Category Archives: El NarcoPresidente

Gustavo Petro is out of a job

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Well, this sucks. Bogotá just lost a progressive and very popular mayor: The Procurator General’s Office (Public Ministry) of Colombia removed from office the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, on Monday, and prohibited him from performing all public duties for … Continue reading →

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Rob Ford’s crack pipe speaks

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Note: The following is a message I received from an anonymous source. I have been asked to share it my readers as a public service, in the hopes that it will serve as a warning to anyone thinking of sampling … Continue reading →

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Colombia’s disturbing virgin auctions

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Once again, Medellín makes the news for all the wrong reasons. Not only do they have a major problem with child sex trafficking from the city to mining camps in rural areas; as Rodrigo Martínez Arango reports in El Colombiano, … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Mr. Murder

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“Señor Matanza” (Mr. Murder), by Mano Negra (Black Hand) provides a hard look at reality in Colombia. Here are the lyrics: This city is property of Mr. Murder That jewel, that mine and that finca* and that sea, That paramilitary … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Petro defines progress

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“Progress isn’t an eight-lane highway. It’s children from Ciudad Bolívar playing classical music on violins.” –Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, Colombia. Is it just my imagination, or does the popular left-liberal mayor of Bogotá look like his counterpart from Calgary, … Continue reading →

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First same-sex civil marriage for Colombia!

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Say “hola” to Colombia’s first same-sex married couple: Carlos Hernando Rivera, and Gonzalo Ruíz Giraldo! On Wednesday, the 67th municipal judge of Bogotá, Carmen Lucía Rodríguez, declared a civil union for the first same-sex couple in Colombia, Carlos Rivera and … Continue reading →

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Q. Why was Henrique Capriles Radonski in Chile last week?

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Sabina Becker

A. Because that’s where the CIA bagman was to meet him for the hand-over. Why else? Journalist José Vicente Rangel informed of plans to assassinate the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, with the help of agents of the CIA in … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 29

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Oh, those charming Venezuelan oppos. So patriotic! So mindful of what’s best for their country, and never wanting anything less. So tell me, then…if they’re really all that (and a bag of chips), why are they doing…THIS? Faced with the … Continue reading →

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Rotten tomatoes for El Narco Uribe

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The History Channel (better known as the Hitler Channel) is infamous up here for its sensationalistic crap, which increasingly has less and less to do with actual history, and more and more to do with weird dudes claiming they were … Continue reading →

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Child prostitution: The scourge of Colombia’s mines

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Prostituted girls on the streets of Medellín, Colombia. The crime-pocked streets of that cocaine-infested city are not the only places in that land where children are sexually exploited and enslaved, as El Tiempo’s sub-editor, Jineth Bedoya Lima, reports: Mireya’s life … Continue reading →