http://www.sabinabecker.com/ News of the Restless<http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/> A door at the end of a dead-end street... August 11, 2010 A body blow for the Colombia-US military accord
Meet the most odious piece of sneaky-cowardly political interference in the Americas since, well, since the US backed a bunch of putschists trying to overthrow Chavecito: [image: colombian-bases.jpg] It's not dead yet, but damned if there isn't blood in the water<http://www.noticias365.com.ve/temas/al-dia/colombia/corte-constitucional-colombiana-declarara-inexequible-acuerdo-militar-con-eeuu/>now: *La W Radio reports that the Constitutional Court of Colombia has declared the military-cooperation accord between Colombia and the US inexecutable, since it must first be passed by the Congress before being approved. The court declared the measure inconstitutional, but left it alive for a limited time. It gave the Colombian congress one year to decide whether or not to approve the accord. [...] The military accord produced a crisis between Colombia and Venezuela, after which [Venezuelan president] Hugo Chávez accused the US government of using Colombian territory to attack his country. * Translation mine. And the crisis unleashed by this odious accord isn't limited to Venezuela or its uppity, mouthy president. Many Colombians don't like it either: [image: colombia-says-no.jpg] These people and thousands of others like them have been protesting this accord since it was first announced. Let's hope the Colombian congress hears them and nullifies this bastard agreement, or there will be no peace within Colombian borders, much less between Colombia and its neighbors. PS: Otto has more, plus some winning snarkage. Go read.<http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2010/08/wowsers-colombias-airbase-agreement.html> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7Se7iswAanA/TGLI5j97m9I/AAAAAAAAMUE/OQdxRLlED7w/s1600/constitutional_court_colombia.jpg>Colombia's Constitutional Court dudettes and dudes If this happens, a very interesting turn of events is on the way. Colombia's interwebnetpipes site "La Silla Vacía", known for its insight and good contacts, today reports <http://www.lasillavacia.com/historia/17303> that Colombia's Constitutional Court is likely to throw out the USA/Colombia airebase agreement that allows the US to use Colombia as its own personal aircraft carrier. Here's the first paragraph of the Silla Vacia report translated, click through for the rest: Yesterday for several hours, the meeting of the Constitutional Court debated the agreement that allows gringo military the use of seven military and concluded the session without coming to a decision. Today they meet again. Although the input of two of the judges is still needed, three different sources told La Silla Vacía that there is a clear majority to vote down the agreement between Colombia and The United States. Continues here.<http://www.lasillavacia.com/historia/17303> UPDATE: What, you don't speak Spanish and want more translated? Oh, that's a tough one, isn't it? So let's get this straight: You have all these opinions that you get from news filtered to you by English language media, you consider yourself an expert on South America, you tell people that actually live here what's right and wrong....and you don't actually have any way of knowing what's being directly said...is that right? And then you write stuffy mails to bloggers demanding more information as if it were your God given right? 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