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Mujica to address UN assembly on 28 September; meeting with several Latam presidents
Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica will be attending the UN 68th General Assembly on the last week of September in New York, where he is scheduled to meet with several of his Latinamerica peers and the Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWill the old, dishevelled commie manage to transform himself into a correctly dressed statesman? Will he be able to tread the boards of the UN stage and talk in meaningful prose or the homely gibberish that only he seems to understand?
Sep 18th, 2013 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0OF COURSE HE WON’T.
He WILL of course join the elite, together with the Cowpat, the coca expert, of being a statesman in the drug dealing mob, all perfectly legal now in Uruguay.
AND he will still be able to lick the arse of TMBOA after her day in the shopping malls. OH, I forgot, the stores bring the tasteless tat that she wears over to her apartment, even better.
Roll on Vasquez, La Tronca may have pegged it by then.
Mujica was, infamously, a member of the Tupamaros armed terrorists. Learning from his experience, he has been a coward ever since. Being a farmer, this is “natural”. His wife cultivates chrysanthemums on their farm. Although it's difficult to see how a senator and President can make a living out of such an occupation. How much is argieland paying? Shall we wait to see what he reads out? Then we can figure out who wrote it?
Sep 18th, 2013 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not terrorists conq, only in the USA the Tupamaros are considered terrorists.
Sep 18th, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nowhere in Europe.
I know quite a few Tupas living in England...
;)
@ 3 Stevie
Sep 18th, 2013 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have just read a fascinating study written by the Latin American Studies Organisation entitled “The Tupamaros of Uruguay”. Shown below is the summary:
“By mid-1973 all left-wing political activity had been suppressed and the national legislature indefinitely dissolved. Uruguay, once the most tolerant and democratic country in South America had become another garrison state. This was the only permanent legacy of the Tupamaros, although they had advanced further and offered a more serious challenge to established power than any other urban guerrilla movement.”
Kidnaps, extortion, killings, bank robbery, gun shops robbed, etc, etc. looks like the IRA Lite to me. Could have been stopped very early on if the stupid government had handled it with the army straight away, or the British SAS had been called in after the bastards kidnapped the the British ambassador to Uruguay in1971.
Does this sound familiar?:
“Uruguay in the 1960¹s was distinct among other South American counties for its affluence and socio-political stability. Economic prosperity had fostered the growth of a large middle class and a stable welfare-state government that allowed a wider degree of democratic and civil freedoms larger than any other South American government......A slump in the demand for wool and meat, Uruguay¹s two principal exports, after the Korean War brought mass unemployment, inflation, and a steep drop in the standard of living. The social tensions this produced, along with the corruption of the overblown state bureaucracy (one in five working Uruguayans was employed by the federal government in some fashion)”
I would imagine the number is now 2 in 5 or even 5 in 10 work for the “overblown government”.
Perhaps you will come back and be the new “Raul Sendic” the founder of the Tupos who, like TMBOA practised as a lawyer without a degree. I bet you really fancy that.
BTW, it's no good saying there are Tupos in the UK. We have Islamist bastards as well.
Isnt Chrstina a prostitute like Evita?
Sep 18th, 2013 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If he mentions the falklands- ya know CFK has got to him..lol
Sep 18th, 2013 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Sep 18th, 2013 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If he mentions 'the Malvinas' perhaps we should query it and ask if he's on about the Maldives?
ha ha .
Sep 18th, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 brasherboot
Sep 18th, 2013 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As all good Peronista females are, certainly as far as prostituting their intellect on the altar of Perons' stupidity and fascist dictates go.
But hey! No horns on the PM, that would be disrespectful...
Sep 18th, 2013 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chris you were not here in this country in th 70s. I was and lived it. Army coup never again. Those bastards were as corrupt as the politicos who they suplanted and also morally corrupt, torturing folk for thier political views most of which I didnt agree with
Sep 21st, 2013 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps you should read a bit of the other story. Geoffrey Jackson was kidnapped and held in a “peoples prison” Sometime later 106 Tupamaros escaped from the Puntas Carretas prison by a tunnel and shortly after Jackson was released from his captivity. Smell an MI6 rat? I did
@ 11 redp0ll
Sep 21st, 2013 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You may well be correct about MI6; it certainly has all the hallmarks of them.
But the real problem was the stupid simplicity of Sendic which was trumped by that of the government.
But I cannot be critical, in reality the British government had the chance around the same time to deal once and for all with the IRA, known around Birmingham and the Yank Brigade for obvious financial reasons.
There were only 526 (from memory) of them according to the intelligence services (yes, I know) and the SAS wanted to go in and kill the lot of them. The government dithered and eventually said no: the rest is history. Many, many deaths resulted from the actions of this bunch of cowards acting out the dreams of Irish Americans safely ensconced in New York. It was all a bit different when 9/11 happened though.
There are times, like with the IRA, when bad things have to be done for good of the rest of us. Wilson failed us and Heath was no better when he took over.
My Uruguayo friends were in their teens when the military were in charge and have told me what went on. Our Spanish Teacher had her father taken away over something trivial and they thought they would never see him again; fortunately they did but it took two weeks or so to happen. Terrible, and basically the Tupamaros must bear the majority of the blame.
On that issue I would agree and I do know as I worked in Ulster for a while. The moderates always are anathema to the hard men on both sides of the divide and end up in a coffin if they are lucky. Going back a while Michael Collins was murdered on the orders of that cowardly Cuban-American rat Eamon de Valera
Sep 21st, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes the SAS or the B Specials could have snuffed all the terrorists if they had orders to do so. Fortunately UK is a democracy where the armed forces are subject to Parliament. Unfortunately it doesnt always work like that. ACC John Stalker of the Manchester police was thoroughly stitched up when his enquiries got a bit too close to the truth
13 redp0ll
Sep 21st, 2013 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent analysis and it ended Stalkers career.
I think he may have believed that when he was asked to investigate things, they wanted him to investigate things! Big mistake.
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