Comments on: Ex-Colombian President Uribe’s arrival to SFS sparks protests

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[...] list included US officials, the world’s richest person Carlos Slim, Colombia’s former president-cum-human rights violator extraordinaire Alvaro Uribe, and Paul Romer – mastermind of the charter city [...]

By: HoyaLawya

HoyaLawya — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:50:30 +0000

These protestors are just the flip side to the Tea Party birthers. Just because you can footnote a few sentences according to bluebook rules, it doesn’t mean your argument should be considered with any weight. Frankly, I doubt I’m in the minority when I file everything from these protestors under W, for Whining.

Honestly, why is Mark Lance still at Georgetown? If this guy has his way, Georgetown would become a joke, lacking all credibility among peer institutions, alumni donors, and Fortune 500 employers. The board of directors needs to keep tabs on this guy (if not already) before the school gets seriously embarrassed.

Thank god most of these protesting whiners will either be jobless or dead ending with a gig at Barnes & Noble, after graduation. The rest become Mark Lance – oh joy.

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:28:51 +0000

Look, I know that you guys are all upset about Uribe’s “lack of respect for human rights”, but that doesn’t mean you guys have to protest his being there. I mean, I don’t like what Obama has done for the country, but if he were lecturing at my school, I’d go to the lectures and try to learn something. Even if you’re looking at everything he’s doing as wrong, then at least you’ll in your mind learn what you shouldn’t do. I’m a Colombian citizen, and I lived in Colombia before Uribe’s time, and I had to leave Colombia with my family because jobs were not available and it just wast safe anymore. We’re now looking to go back, because of all that Uribe has done for the country. I realize that some of the methods he used weren’t… perhaps the best he could have used. But who else is finding ways to erase FARC from society in a humane way. Maybe it’s because you haven’t had to live through what us Colombians had to go through, but what if Al Queda was residing in this country instead of in Afghanistan? What if the only way to get rid of Al Queda was to take farmers from the great plains out of their homes and situate them in bigger cities? That’s the problem with most of the people in this country. You judge the way others do things without considering all the facts as if you were in those people’s shoes. You may try to look at the good that it’s doing and the bad that it’s doing, but you’re not looking at it the way that someone living through it might see things. There’s no need for you to protest Uribe’s being on the Georgetown campus because he’s not there to make you guys into the “brainwashed pupils” you think all Colombians are.
On a side note, while I appreciate this Carlos guy’s efforts being on Uribe’s side, you don’t need to threaten people to get them to see things your way. That actually accomplishes the complete opposite.

By: david

david — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:50:20 +0000

Ask Uribe about his “health reform” that required people to use their retiring savings to pay for their health care, favoring private health care providers, luckily people gathered through facebook and protested in the cities; he wants to privatize everything in Colombia, instead of investing on better processes and technology for public companies. In Colombia, Union leaders and Community leaders are killed constantly (more than 40 this 2010 year); being a leader in Colombia is a risk; what about the “chuzadas”, where the opposition and the supreme court were illegally wired tapped; as a result, Uribe’s General Secretary, Bernardo Morenos won’t be able to run for public office for the next 18 years, and now they are investigating Uribe. “a lot worse than watergate”; for Uribe, all NGOs are members of the guerrilla (read the letter sent by the president of Human Rights Watch to President Obama, referring to Uribe and NGOs), and as a result, ONGs members are being targeted by paramilitars such as the “Black Eagles” former AUC members. Most Colombians think that by selling all natural resources “we” are in the path of development, but that goes against the principles of Sustainability, which declare that we should not undermine the opportunity for future generations to fulfill their needs. What will we we do when all fuels are sold? not even mentioning all the corruption that has been stealing all the royalties given by multinationals, which are not even monitored.
ask him about “Agro ingreso seguro”: agricultural subsides that were given to beauty queens, rich farmers that even divided their land to get more subsides and even narco-traffickers that have been extradited to the U.S., Uribes’ former Minister of Agriculture Andres Felipe Arias is being investigated for giving these subsides to people that already had resources,instead of giving them to poor farmers in need of irrigation and technology.
Someone wrote here that the murderers of the “false positives” (poor, young Colombians who were killed, and dressed in guerrilla uniforms, so the colombian armi could show “results” ) were investigated, well let me tell you that most of those killings are still in impunity,, I welcome all of you to read the facts.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:11:31 +0000

Yeah Calandria, when it comes to Colombia everyone knows the truth, right? But which truth I wonder, the one portrayed by Hollywood? I bet you haven’t even actually set foot in Colombia. But here are some FACTS during the Uribe presidency for those who think to know the situation:
Reduced murder in Colombia by 50%
Reduced kidnapping by almost 80%
Improved the economy of the nation
Extradited many drug lords to US to receive justice
Weaken terrorist groups like FARC (maybe this is why he is hated for very few people, who may be supporters of these groups)
Uribe achieved all in a country that was horrible violence for decades and no one could even go out of the main cities without being stopped by guerrillas.

By: Calandria

Calandria — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:16:32 +0000

This guy Carlos is the prime example of Uribe’s legacy; a brainwashed society, polarized and full of hate. As his master, Carlos is using the well known strategy of dictators: who dares to say the opposite, should be dead. This is just a small example of what people who have critical thinking has to endured every day in Colombia. Would you call that be free and safe? Yes, I know the situation in Colombia before and after Uribe, and the decomposition is generalized; he left as a much worst country (with the exception of the people being able to go to their cottages, protected by the army, and for some, by their private one). It is just a disgrace that a supposedly respectable University is willing to invite Uribe as a professor; they might as well invite Idi Amin to enrich the alumni with his knowledge.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:24:59 +0000

I just have one thing to say to all those who criticize Uribe without any knowledge of the problem that’s been going on in Colombia for over 40 years. That’s the way FARC, ELN, and other terrorist entities initiated! You stupid little brain people are eager to support human rights against the president, military, and nation that stands against the terrorist. Those groups have killed thousands of innocent people, farmers, children, and women. They don’t care who they are aiming at, can be a priest, politician, civilian, they just do it and enjoy doing it. You freaking terrorist can go to the jungle and join FARC so that the army can go and shoot you right in the middle of your eyes.

By: gtown.student

gtown.student — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:22:25 +0000

I don’t think this debate is about Uribe’s politics, it’s about his human rights record, pure and simple. Perhaps Colombia is safer, but for who, and at what cost? In many debates with Uribe supporters, I’ve been surprised to find that rather denying the facts (huge increase in extrajudicial executions, false positives, illegal wiretapping, the secret service passing hit lists to the paramilitaries, hiring paramilitaries to do the state’s dirty work), they say “he did what he had to do.” Really? If people want to defend his human rights abuses, saying that all of these crimes were justified, do so openly. And then we can talk about whether or not it was “worth it.” Anyway, check out http://www.uribe-georgetown.org.

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By: Digna

Digna — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:51:29 +0000

Fuera Uribe my priviledged white rear-end!

http://www.uribe-georgetown.org can kiss my butt.

For all those people who say that Uribe made Colombia safer… well, their right. He made it safer for the rich to enjoy their wealth, he made it much safer for foreign investment, he made it much safer for a few families to get wealthier.

That’s all very true.

We have to THANK Uribe for calling union workers as they really are – TERRORISTS – because my family in Mirador del Norte can now safely have workers who don’t complain about their stupid wages and working conditions, and will just pick the bananas so I can attend Georgetown.

As for all those students at the National University of Colombia, they should be happy that Uribe cut spending there and wanted to privatize it. The bathrooms were SO dirty there. Maybe now the poor students can get a job cleaning the bathrooms there. It’s not like a child of a campesino was destined to be much more in my country.

I think we need to thank Uribe for creating paramilitary units, because I for one would rather have the largest mass grave in Latin America in my country than have a bunch of lazy farmers complaining that they HAVE to grow coca because they don’t have roads and infrastructure to get their yucca and corn to the market.

Fuck, I prefer the cocaine I can sniff here at school to that boiled, nasty-ass Santanderean yucca.

Thank you Uribe