2 pensamientos en “Colombia prevé triplicar inversión en infraestructura”

1. Thanks Jeff / nice job. This Summit is perfect for Balkingpoints not just becuase it involves the nations of the hemisphere (except a locked-out Cuba ), but also becuase U.S. Media Inc doesn’t seem to know it happened.They went ape with the Secret Service scandal with the prostitutes in advance of the summit. It is a legit story, since it involves potential breach of presidential security if an agent were to be blackmailed by one of the sex workers. (Prostitution is legal in Cartagena).Other than that, U.S. Media covered none of the actual issues. Which happen to be large, and culminative this time to a turning point that has nobody else in this hemisphere in agreement with USA except Canada (led by Bush clone Steven Harper).First I want to clarify what one of the commentators in the video was harping on. , is not liberalism. It is a stupidly conceived misnomer that means laissez-faire trade and enterprise no government power over it. Golly, that always works out well Secondly the commentator (Greg Grandin of NYU) pins the entire drug-war mess south of the U.S., on Bill Clinton policies that only suppressed the transport of drugs not the production or demand. As if a president is able to do jack about the last two. Mr Grandin supposes Mr. Clinton would attack nations where drug producers are, and advocate legalization at home so that opponents can vilify him to the point of losing re-election, or paralyzing the rest of his agenda as president.And therein is the box Obama is in which, quite interestingly puts him now squarely at odds with most of our neighbors to the south. There isno way he is going anywhere near legalization of drugs while up for re-election. You can be 100% right, and 100% open to a recasting of your position that has you as the dope dealer for America.You’re not doing it as president. Even in your lame-duck 2nd term the capacity for vilification. risks you being rendered inert on the rest of what you want to get done, if it can sink your popularity into the 20 s. Your party starts abandoning you on other items, nobody takes you seriously as was the case at the end of the Bush years.That being said, some president is going to have to move the ball towards a new policy that changes the ridiculous dynamic of the present, where the illegal trade in the U.S. ignites one of the most profitable enterprises on earth, and creates cartels powerful enough to go to war with governments. It is a mess, and a failure.I think you’ll only do it in the U.S. this way;1) Get the hell off the backs of states which are moving toward legalization of marijuana. They are doing it for needed tax revenue, and prior had begun to legalize for medicinal use. The Obama admin has been a harasser, of states such as California moving towards a sane legal-marijuana policy. It has to get off that after he is re-elected.2) With that creeping change afoot and then complete in perhaps 15 years (legal in all states as alcohol is now), then you have a population more comfortable with the idea of a controlled legalization of cocaine & whatever else the cartels might produce like heroin.This is a different and much more problematic animal than legalizing marijuana. You could only make them available by prescription, registration, diluted dosages something like that. The idea will be to make them a controlled legal substance such as valium or codeine. Yes, it could still leave a black market, but one with the total dollars involved slashed to the point of gutting the cartels and their power. Which is what you have to get to, and what the hemisphere is now beginning to call for.

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   • Directly sharing your faith with the Colombians will be dlfcifuit unless you are fluent in Spanish and their culture. Our trips are most often Christian service trips where you witness indirectly through your actions instead of by directly telling them through your voice. Often the the best testimony, as an American Christian, is to give of your time and money to build/repair/teach/help those less fortunate in Colombia. By giving of your time and money to build a building, repair a school, or volunteer in a clinic, you’re showing Colombians the true meaning of Christianity putting others ahead of yourself. Even the lost are amazed that someone is willing to pay to come down and work and they start to ask questions. Often we have many of the workers start attending church after work crews have visited, not because of the direct sharing of the Gospel by word, but by putting it into action. We can have others come, RN, MD, etc, if possible we’d prefer to plan a trip with them separately and focus on medical for the entire trip. Due to the lack of interpreters, we usually try to keep our groups small and focused on one area. If you can find even 3-4 people of the medical field to come down, we can put together more than enough work to fill their time while they’re in Colombia! As far as travel: we have member pay $850 to cover costs in Colombia (any extra is used for the project) and each individual purchases their own airfare separately. We started doing this because we have people coming from all over the country and sometimes only certain airlines leave from certain areas. So we tell everyone to arrive on a specific date because all flights from the US arrive in Colombia within about an hour of each other. We also have every member raise $500 to help with the project costs, whether building, medical or other. So far in February we have 8-12 (we work with another missionary and I’m not positive how many are coming with him from 2-4). We can accommodate a few more people into this group. We do try to keep the groups small for planning/travel purposes. We also allow for church groups to come by themselves if they want to, so if you have enough people interested from your church you can plan a trip down whenever it works best for you, as long as we can plan to be in Colombia at that time (usually Feb-Aug is the best time).

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