A perceptive article by Amy Goldman of Democracy Today. Read this and ask yourself what the hell Canadian P.M. Harper is doing in sealing a free trade agreement with this regime. He's getting right out there in showing his stripes. This man's got to go, the sooner the better.
It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free. She was the Green Party candidate running for president of Colombia against Alvaro Uribe in 2002 when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) just days after appealing to the FARC to stop its campaign of kidnapping. She was held hostage for more than six years and was released last week along with 14 others. The flamboyant rescue operation by the Colombian army has been splashed across newspapers and TV screens globally, but the celebration of their release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.
Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime - CommonDreams.org
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