Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Did a Colombian Hostage Negotiator Play Both Sides? - TIME

An intimate and candid moment... not what you think, I swear!

For once, a fair and balanced analysis. It's a surprise to find something like this in Time Magazine since... well I know the american mainstream media, and like anybody else, it sees only what it wants to see.
Right magazine, right analysis (for once!)
This paragraph summarizes it all (and hides nothing). In spite of what all her allies said, Córdoba has a lot of 'splainin to do. She just can't play the victim when her inflammatory remarks is the kind of game she vilifies and denounces in her enemies. Not convinced? Is one thing when she interprets Uribe's press release as a full confession of ordering illegal wiretappings (it is not) and another pretty dangereous one when she says in the same press conference that the Venezuelan and Ecuadorian embassies were illegal wiretapped to. She is deliberately trying not only to involve presidents Correa and Chavez, but to derail any approach to these countries and the current Colombian presidency, too. Not bad for a plain "pacifist and feminist," as she prefers to describe herself.

"Piedad may have a certain ideological affinity with the FARC," García-Peña says. "But I'm convinced her dream is to win the Nobel Peace Prize, not to be a guerrilla commander."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2023051,00.html#ixzz11Y394Lgb
Left, er... right on.

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