Word: scandalize
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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...
...Congress must also consider whether to ratify a free trade agreement signed between the Bush Administration and the Colombian government last year. Defense Minister Santos recently returned from a trip to Washington, London and Brussels where he presented Plan Colombia II. The the para-politica scandal, as it has come to be known, may still mean it will be a hard sell, said Santos, but the foreign minister's resignation "makes my job a bit easier...
...scandal is considered the most serious to hit drug- and violence-torn Colombia in more than a decade. It has been building for months since the Supreme Court opened investigations into allegations of close-knit relations between politicians and the paramilitary groups that have long controlled different areas of the country through murder and intimidation. So far eight federal lawmakers are behind bars awaiting prosecution. One senator, whose arrest warrant was issued along with Sen. Araujo's, is at large and believed to be in Germany. And even as the foreign minister was announcing her resignation, the Supreme Court, which...
...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...