Shocker! Coca Production Up
Cross-posted from La Política Colombiana: Shockingly, the AP reports that the number of hectares of coca under cultivation has risen, despite the increased eradication effort: Colombia's president says White House survey shows 8 percent rise in coca Despite record drug eradication efforts, a White House survey found production of coca in Colombia rose for the third consecutive year in 2006, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 6, 2007 15:21
Colombia Releases FARC Prisoners–Inlcuding a Key FARC Leader
Cross-posted from La Política Colombiana: Via the BBC: Colombia releases top Farc rebel The Colombian government has released a jailed guerrilla leader in the hope he will encourage the rebels to release the 56 hostages they hold. Rodrigo Granda, known as the Farc rebel group's "foreign minister", was freed as the authorities prepare to release up to 200 guerrillas from ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 5, 2007 13:46
FARC Rejects Prisoner Release Move by Uribe
Cross-posted from La Política Colombiana: Via the BBC: Colombian rebels spurn jail deal Colombia's biggest rebel group insists it will not release any hostages even though the government has announced plans to free some 200 jailed rebels. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, said the gesture by President Alvaro Uribe was a "farce". A Farc statement said the government ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 4, 2007 09:45
Some Recommended Reading
To this point I have been fulfilling my guestblogging duties here at OTB by mostly cross-posting stuff from my blog, PoliBlog. So to remedy that to some degree, I thought that I would try to do a little true value-added blogging and recommend some blogs that are perhaps not well known to OTB readers. The following are blogs written by ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 3, 2007 14:57
The Continuing Turmoil in Venezuela
Cross-posted from PoliBlog: WaPo has a piece on the political fallout from the move by Hugo Chávez to take broadcast rights away from RCTV: Protests in Venezuela Reinvigorate Opposition. The piece notes a number of groups and governments which have protested the move:Spain's Socialist government, in a joint declaration with the United States, called Friday for Chávez to renew ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 2, 2007 12:27
PoliBlog Collective
Steven Taylor has create several spin-offs to PoliBlog: La Política Colombiana - "a tri-part combination of education on Colombian politics, academic analysis, and research storage." PoliBlog’s Deportes - the sports section. PoliSciFi - "News and musing on scifi TV, movies books and such." He joins a growing trend in the blogosphere with this subdivision although, as he notes, there has been some ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 14, 2006 15:53
Greetings
Greetings to the OTB audience. I know that some of you know who I am as James frequently links to my site and I comment here fairly regularly. Further, a number of you read my site as well. I know that not all of you know my work, as James' traffic out paces mine by a factor of over ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 10, 2006 10:46
Guest Bloggers
My wife and I are headed off for a few days R&R tomorrow morning and will be back Wednesday evening. I'll have Internet access and will likely post a little something but certainly not my usual volume. I've asked some folks to fill in while I'm away and they've graciously accepted. Steven Taylor, my former colleague at Troy, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 10, 2006 09:38
Re-primitivized Men and the Global Jihad
Mark Steyn notes the recent spate of discoveries of jihadi terrorist cells among natives of civilized countries: Writing about the collapse of nations such as Somalia, the Atlantic Monthly's Robert D. Kaplan referred to the "citizens" of such "states" as "re-primitivized man." When lifelong Torontonians are hot for decapitation, when Yorkshiremen born and bred and into fish 'n' chips and cricket ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 12, 2006 07:47
Pro-Life Nation
The NYT Magazine has a piece by Jack Hitt about El Salvador's strong criminalization of abortion that might as well have came straight from the NARAL propaganda factory. Mixed in with anecdotes about poor women stigmatized by unwanted pregnancies, we get this type of objective journalism: More than a dozen countries have liberalized their abortion laws in recent years, including South ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 9, 2006 09:37
