Colext/Macondo Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior -------------------------------------------------- A ver si encuentro una jetograj�a que podr�a venir al caso. Luego te la mando... PANG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Salazar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PANG2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ColExt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 1:14 AM Subject: Re: MenemBush > �No hab�a por ah� un dictador de Panama que era "amigo" de Bush viejo? > Hasta que le dejo de cooperar con la guerra clandestina en Nicaragua. > > Y pensar que el p�blico americano se escandalizo con un felatio > disimulado..... > > Me imagino que para los puritanos es mejor escandalos con los traficantes de > la muerte, que con indiscreciones sexuales con pocas consequencias. > > Go figure.... > -----Original Message----- > From: PANG2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ColExt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:08 PM > Subject: MenemBush > > > > > >Bush Friend Arrested for Illegal Arms Trafficking > >http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/010607bush_menem.html > >by Ana Simo > > > >JUNE 7, 2001. A long-time friend of former U.S. President George H. Bush > was > >arrested today on charges of illegal arms trafficking. If found guilty, he > >could face a jail term of up to ten years. Only a phone call from the new > >Bush White House might spare him the indignity, he thinks. But the phones > >aren't ringing. The friend in trouble is the former President of Argentina, > >Carlos Menem, a golfing partner and business benefactor of the elder Bush. > >He > >is suspected of having illegally sold 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and > >Ecuador between 1991 and 1995, in violation of international arms > embargoes. > >Menem, who was put under house arrest today by a Buenos Aires federal > judge, > >said in his defense last weekend that the U.S. knew all about the arms > >sales. > >State Department spokesman Richard Boucher gave Menem the cold shoulder on > >Monday. He was unaware, he said, of any action by the U.S. government > >entailing approval or encouragement of Argentinean arms sales to Croatia. > >Given how profitable the Menem connection has been for the Bushes, one > might > >imagine Boucher was frostily putting interests of state ahead of the Bush > >family, until you realize that, with a Bush in the White House, they are > >essentially one and the same. In 1988, a few months before Menem was > elected > >for his first term, George W. Bush, the then oilman son of a sitting U.S. > >President, had tried to pressure the administration of outgoing President > >Ra�l Alfons�n to favor Enron, the Houston-based company, over other, more > >qualified bidders to build a gas pipeline in Argentina. He was > unsuccessful, > >but the Bushes hit it off with the high-rolling, big-spending Menem from > the > >start. One of Menem's first acts as President was to give Enron a > >$300-million sweetheart deal on the pipeline project. The Enron deal > >triggered a public outcry in Argentina. A congressional inquiry was > >demanded, > >and a special prosecutor launched a probe. But after Menem fired him, the > >probe fizzled. Enron and its founder and CEO, Kenneth Lay, another close > >friend of the elder Bush, were among the biggest contributors to George W. > >Bush's presidential campaign, as well as to his two gubernatorial > campaigns. > >George W. Bush's brother, Neil Bush, also had his fingers in the Argentina > >pie. He jetted to Buenos Aires for a tennis match with Menem the day after > >the latter was first elected, in 1989. Earlier, Neil had been involved in a > >failed plan to drill oil in Argentina, to be financed in part with a > >$900,000 > >loan from the Silverado Savings and Loan Bank in Denver, of which he was a > >director. The S&L collapsed in 1988 amidst a financial scandal, costing > U.S. > >taxpayers more than $1 billion. > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
