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March 11, 2002
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Dear Colleagues,
The results of yesterday's Congressional elections in Colombia are in.
Voters massively rejected the nation's two traditional political parties on
Sunday. When the new Congress takes office on July 20th both houses will
contain an absolute majority consisting of Senators and Representatives of
smaller independent parties.
The two largest vote-getters, Senator-elect Antonio Navarro and
Representative-elect Gustavo Petro, are former armed combatants in the M-19
guerrilla movement who favor a negotiated peace settlement with the rebels.
The daily El Espectador analyzed the former rebels' victory as "a rejection
by a large part of the popularion of the idea of 'frontal war' against
subversion that the electorate identifies with the figure of Alvaro Uribe."
President Andrés Pastrana's Conservative party shrunk to just 13 seats in
the 100 member Senate, and 21 seats in the 175 member House. The chief of
his party resigned in disgrace last night after the electoral drubbing.
The Liberal Party, which has backed Pastrana's recent declaration of war
against the rebels, suffered an even more massive loss: It lost 34 of its
House seats and 19 of its Senate seats.
For details on the election results, and analysis of the dishonest and
distorted report today by Associated Press reporter Jared Kotler, see:
http://www.narconews.com/
The only foreign press agency to so far report the results accurately is the
Spain-based EFE news agency, as quoted in our report this morning.
In sum, Colombian voters have rejected Plan Colombia, as they did in the
October 2000 gubernatorial races.
Again, we ask: Where Is The Press?
...from somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
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