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...because early next month Uribe is expecting a visit from President Bush - who considers the conservative Uribe one of his own few allies in Latin America, and whose administration lists Colombia's right-wing paras as drug-trafficking terrorists - but also because one of the senators accused in the scandal was the brother of Colombia's foreign minister...
...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...
...people a steely gaze and telling it like it is, whether as James Bond’s cantankerous boss in “Casino Royale” or as the “battle axe” of a schoolteacher she plays in “Notes on a Scandal,” there will always be films worth seeing. Not that there aren’t other reasons to see “Notes on a Scandal.” Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy (whom viewers might remember from “The Constant Gardener”) perform...
...light of the infamous Danish caricature crisis of 2005, one would expect cartooning to be a dicey practice in the Middle East. The scandal, which provoked reprinting and reprisal the world over, and which—according to some reports—led to more than 100 deaths, satirized the prophet Muhammed and broached the contentious permissibility of religious depiction by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. But recently, creative entrepreneurs in the Middle East have sought to recast cartoon strips as productive instruments of cultural change.Combining Western looks—think Spider-Man and Batman—with regional...
...tantrum after a coach replaced him in an important UEFA Champions League qualification match. He picked up his brother and a bottle of Jack Daniels and disappeared for a week, leaving reporters to speculate about his whereabouts. (He had retreated to the seaside resort of Varna.) "It was a scandal," he says...