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...Bush talks the game when it comes to building institutions. "The United States cares deeply about the human condition," Bush said at his Bogota press conference Sunday, "Much of our aid is aimed at helping people realize their God-given potential." Bush's budget request for Colombia in 2008, however, still places heavy emphasis on military aid to the country. Says Rieser, "It's virtually a Xerox of the previous year; it has nothing to reflect some of the changes that have occurred there." In Iraq, U.S. forces cleared and then abandoned by Fallujah, which was soon retaken by insurgents...
...scandal comes just as Colombia has launched a campaign to drum up some $12 billion of support from the U.S. and Europe to finance a sequel to Plan Colombia, a controversial strategy to fight leftist rebels and drug trafficking. Under the first Plan Colombia, Bogota received more than $4.5 billion in the past six years from the United States in mostly military aid. An additional $1 billion came from donations from European nations which supported social programs and alternative development schemes to wean farmers off growing drug crops like coca. But support for that aid in the Democrat-dominated...
...Echeverri and bassist/producer Hector Buitrago, mixes punk, surf guitar and ska with folky Colombian styles such as vallenato, a bouncy, accordion-heavy genre. And unlike her Latin pop cohorts, Echeverri eschewed make-up and belly-baring tank tops in favor of piercings and tattoos. When the band hit the Bogota rock scene in 1991, the establishment barely knew what to make of them...
...television journalist in Gaza City, Palestine; Yaping Jiang, executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Takashi Oshima, a reporter, for The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; Altin Raxhimi, a producer-editor for Top Channel T.V., and correspondent for Transitions Online, in Tirana, Albania; and Alice Tatah, a producer/presenter for Cameroon Radio and Television in Yaounde...
Munera uses irony and symbolism to convey specific ideas to his viewer. In “Circus Tent,” another photograph taken in the slums of Bogota, a small, dilapidated tent that reads “Bienvenido al Circo” in faded red letters gapes open, revealing the humble iron bed frame that someone calls home. Munera’s portrait titled, “Destiny Stone” shows a bright-eyed boy peering through a hole in a boulder...