Word: colombianization
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...threatening smaller Latin nations, which need U.S. aid and access to its $10.5 trillion market. The U.S. denies that; but when the hemisphere gathered in Trinidad and Tobago last month for a pre-Miami meeting, at least five Latin countries had dropped out of Brazil's coalition; Colombian Commerce Minister Jorge Humberto Botero said the G-22 "ceases to be a useful tool for our country." The U.S. declared that Brazil's stance on the ftaa was "isolated." Brazil's leaders scoff at this. "The [U.S.] misrepresentation here is that Brazil and Mercosur don't want to negotiate," says Amorim...
...Billion Face value of suspect U.S. bonds seized during a bust in London on a Colombian drug cartel...
Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions. They allege that nine Coca-Cola bottling employees have been murdered over the past 12 years. Union leaders accuse bosses of allowing paramilitaries access to the plants...
...COLOMBIA Soft Drink, Hard Times Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions...
...where the patients question, 'Did I do the right thing?' but they're groggy and on painkillers. Then the bandages come off, and they're transformed. That's not the truth." Nip/Tuck is a heightened version of the truth (there's an outlandish plot in the pilot involving a Colombian druglord), and it can be heavy-handed. But the show nicely complicates its morality--the "bad-guy" doctor is charming and perceptive, while the "good guy" is a clueless father and husband--and it's a timely, unsparing psychological look at, well, the psychology of looks. "All I want...