Reply #10: Your point is accurate, so sadly true. There are so many witnesses, living, and dead, to that truth. [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

I started noticing long ago that posters other than myself were definitely getting their articles on Latin American situations read in "Editorials, and other articles," but I truly don't know at what point they are pitched out. It has seemed to depend upon just which people were moderating, at times.

As for LBN, I would think any article on a Latin American country which ALSO involves the US often is allowed to stay, as long as it meets the requirements in being under 12 hours old, and a genuine news story. I have had a lot of stories bounced out of there immediately which DID meet the time requirement.

It appears also that it helps if the story touches upon something really large in the news, having attracted a large general audience, like the Chilean miners, etc.

Your question about the US acting as a positive, pro-human, pro-democratic force probably won't get a lot of answers if left standing. Certainly not when you remember Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice have made similar statements concerning how much respect or lack thereof they have for Latin Americans' elections of leftist leaders.

Just remember that Henry Kissinger is not particularly safe traveling just anywhere these days, that there are all kinds of people who want to see him tried as a human rights abuser, and he damned well knows it. (He should have known long ago what he should do with that Nobel Peace Prize.) (How many of us, back then, were aware the Nobel Prize people actually have a "tongue-in-cheek" gag prize they give to the world's most ridiculous choices? It's a miracle they can pull it off every time without cracking up.)