Posted on 05/24/2007 12:02:45 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Latin America: As U.S. allies go, we can't get one better than Colombia. It helps us a lot and now seeks free trade. But all it gets from Congress is a slap in the face. We now risk losing a vital ally.
President Alvaro Uribe is Colombia's greatest leader since its 1824 independence. His achievements in diminishing a 44-year war and turning Colombia into a free-market garden spot are on a par with Lincoln's and Reagan's. Yet as little as he has to be modest about, his leadership is derided and undercut in Congress.
In six short years, Uribe has transformed Colombia from a terrifying hellhole wracked by civil war, drugs, corruption and refugees into a true success story.
Not only is the country winning its long, deadly war against Marxist narcoterrorists, it's fortifying its economy by cutting taxes, honoring property rights and easing regulation. Its annual growth is 6.8%, a third higher than the Latin American average.
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I dunno... maybe the cost of pot or coke are too high for them.
Uribe isn’t leftie enough for them.
A number of factors, but one of the largest is that Colombia’s “success” may be interpreted as the United States’ “success” which may be interpreted as Bush’s “success.” Colombia is just caught in the crossfire. It could’ve been any country.
Because they are sympathetic to Marxist totalitarian doctrine?
The keep making the bogus claim that our alliances are suffering. I guess they want to make that ruue.
because he is a communist
Democrats are evil.
They pick on it because it has emerged as a US ally. Also, of course, it shows how lousy Clinton’s policy was. And anything that shows up their hero must be punished.
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