRESCRIPTION DRUGS in the WATER SUPPLY for crying out loud!
As for the violence, "look at the example set by the US government. No matter what the problem is, shoot it! Iraq's nuclear weapons? Shoot everybody (even though the nukes didn't exist). Afghanistan? Shoot them. North Korea? Shoot them (twice). Vietnam? Shoot them, then apologize. Japan? Shoot them, then buy TVs and computers from them. Germany? Shoot them, then buy cars from them. Cuba? Shoot them, then sneer at them forever. Indians sitting on land you want? Shoot them, then give them blankets infected with smallpox. Gee, I wonder why Americans grow up thinking that shooting people is the first thing to try." -- Wake the Flock Up
Yeah, good question.
"Whenever we reduced violence in an area, we immediately came up with projects - libraries, cultural, health, and entrepreneurship centers - in the poorest areas so the community could see the society was providing opportunities," Fajardo said.
Gee, TOO BAD YOU CAN'T GET THAT DEAL, 'murkn!!!!
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