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The U.S. press' love affair with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, March 8, 2007.

Colombia and the willfully manipulated media

Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos discusses the recent hostage rescue and how the government is regaining its territory, Friday, July 25, 2008, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Why does a straight-up crackpot write opinion columns for the second-largest circulation newspaper in the country?

The Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady

By Garry Leech

Colombia Journal

July 14, 2008

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Sizing up Uribe: A Canadian daily goes where no U.S. paper dares to tread

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe gestures during a speech at the Army School in Bogota June 1, 2006. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez (COLOMBIA)

By Misha Glenny

Toronto Globe & Mail

July 14, 2008

Alvaro Uribe: Still a thug

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe (front) is welcomed by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez at Paraguana refinery complex near Punto Fijo in Venezuela's northern state of Falcon July 11, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA)

Latin America Experts Condemn U.S. Detention and Search of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, speaks to Colombia's senator Piedad Cordoba after a news conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

What the U.S. press won´t tell you: There is evidence suggesting that the FARC unit that held Ingrid Betancourt was bribed

Throughout Latin America and Europe, Colombia´s tale of the James Bond style rescue of the hostages is being called into question

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