Comments on: The Phantom Menace – El Diario column, a Latin American Journal http://marianyc.com/2010/01/05/the-phantom-menace-el-diario-column-a-latin-american-journal/ The world through the eyes of an "opinionated" New Yorker Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:51:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Why is our president bowing to the Miraflores Cartel? http://marianyc.com/2010/01/05/the-phantom-menace-el-diario-column-a-latin-american-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Why is our president bowing to the Miraflores Cartel? Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:21:41 +0000 http://marianyc.com/?p=775#comment-438 [...] down to the will of Hugo Chavez and his dictator friends, his narco friends? Don’t they know the truth behind the Miraflores Cartel? Don’t they have intelligence on what is really [...] [...] down to the will of Hugo Chavez and his dictator friends, his narco friends? Don’t they know the truth behind the Miraflores Cartel? Don’t they have intelligence on what is really [...]

]]> By: FreeMarketeros http://marianyc.com/2010/01/05/the-phantom-menace-el-diario-column-a-latin-american-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-436 FreeMarketeros Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:32:05 +0000 http://marianyc.com/?p=775#comment-436 Excellent piece. It'd be nice if the South and Central American communities in places like New York take a greater interest in such matters, and affirm their support for a strong economic and security partnership with the United States. Unfortunately, community news and the demands of family and work keep too many people too busy to be involved in politics. I have it on reliable information that Esmeraldas province in Ecuador is filled with FARC or FARC-like leftist guerilla, and that it is no longer safe for visitors to remain outdoors beginning in the early evening, for fear of kidnap or running into trouble. This is all while the Correa government knows, and it is a disgrace to the potentially excellent US-Ecuador partnership that could be. I've visited Ecuador twice and found the people to be friendly and supportive of friendly US relations - why, I wonder, must their government be sympathetic to destructive alliances that bring insecurity in Ecuador and throughout the Americas. "Yankee Empire," don't make me laugh...what is Correa hiding? Remind me, who funded his campaign and how did his daddy make his living again? Excellent piece. It’d be nice if the South and Central American communities in places like New York take a greater interest in such matters, and affirm their support for a strong economic and security partnership with the United States. Unfortunately, community news and the demands of family and work keep too many people too busy to be involved in politics.

I have it on reliable information that Esmeraldas province in Ecuador is filled with FARC or FARC-like leftist guerilla, and that it is no longer safe for visitors to remain outdoors beginning in the early evening, for fear of kidnap or running into trouble. This is all while the Correa government knows, and it is a disgrace to the potentially excellent US-Ecuador partnership that could be. I’ve visited Ecuador twice and found the people to be friendly and supportive of friendly US relations – why, I wonder, must their government be sympathetic to destructive alliances that bring insecurity in Ecuador and throughout the Americas. “Yankee Empire,” don’t make me laugh…what is Correa hiding? Remind me, who funded his campaign and how did his daddy make his living again?

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