Colext/Macondo Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior -------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 7th, marked Colombia's President, Andres Pastrana Arango, first year in office. He was elected with the higher plurality in the history of Colombia's electoral process. He promised his people a change aimed at a better tomorrow, instead what he has created is the worse of times. People of all level of the Colombian society are seeking a way out of Colombia in search of a better way of life. All the ills affecting Colombia that Pastrana was supposed to medicate are now in a terminal ill stage. His country rampage corruption is augmenting and his peace talk is going nowhere. All things considered, Pastrana is a poor excuse for a president of 40 million people. He first year as the Commander-in-Chief is marked more by failures than by accomplishments. Crime is in the increase, the quality of being unjust and unfair to the have-not is climactic; he have taxed the middle-class to the border of extinction while unemploynet is much higher than under Ernesto Sampel, the man he replaced as the Head of State. Sampel, from the outset, became Pastrana's victim. Cynically, Pastrana who was Sampel's opponent in the election of 94, waited until after he was sworn as the new president to disrupt his government with the charges that he, Sampel, accepted campaign money from the Cali drug cartel. The charges brought Sampel's government to an unable to govern situation, made worse when Washington sided with Pastrana against Sampel. In short, Pastrana's election theme, calling for a change, has in fact created a change to the worse. The millions spent in traveling expenses since taking office has many Colombians shaking their heads. Anthony Gazzette Latin America Watchdog Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. ----------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT in the BODY of the message.
