More on the unravelling of the US-Colombia military base deal

Further to our post yesterday, Bina has translated today's developments out of Colombia's Constitutional Court.

La W Radio reports that the Constitutional Court of Colombia will declare 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 continues here

As a slight aside, here's a map presented by AFP newswire that shows the positions and uses of the seven bases that the US wants to set up in Colombia.


Now is it just me, or perhaps it's just lucky typesetting, but do you think all them there boats, planes and armed soldiers are pointing in the same direction out of sheer coincidence too?

Wowsers! Colombia's airbase agreement with the USA may about to be voted inconstitutional by Colombia

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 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.

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? Here's a message for you, my anonymous friend: