Posted on August 10, 2008 by Colin Brayton
El Clarín (Argentina) presents a newsreel of campaign advertising from the Bolivian referendum being held today.
It manages not to actually source any of the material, which it has apparently just sucked down off of YouTube and slapped together, so it is hard to know what you are looking at. El Clarín is not a very [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by Colin Brayton
“These are facts”: Mainardi on the fictitious bribe-stuffed bank accounts of government officials, on Globo’s “The Brazilian David Letterman” show. Veja preferred not to conclude that the dossier on the alleged existence of these accounts was a gabbling forgery. It’s all a matter of postmodern biblical hermeneutics and Nietzschean-Sartrean leaps of faith with these gabbling [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by Colin Brayton
“La Fiscalía se quedó a mitad de camino”: El Espectador (Colombia) runs a lengthy interview with a Supreme Court justice who is presiding over the parapolitics case there.
When Sen. Mario Uribe (President Uribe’s cousin) was charged with involvement in “parapolitics” — “We, the AUC, will give you money for your campaign and threaten to kill [...]
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