-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> 0% Introductory APR! Instant Approval! Aria Visa - get yours today. http://click.egroups.com/1/7102/16/_/475667/_/969146033/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Today's Press Briefing September 16, 2000 Clinton Proposes $4.5 Billion "Plan Bolivia"... ...to Clean Up Damage Caused by $1.3 Billion Plan Colombia Today's Reports From: La Paz, Bolivia; Bogotá, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Quito, Ecuador; London, England; Tokyo, Japan; Washington, DC; and from somewhere in "Farclandia" ...from the frustrated libido of TIME correspondent Tim McGirk: http://www.narconews.com/pressbriefing.html Today's Summary: The Clinton administration and key members of the US Congress continue to break the promises they made when they convinced the wider Congress to support the $1.3 billion "Plan Colombia" military intervention. Clinton himself has proposed spending $4.5 billion dollars more to prevent the coca crops from returning to Bolivia and now uses this bribe money to buy off and consolidate the most repressive and undemocratic regime in Latin America, headed by the violent and authoritarian Hugo Banzer, because every other Américan nation has already rejected Plan Colombia. Meanwhile, the new US Ambassador to Colombia admitted to that nation's press that Plan Colombia's projection of eliminating the coca crops by the year 2005 is an impossible goal (the administration had assured Congress that the Plan would accomplish that goal in five years when wooing its support.) And now a SECOND US General has been installed in Colombia to join General Keith Huber: his name and other information appears in today's briefing. Across the globe, rejection of Plan Colombia is now being voiced in traditionally hawkish and US-allied nations from Great Britain to Japan. And this week's Yellow Journalism award goes to Tim McGirk of TIME magazine. salud y abrazo, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
