{"id":396,"date":"2004-03-15T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=396"},"modified":"2004-03-15T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T21:51:18","slug":"colombia-old-dominos-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: Old Domino?s New Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presentdanger.org\">THE PRESENT DANGER<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 15, 2004<br \/>\nBy Conn Hallinan<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">There are moments in American foreign policy that run a d?j? vu chill down one?s spine. Just such a moment was the recent talk to a group of Cali businessmen by William Wood, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia. In his remarks, Wood endorsed efforts by the present government of President Alvaro Uribe to overturn that country?s constitution to permit himself a second term. ?The U.S. Constitution permits presidential re-elections,? Wood argued, ?that?s why we don?t see this proposal as anti-democratic.?<\/p>\n<p>Wood?s remark harks back to the dark old days when the U.S. routinely intervened in Latin America, overthrowing governments and constitutions from Guatemala to Brazil.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Conn Hallinan is a provost at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a lecturer in journalism, and an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus (online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpif.org\">www.fpif.org<\/a>). He can be contacted at connm@ucsc.edu. <\/p>\n<p>See complete new FPIF commentary online at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/commentary\/2004\/0403colombia.html\">http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/commentary\/2004\/0403colombia.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/000405.html\">dark<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/story.jsp?story=500711\">old<\/a> days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PRESENT DANGER March 15, 2004 By Conn Hallinan There are moments in American foreign policy that run a d?j? vu chill down one?s spine. Just such a moment was the recent talk to a group of Cali businessmen by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}