Reply #6: INTERVIEW-Political left awakens in Colombia with Lucho [View All]

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Uh oh, Uncle Sam won't like this--another elected official in Latin America speaking out on behalf of the poor. Also, Garzon wants an administration modeled after Lula's.

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... "I think Colombian society has changed ... People are tired of so much aggression, so much polarization, so much killing," he added during an interview on Monday in his Bogota apartment building.

Colombian politics has long been bloody business, even before the guerrilla war began four decades ago.

And right-wing death squads have given Marxist rebels a good reason to keep fighting -- they've killed many of those who left the battlefield to pursue public office.

An outlawed militia chief, Carlos Castano, bragged in his memoirs about masterminding the assassination of Carlos Pizarro, who was shot aboard a commercial airplane while running for president in 1990.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/10/27/rtr1124344.html