Another day, another journalist murdered in Colombia. Another story guaranteed to be unreported up North, but if some hack in Venezuela gets stared at in a nasty way you can bet that gets splashed over the front pages.
Mexicans are fat because of NAFTA? That's the theory proposed by Structurally Maladjusted and it must be true cos they got the stats to prove it.....TO PROVE IT I SAY!
Paraguay bans smoking in all enclosed public areas. This is good.
The US Defense dude Robert Gates is in Peru and Colombia this week. Here's what he has to say about Peru (and in true milico style getting the "compare it to Chavez" moneyline in).
So no bones there. But the best one is when he addresses Venezuela and Bolivia, with one of the finest mirror reflections I've seen this year:
Mexicans are fat because of NAFTA? That's the theory proposed by Structurally Maladjusted and it must be true cos they got the stats to prove it.....TO PROVE IT I SAY!
Paraguay bans smoking in all enclosed public areas. This is good.
The US Defense dude Robert Gates is in Peru and Colombia this week. Here's what he has to say about Peru (and in true milico style getting the "compare it to Chavez" moneyline in).
“Peru has been a constructive influence, in our view, in South America in terms to trying to counter some of the propaganda and other things from Venezuela and in trying to represent what we are trying to do in a straightforward manner,” Gates said. “Peru has been a good friend to the United States.”
So no bones there. But the best one is when he addresses Venezuela and Bolivia, with one of the finest mirror reflections I've seen this year:
“I think there is an element of distracting their own populations from the difficulties that they have by … trying to strut around the world stage,” Gates said.Gotts luv them US grunts: Destroy that village in order to save it, dudes.