Uribe has highest approval rating in latin american, next Correa

[Bacchus39]

Uribe has an 84% approval rating, Correa 61%

http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=3&cid=1508354&schid=181&secid=189

Uribe y Correa son los más aprobados
No afectó ataque contra las FARC



El presidente de Colombia, Alvaro Uribe es el mandatario latino con mejor aceptación, según una encuesta.
AFP


MÉXICO - El presidente de Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, y en menor medida el de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, fueron en marzo los mandatarios de América Latina con mayores índices de aprobación, según la recopilación mensual de encuestas de la consultora Mitofsky divulgada en México.

Uribe ocupa el primer lugar

Uribe, "al cumplir 68 meses de gestión y después del conflicto con Ecuador por el bombardeo a un campamento de las FARC aparece en primera posición con 84% de aprobación, seis puntos más que en la recopilación del mes de enero", reveló la encuestadora. El colombiano fue de largo el jefe de Estado mejor valorado por su país, "seguido precisamente por el mandatario de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, que incrementa en cinco puntos su aprobación y se coloca con 62%", añadió Mitofsky.

Muy cerca de Correa, con 61% de favoritismo se encuentra el mexicano Felipe Calderón, cuya valoración se hizo en febrero, antes de desatarse el conflicto entre Bogotá y Quito, que lo salpicó debido a que en el ataque a la base guerrillera murieron cuatro estudiantes mexicanos. Además, el sondeo tampoco se hace eco de la polémica generada en México por la propuesta de reforma energética que el mandatario presentó a principios de abril.













Tras este primer grupo, se encuentran seis presidentes que consiguieron un apoyo de sus respectivas poblaciones de entre 50 y 60%: el salvadoreño Antonio Saca (59%), el boliviano Evo Morales (56%), el brasileño Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (55%), el panameño Martín Torrijos (51%), el venezolano Hugo Chávez (51%) y el costarricense Oscar Arias (50%).

El resto de líderes latinoamericanos suspendió en la percepción de sus compatriotas, con porcentajes que van del 49% para el guatemalteco Alvaro Colom al 5% del paraguayo saliente, Nicanor Duarte.

La argentina Cristina Kirchner obtuvo 47% de opiniones favorables, el dominicano Leonel Fernández 46%, la chilena Michelle Bachelet 46%, el uruguayo Tabaré Vázquez 45%, el hondureño Manuel Zelaya 38%, el peruano Alan García 28% y el nicaragüense Daniel Ortega apenas 21%.

[Peace Patriot]

1. 84% of the people who dare to speak to pollsters in Colombia support Uribe, but

that's not saying much. Oppose Uribe, in Colombia, and you risk getting 'disappeared.' The protesters who recently organized a public protest demonstration against Uribe's deaths squads have all been killed. How can an accurate poll be conducted in that atmosphere? Thousands of protesters, political leftists, union organizers, small peasant farmers, human rights workers and journalists have been slaughtered by rightwing death squads with very close ties to the Uribe government. People who oppose him would not be very likely to give their honest views to a pollster. And besides that--besides the ferocious intimidation within Colombia proper--Uribe's government only controls about 80% of Colombia's territory. What do the people think of Uribe in the FARC territories, where much of the Colombian military and paramilitary death squad activity occurs, and where Uribe's government is responsible for 80% of the carnage, according to human rights groups? Think the peasants--who have seen their friends and neighbors and family members killed by Uribe's forces--would venture an opinion of Uribe to strangers showing up, asking questions?

No self-respecting pollster would conduct polls in that circumstance. But then, Mitofsky is one of the most corrupt of the polling organizations. They are the ones who doctored their 2004 exit polls in the Bush-Kerry election, to force their exit polls--which said Kerry won--to fit the results of Diebold/ES&S "trade secret" code vote tallies (Bush won). They are no better than Penn & Schoen, --who doctored polls in Venezuela in support of an aborted second coup attempt. Mitofsky should never have agreed to participate in an election run on "trade secret" code in the first place. Bottom-line conditions of transparency did not exist.

And, finally, the source--univision--is about as reliable as Faux News. They have a big stake in convincing everyone that their fascist views are on the rise--and maybe they are, in the "Alice in Wonderland" world corporate news monopolies. Yet, somehow, leftists keep getting elected, and re-elected, in South America--most recently in Paraguay. The corporate propaganda mills in South America are just as bad as the corporate propaganda mills here, but they don't have non-transparent voting systems to reinforce their delusions. Most people really don't want Bushite-controlled fascists torturing and killing them, and stealing all their common wealth. In South America--which has done its homework on transparent vote counting and other democratic institutions--most people vote for leftists, and against fascists--and they will continue to do so, no matter what Mitofsky or Univision says, so long as they employ vote counting that everyone can see and understand, and maintain their other democratic strengths. As for people here, who knows how they vote? No one can tell.