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...here, they will," Rials told TIME. The institution points out that Argentina was slated to enroll only 12 students in 2006 and Uruguay none, and that enrollment, at 1,100 troops, is higher than at the school's founding. Indeed, until the opponents can convince strong U.S. allies like Colombia, which alone sends around 250 troops a year, its impact will be diminished. Still, SOA Watch contends the country withdrawals have hit harder than the school wants to admit and claims there are no more than 670 currently training at Fort Benning...
...makes us care by means of the detail that he lavishes on the drama,” reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times. In recent years, McClintick’s investigative interests have led him to scandals across the globe, from drug trafficking in Colombia to bank bribery in France.“You look for stories that transcend their setting,” McClintick says. “People want to read about real people who are in difficult situations that they can identify with....You can really see human nature at work, both...
...other networks have not jumped into the telenovela's arms quite as eagerly. ABC is hedging its bets, developing a remake of a telenovela from Colombia called Yo Soy Betty, la Fea (I Am Betty, the Ugly One) that transformed itself into a global hit. Local versions of Betty's ugly-duckling story won huge audiences in Germany, India and Russia, but ABC will air it as a once-a-week prime-time comedy. As the network responsible for Desperate Housewives, the closest thing to a network telenovela today, ABC has a good shot at creating a successful hybrid...
...invested a great deal of money in Uribe, bankrolling his fight against the booming drug trade that funds Colombia's civil war. Even so, violence does still rage in large parts of the countryside, where the government has little effective control. And critics say that in the zeal to crack down on guerrillas, many innocent civilians have been falsely jailed...
...best" in a country with Colombia's tortured history, however, is all relative. Under Uribe's tenure more than 30,000 rightist paramilitaries have been demobilized as part of an initiative that grants reduced sentences to militia members responsible for some of Colombia's most brutal crimes. But human rights groups, and even some of Uribe's supporters, have criticized the peace offer as too lenient, though Uribe has said he is willing to give the same treatment to the country's two leftist rebel groups...