One of my favorite blogs is BoRev.Net: Dispatches from the Bolivarian Revolution. In addition to a great perspective, the writing nearly always gets me chuckling. Here's an excerpt from Condi's trip to the OAS meeting in Panama:
"...Forget extraordinary rendition and phone taps and compromising covert operatives. That Watergate-era shit only used to be illegal and un-American and treasonous. These days, we now know, the real threat to Our Way of Life is not allowing big media corporations to overthrow governments or something.Since Rice is a super-humungo proponent of open and balanced discussion, it must have killed her to have to unceremoniously storm out the door three nanoseconds after her big speech ended, unable to benefit from the precious "other side" of the discussion she cherishes so deeply.
And just like a little fifth-grade me, those precocious little Latins started going all insubordinate behind her back, refusing to pretend that the RCTV flap was a free speech issue or boot Venezuela from the human rights commission per Condi's demands.
Blasphemously, all this took place in Panama, where just 25 years ago the country's rebellious lefty President was excommunicated, permanent-like , from life with the help of the CIA. The kids today Just. Won't. Learn."
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i read about the OAS thing at al jazeera and i laughed at this part:
"She was trying to maintain her calm, but already from the beginning you could tell she was a little annoyed," Chavez said.
"I know her very well and I know when she's annoyed ... surely because they couldn't find anyone to do their work, their dirty work, and she had to leave."
That is funny, and he's exactly right. I'm sure they tried to get one of the right-wing governments in Latin America (Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.) to do it, but even none of them would go for it. So Condi had to show up and do her own dirty work...it's got a real 'Colin Powell at the UN' feel to it, doesn't it?
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