Jun 172008
I’m off to La Paz, Bolivia in a few hours to participate in a conference on regional security. I hope to post from there, but it is unlikely that anything new will appear on the blog before Thursday. Thanks for your patience.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Adam, just installed latest version of Firefox, firefox 3.0. News clips and calendar overlapping left hand messages side.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Found bug in your css
#left-col {style.css (line 373)
float:left;
margin-top:11px;
width:625px;
}
Just take off the width:625px line, or adjust as desired.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Thanks Jaime, it was that and a couple of other things (my love-hate relationship with CSS continues). I just got it looking ok on my phone and laptop here @ the airport. Hope it looks OK in firefox 3.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Adam, OK in Firefox3.0 but Internet explorer 6 went nuts, the right floated elements went down under
June 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=112693
Cual le hizo mas dano a Colombia, Tirofijo o Pablo Escobar?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Supuestamente murio otro secretario de las FARC en la frontera con Venezuela… nos es confirmado pero lo esta reportando EL TIEMPO.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Travel safely as always, Adam.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
http://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/2008-06-18/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-4309083.html
negative on the death of another FARC secretariat… turned out to be someone else.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Safe travels. I just missed you in La Paz by a couple days. The diplomatic situation between the US and Bolivia will surely be interesting.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
For the first time in over a month the columns aren’t overlapping. Thanks Adam and Jaime for fixing that.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s coca crop — the basis for cocaine — grew by 27 percent last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase “a surprise and a shock” given major U.S.-funded eradication efforts.
“surprise and shock”… cynical
“given major U.S.-funded eradication efforts.” oh you mean the good old boys (DynCorp etc) benefiting from their scourge on humanity, the (drumroll) “War on Drugs”
June 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/How_to_train_death_squads_and_quash_revolutions_from_San_Salvador_to_Iraq
Some of you will like this… The site also has a lot of interesting things on Colombia…
June 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for fixing the blog. It looks superb on safari 3.1.1!!!
June 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
maremoto: The full report is available as well.
http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Andean_report_2008.pdf
Personally though, I think that even when the figures showed decreasing cultivation (actual or perceived, since there are yet more methodological changes being added to the mix, making direct comparisons with previous data of limited use), the result was and continues to still be the same: this isn’t working.
Chris: The site is certainly interesting, and so is the document, but I’d rather read it all first.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
For what it’s worth, I’d just like to call attention to the predicament which the concejales en Carmen del Rio (near Cartagena) are facing.
The concejales are facing renewed death threats from an Aguilas Negras group and El Tiempo ran a small article on it but left out a very important part of the story.
If you read the small local paper (El Heraldo) you get the rest of the story: the concejales rejected the mayor’s Development Plan and the mayor is furious with them–to the point where there is no communication between the two offices and the concejales are requesting that the mayor be subjected to a psychological examination.
The tone of the concejales, as portrayed in El Heraldo, is moderate and reserved. Apparently they rejected the mayor’s Development Plan because it was truly pathetic and set forth no serious plan for the community, many of whom are living in tents along the side of a river bank that is gradually crumbling into the river.
I admit I’m reading between the lines but I think it’s fairly evident that the mayor’s plan was another case of a corrupt mayor going through the bureaucratic motions to get funds that the mayor and his buddies would then graft, and I think it is fair to conclude that he is behind this new round of death threats coming from the Aguilas Negras.
Think what you will, just wanted to call attention to that situation, which is reaching a crisis point.