'Politics In Colombia'

Politics In Colombia

03/17/08 03:13

The recent local elections for mayors, governors and other state and city legislators went super great. First in Colombia's history, their election got the lowest violence since they start voting their own officials. For the 86,449 candidates competing for 18,527 positions, 20 candidates lost their lives and 15 of them are in the hands of terrorist organizations. Link: Townhall.com::Hasta la vista, Colombia?::By John R. Thomson News Digest Blog Tags: • politics • government • violence • terrorist organization • - Permalink Previous (Newer) Post Next (Older) Post Comments Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So: If you have something to say that's not exactly a comment on this blog post, please post it on the Colombia Expat and Travel Blog Forum If you are just planning to spam... go away as all the comments are premoderated Have something to actually say about this blog post, please submit your comment here: Leave a comment: We welcome your comments on this post in the Colombia Expat and Travel Blog. That means a comment on this post, not something about some other topic. Name: (required) Email: (required, not published) Comment: Note: Your comment will be immediately submitted and you will have no opportunity to review to edit it. It is recommend that you register on Colombia Expat and Travel Blog and login so you can include full html (ie: links). We don't have a chapta because we think we're smarter than the spambots.