The Narcoterrorists' D.C. Allies By Daniel Raisbeck

In an editorial published in The Washington Post on May 10th, Robert Novak described Colombian President Alvaro Uribe´s latest visit to Washington as ¨catastrophic.¨ On May 3rd, President Uribe, who was reelected in 2006 for a second four-year term by 62 percent of voters, illustrated many of his administration´s achievements before a congressional committee in order to promote the approval of the free trade agreement between Colombia and the U.S, the future of which has been clouded in uncertainty since the Democrats´ victory in November´s elections. President Uribe referred to his policy of ¨Democratic Security,¨ a strategy that has ensured that millions of Colombians are once again able to use the country´s roads after they remained for years under the control of the FARC and other Marxist guerrillas, terrorists who would take advantage of the state´s absence in order to extort, to kill, to kidnap, to traffic narcotics. He referred to the peace process with the vicious right-wing paramilitary organizations, a procedure which, although problematic, has resulted in thousands of armed men surrendering their weapons and either returning to civilian life or serving prison sentences. He referred to Colombia´s unflinching alliance with the U.S in the war against drug-traffickers, a stern battle that is being waged with utmost courage by Colombia´s servicemen in the country´s ports, in its mountains, in its almost impenetrable jungles. All this, however, proved of little avail, for it seems the Democrats had made up their minds about Colombia and the trade agreement before the president could utter a word.

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