Conservative Ivan Duque poised to be Colombia's new president
Colombia election results show Iván Duque, the young conservative protégé of a powerful former president, is poised to become the country’s next president.
Duque holds a 12-point lead over leftist contender Gustavo Petro with nearly 97% of voting centers reporting in a preliminary count.
The 41-year-old Duque would take charge of the South American nation of 50 million from outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos as it implements a still fragile peace accord after more than five decades of armed conflict. Duque soared in the polls as he promised to roll back parts of the historic accord with leftist rebels but not “shred it to pieces.”
Duque gained his front-runner status thanks in large part to support from Álvaro Uribe, the former president who is both widely admired and detested in Colombia.
At: https://wsvn.com/news/politics/conservative-ivan-duque-poised-to-be-colombias-new-president/
Colombia's President-elect Iván Duque (right) and his political mentor, former conservative President - and DIA-designated kingpin - Álvaro Uribe.
A defeat for President Santos' peace process?
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and straight back to the big annual US taxpayer-financed Colombian gov't military aid, which already is well over $9 billion since 2000.
Making Colombia "great" again by reinstating lethal doses of industrial strength Monsanto's Roundup which has always drifted all over the place, destroying crops in ordinary Colombian farmers' fields, devastating the domestic livestock, and fish, birds, other animals throughout the areas.
Right-wingers gotta get back to reveling in the excessive US-taxpayer supported boatloads of money always awarded them to help them in their "war" against "leftists" and other political enemies, as their new Uribe-promoted cheese-ball criminal-family candidate parks his giant butt in Uribe's old disreputable office he held onto, contrary to Colombian law, after his political group bribed Colombian senators to extend his reign to eight years.
Images created by Colombian school children when their teachers assigned them the project of showing the effects of US-financed aerial spraying, claimed to be destroying "coca" planted in Colombia, as it has been for thousand of years, just as it has throughout the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile....
Bush Policy of Spraying Poison on Children
redstatehatemonitor
Community
Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 6:38 AM CST
School children from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador actually drew these pictures included in this diary. The United States government's primary strategy for combating the narcotics industry and the leftist FARC guerillas that control an area of Colombia the size of SWITERLAND involves aerial crop spraying with a deadly poison sold on the market as Roundup weedkiller. The spray not only kills coca plants, but any other, legal, crops in the vicinity. Sadly it also kills livestock and far worse it has also killed many children.
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Over 2.5 million people have now fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms. These internal refugees, unemployed, living in squatters' communities in the cities to which they have fled, are the principal result of the war so far. Many Colombians believe that they are its intended result, that the real aim of the war against insurgents and against drugs is really to get small farmers off their land in order to make room for development. Under Colombia's coca fields is oil. Paramilitaries terrorize people into leaving their land, and labor organizers are the group most targeted for assassination. More than 3,000 have been killed in the past 15 years.
Colombia is a prime example of U.S. Military clout being used to serve the interests of big oil corporations . Plan Colombia is real bad news for the poor of Colombia because it increases the level of terror in their country. The Whitehouse fails to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence is the government of Colombia and the right wing paramilitary forces which receive aid and full cooperation from Colombia's army.
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The combination is thought to increase the danger to animal and human life. Even the regular formula sold in the U.S. Carries a label warning against possible damage to aquatic organisms, pets, grazing animals, rabbits, tortoises, fowl--and people. The label warns that one must not eat the fruit or nuts of trees that have been in the area sprayed with the chemical for 21 days. But these safety standards are not applied to the aerial spraying in Colombia.
More:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/02/27/464886/-Bush-Policy-of-Spraying-Poison-on-Children
Drawing by Colombian children in Putumayo of the before
and after effects of fumigation on their lands
(photo courtesy of Witness for Peace-Colombia).
The puffy guy is getting his instructions from the slimy little Teflon Don.
Ecuador's Rafael Correa takes notes while Alvaro Uribe shows him how it's done
when Uribe the Great combs his hair.
Correa looks impressed being with someone who
combs his hair so well.
I googled 'Duque + Uribe', and that one stood out to me right away. It really seemed to capture the dynamic between the two.
Sometimes it's easy to tell who's in charge - and who has to pretend he's loving it.
Joshua Goodman and Christine Armario, Associated Press
Updated 5:26 pm, Monday, June 18, 2018
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Uncertainty loomed over Colombia's fragile peace deal on Monday with the victory of one of its most hawkish critics in a bruising presidential runoff that laid bare deep divisions in the South American nation as it emerges from decades of bloody conflict.
Ivan Duque, a law-and-order disciple of a powerful former president, won Sunday's vote with a commanding 12-point lead over rival Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and ex-Bogota mayor.
On the campaign trail, Duque repeatedly vowed to roll back benefits inscribed in the deal, such as demanding that rebel commanders behind scores of atrocities first confess to their war crimes and compensate victims before they are allowed to take up the congressional seats they have been promised in the accord.
But once he takes office in August from the peace deal's architect, President Juan Manuel Santos, Duque is likely to tread softer if he wants to broaden his base of support and unite the country, analysts said.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Doubts-looms-over-Colombia-peace-deal-with-hawk-s-13004647.php
