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CBS This Morning never opens without a cheap shot at Donald Trump. Charlie Rose noted the Donald Trump was praising the relief efforts "others" were saying it was taking too long. Never mind that this is an island 1,000 miles from Miami. This isn't Texas or Florida. Never mind the 8,000 personnel that are currently there. Never mind that. Let's talk about who made the relief efforts much more difficult than they might have been otherwise. Hillary Clinton.Clinton has been bashing Trump non-stop since the hurricane struck the island. Trump is "not interested" in talking about Puerto Rico says she....

Guatemala City, Feb 12 (EFE).- Indian leader and Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu announced Monday the creation of an indigenous political party and her decision to run for the Guatemalan presidency in September's election. "In the political history of Guatemala, we the indigenous people have exercised our right to elect, but not to be elected, and the time has now come to do so," Menchu said during a press conference at her home in the Guatemalan capital. Indians represent 42 percent of Guatemala's population of 13 million, with mestizos constituting the next-biggest segment. Menchu said she still has not decided...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Maya Indian Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Wednesday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America.

(English-language translation) GERMANY - Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú wants to be President of Guatemala, but she will not be a candidate in the 2007 elections since she believes her country is not "yet mature" for it. "I want to be president. We, the indigenous peoples, can never change things if we don't assume power and finally decide on plans for our country," Menchú pointed out in an interview that the German weekly "Focus" will publish today. Despite everything, it doesn't make sense to her to declare a candidacy in the 2007 elections, since she believes the political and...

I just got done watching the Oprah interview where she tore author James Frey apart for lying in his "memoir," "A Million Little Pieces." Others joined in such as Richard Cohen and Frank Rich who DEMANDED honesty in memoir books that are supposedly non-fiction. Not too much of a problem for these folks to make such a demand on Frey since his lying "memoir" is non-political but would they make such demands on lying "memoirs" by liberals? "I, Rigoberta Menchu" leaps to mind since it is supposed to be the TRUE memoir of a Central American Indian who was oppressed...

In the wake of the execution without trial of three hijackers and the sentencing of 75 Cuban dissidents to long prison terms, more that 160 so-called intellectuals from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a declaration defending Fidel Castro's brutal regime. Among the "intellectuals" signing the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World," a vicious attack on their own country, were two Hollywood has-beens: Democrat house slave and washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte, who has a far higher opinion of the Cuban tyrant than of Colin Powell and Condi Rice, and former movie star...