Documentary evidence now suggests that Hugo Chavez’s junior partner in Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is apparently forging his own dangerous alliance with the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime …
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Obama gives up Colombia trade to China
America’s string-along -and-dither policy on a free-trade pact with Colombia is not only costing U.S. firms; it’s exacting a strategic price. China is now exploiting the void with a dry canal at a strategic choke point.
Drug submarine seized by Colombian navy
The Colombian navy has seized a submarine believed to have been built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico.
Farmers losing exports in Colombian free trade delay
As recently as 2008, U.S. farmers sold 80% of all farm imports in Colombia. That share fell to 41% last year and is expected to slump to 30% once Canada’s treaty kicks in.
Cruising for Trouble
Obama’s anti-British obsessions combined with Britain’s culpable and myopic dismantling of its own defenses create a highly dangerous situation.
Brazil floods: More than 500 dead
More than 500 people are now known to have died in floods in south-eastern Brazil, the country’s worst natural disaster for several decades.
Inflation of 27.2% in Venezuela in 2010, record in Latin America
How’s that socialist revolution workin’ out for ya Chavez?
Wikileaks exposes Chavez framing of opposition leader
According to a confidential WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Bolivia, the government of Evo Morales simulated a terrorist plot to blame UnoAmerica. The fraudulent scheme is identical to that used by Chavez later to arrest and jail UnoAmerica President, Alejandro Pena Esclusa.
U.S. Revokes Venezuelan Ambassador’s Visa Amid Diplomatic Feud With Chavez
The U.S. revoked the visa of President Hugo Chavez’s ambassador to Washington as part of a five-month diplomatic feud between the two countries.
Israel first to send aid to Colombian flood victims where 2 million have been left homeless
Two million people have been left homeless and hundreds have been killed in the floods in recent weeks. Most of the damage has been in Medellin.