Colombian President Alvaro Uribe claimed in an radio interview Tuesday, to be have documents proving that an unnamed presidential candidate was planted in Colombia by a "foreign government" in order to "strain conditions" during the upcoming elections.
"A foreign government is trying to block Colombian presidential candidates and insert [its own] candidates into the Colombian presidency," Uribe said.
"I have [the evidence] in my hands, that's why I'm assuming the responsibility of denouncing it to Colombians and to international opinion, and to ask the country not to allow foreign governments to block our candidates nor impinge their own on the Colombia presidency," Uribe said.
The Colombian president did not name the candidate in question.
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tomtom33
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... I wonder sometimes if I am watching cartoons or reading the news. What chance would any candidate planted by any foreign government have of being elected President of Colombia? |
tomtom33
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... Guess you haven't been watching Obama lately. You'd think those nasty old insurance companies had caused the health care crisis. And of course everything is Bush's fault. Fear mongering was not invented by Bush. Nor was it invented by Joe McCarthy or Hitler. |
Quico
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... It's so, so boring, this gringo fixation with making EVERYTHING about the US. Hey gringos, look up from your navels once in a blue moon, would ya? This site is about Colombia, damn it, Colombia. With an "o". (Hint, it's not the one in South Carolina.) |
Quico
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... As a Venezuelan, it is my prerogative to make every single thread about Venezuela, instead. On this one occassion, I'm amply justified. Chávez barely hides his support for every fringy lefty in every election in the hemisphere these days. (Can you say maletagate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletinazo ?) AMLO in Mexico, Ollanta in Peru, Cristi in BB.AA., that child molester who now runs Nicaragua, the Brothers Grim in Havana...it's not especially subtle, really. Nor is it clear to me why Uribe would pretend not to name a country when it's more than evident who he's referring to. The only thing I wanna know is...who's the recipient? (Sorry, I'm almost as ignorant of politics outside my own country as the above-rebuked gringos.) |
gringomedellim
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... @Quico who are you talking about? you are painting a rather wide brus with you sterotyping rant. |
tomtom33
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... Hey Quico, is Colombia part of the world? This particular article was about foreign influence in the Colombian elections. I didn't realize that Hitler was from the US. Try taking that big chip off your shoulder. |
Quico
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... ok, ok...my post yesterday was a bit overcaffeinated, I admit. Crispancho's comment sent me over the edge. I still want to know...is the implication here that Venezuelan money is going to Petro, or to someone else? |
Adriaan
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... LOL The implication is that money from somewhere is going to someone. So now you're supposed to just go fill in the blanks with the usual suspects and you have a nice conspiracy theory that affects those further away from Uribe more than those close to him. It's like a political cluster bomb. Avoiding to name the names is avoiding a slander lawsuit, while the accusation has the same effect. |
Quico
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... Oh, I see that Adriaan. But the political efficacy of such a tactic depends wholly on its surface level credibility, a surface level credibility it most certainly has because we have incontrovertible evidence that Chávez does indeed finance friendly candidates in elections throughout the hemisphere. We go back to the Maletinazo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletinazo - which is as cut and dry as evidence gets. If Chávez is sending suitcases full of cash to finance his buddies in far off in Argentina, why wouldn't he meddle in a neighboring country of incomparably greater strategic interest to him? AMLO, Humala, Cristina K., Danny O in Managua, Cowboy Man in Honduras...Chávez has a prontuario the length of my arm when it comes to meddling in the hemisphere's domestic politics. You think he's gonna grow a halo just when the time comes to deal with his biggest neighbor?! |
Adriaan
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... Hell no, but Uribe's made so many accusations like this over the past few years that he has very little credibility left that he actually is on to something. Remarks like this seem to be focused more on discrediting domestic political enemies than denouncing an actually happening illegal act. |
cococo
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... No smoke with out fire in my opinion. Lets face it two of our neighbours would love to see the FARC prevail and Colombia become a Marxist state. Failing that they are more than prepared to find other ways to gain political influence inside Colombia. |
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