Here's another one:
"Pro-Uribe party leads in Colombia vote for congress" by Bloomberg News | March 16, 2010
BOGOTA — Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos’s La U party was leading as vote counting for congressional elections continued yesterday, consolidating his position as the front-runner to succeed Alvaro Uribe.
The four main parties that have backed Uribe the past eight years were projected to win 66 of 102 seats in the Senate, El Tiempo newspaper reported, citing the National Registry....
“The Colombian people were very clear yesterday, saying, we want these policies to continue,’’ Santos, who was a defense minister under Uribe, told Bogota-based W Radio yesterday.
The congressional vote, a gauge of political sentiment before the May 30 presidential elections, went off with little violence after rebels had threatened to disrupt balloting....
Uribe retained a more than 60 percent approval rating throughout his two terms in office by pushing back cocaine-funded Marxist guerrillas and attracting record foreign investment.Related: Colombia's Kid Soldiers
Well, when you control the rebels, insurgents, what have you, I guess you can call of the dogs for elections (if the agenda calls for it). One wonders why the unmentioned drug cartels were not planning anything.
Of course, that second item most important.
The Constitutional Court last month barred him from seeking a third term.
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Also see: The Silent Violations of Venezuelan Airspace
Out of sight, out of mind, 'eh, MSM?
