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• [1] Natalia Casas from New York February 13, 2009 - 12:14PM

  Colombia, with an O, it's the proper name of the country, not Columbia. And like the author said, the country is full of contrasts, from the revels and druglords to the amazing people that go on about their lives, doing their best everyday. Honest people who build great companies and enterprises that export hundreds of goods and products to all over the world. There's soooo much more to Colombia than the Farc and cocaine. It's not a perfect country, but then again... which country is?

  
  
• [2] Steven from New York February 13, 2009 - 12:18PM

  Can your guest comment on Colombian president Alvaro Uribe's ties to right-wing death squads, and his cosy relationship with US conservatives? (He was recently awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush.)

  
  
• [3] Javier from Denver February 13, 2009 - 12:19PM

  Thanks for the O. Much better!

  
  
• [4] Jeff from Brooklyn February 13, 2009 - 12:21PM

  The FARC might not kill foreign journalists but your take on their 'money' or 'chip' analysis is wrong. What about the 3 Americans (2 from New York) Indigenous Rights workers all who were brutally murdered by the FARC in 1997.

  I'm speaking of the beautiful

  Ingrid Washinawatok

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Washinawatok

  Terrence Frietas

  and Hawaiian Lahe’ena’e Gay

  
  
• [5] Henry Mayorga from New york February 13, 2009 - 12:27PM

  Cocaine production is a full cycle market. It requires base materials that are only produced by petrochemical companies in the US and Europe, transportation routes, and banking systems to move the profits around the world. There is huge demand side to this market that exist in the US and Europe. To blame and simply send money attacking farmers that "produce" coca leaves is similar to the capture of Noriega by Bush and the announced end and victory on the "war on Drugs". Now the commingling of Cocaine + Farc + Colombia = terrorism is carte blanche to attack innocent people...

  
  
• [6] carlos from new jersey February 13, 2009 - 12:31PM

  while mrleech is familiar with colombia, I find him very biased. Could some one ask him about the 11 senators who where killed by the farc. Also, could you ask him about the 27 awac indian they just killed south of cali.....

  
  
• [7] Ricardo Cardenas from Chicago February 13, 2009 - 12:37PM

  I am sure Mr. Leech will be labeled as a promoter of the FARC in the US.by the mainstream media in Colombia.

  
  
• [8] Georgia Wever from Manhattan February 13, 2009 - 12:41PM

  FARC lost my sympathy when they killed Ingrid Washinawatok decades ago, when she was in Colombia assisting indigenous people

  to protect their land from clearing. A native person from the US, she was unarmed.

  Appeals to FARC from progressive organizations in the US were unheeded.

  Not that I support the government of Colombia. I wish there were a better alternative.

  
  
• [9] Alex from NYC, EV (hope soon to be in Brooklyn) February 13, 2009 - 01:52PM

  #5. dead on!

  
  
• [10] hjs from 11211 February 13, 2009 - 02:06PM

  by the way who is buying the drugs?

  oh right we are.

  colObia just another 3rd world nation we abuse, what's new?

  blood on YOUR hands