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The New DU. Reply #4: Despite the Propaganda, I'm Staying Well Away from the Columbian Border
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Tue Jun-15-04 12:30 PM
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| 4. Despite the Propaganda, I'm Staying Well Away from the Columbian Border |
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I'm visiting Venezuela next month, and had planned on spending a couple of days in Puerto Ayacucho on the upper Orinoco, right across the river from Columbia. But after hearing of the cross-border raids, I decided it was unwise to go anywhere within a hundred miles of Columbia.
Columbia is a sad case -- what started as a legitimate rebellion over a disputed election has become bloody standoff. And FARC has devolved from the old romantic IRA fighting the British occupation to the modern discredited IRA blowing up innocent civilians. It's a direct result of the type of hard-line policies Uribe is pushing now with American support.
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