--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too have asked around about Al's operation and from > waht I understand he is on the classic shoestring budget, and still getting the job done. Can't say I know him at all other than through is work, and hte occasional exchange, but I can say I've spoken to many people who know him personally, that I know and trust, and they all had good things to say, so while he can be a grouch, I tend to appreciate him and his work. Thank you, Preston, for confirming that I exist. I wish Sartre were still around to help with these existential questions! You are in New York City, where I was born, raised and have lived at many points of my life, and with your reporters' skills I'm sure you've accessed my own network of friends and colleagues there, who know me in the flesh. I've been accused twice this week, from two directions, of not being an existing person. (Someone else claimed I was really the dean of Mexican journalists, Carlos Ramírez, which would be an honor.) Now, on to real work. The Narco News interview with exiled Colombian journalist Alfredo Molano on Plan Colombia is now available in Spanish at: http://www.vivecondrogas.com/molano.htm That's a new site based in Mexico, edited by Ricardo Sala. The title, vivecondrogas, is a play on TV Azteca's vive sin drogas (live without drugs) campaign, which is akin to the Partnership for a Drug Free America and just as hypocritical: TV Azteca was purchased from the government with $30 million laundered dollars of Salinas family money, and has been immersed in various scandals over its top personalities dealing drugs and walking with drug traffickers. When Kofi Annan arrived to give a UN prize to TV Azteca last year for its "Live Without Drugs" campaign, Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas wrote a communiqué observing the hypocrisy of the UN giving the award to a station revealed to have as some of its most prominent personalities, cokeheads. Vive Con Drogas means "Live With Drugs." What Sala and those folks have posited, in Spanish, is that a positive culture of drugs must be created. It's a really smart site. It's mainpage is available at: http://www.vivecondrogas.com The originally published English version of the Molano interview is still on the Narco News site: http://www.narconews.com/exiled.html salud y abrazo, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/16/_/475667/_/973112185/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
