Uribe, the US's Latin American Lap Dog "Wins"

[From Washington Post - Spin anyone?]
Law-and-order President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in a landslide Sunday in Colombia's most peaceful elections in more than a decade, strengthening the U.S. ally's mandate to crack down on armed groups and drug traffickers.
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[From Council on Foreign Relations]
...Uribe's opponents to claim the president is overly beholden to American interests: "Colombia has many products to sell, but the country is not for sale" (Pravda)
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[From politicalcrossroads.blogspot.com]

Another day, yet another example of biased BBC journalism. In the forthcoming Colombian general elections, right of centre candidate and current President, Alvaro Uribe is set to buck the trend of Latin American countries electing leftwing socialist leaders. However, despite the fact that Mr Uribe is expected to win 57% of the vote and has rarely dropped below a 70% popularity rating in the past 4 years, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation strangely managed to find six out of six people who I very much doubt will be voting for Mr Uribe. These include a former paramilitary, a former left-wing rebel, a medical student, a journalist, an extremely critical former hostage and a supposedly displaced person.

Typically the BBC go on opinions rather than facts, especially if you contrast the BBC article with a Times newspaper article on the same day. The Times article details why the right lead in popularity by a substantial margin – rather than the biased BBC, “we’re not going to tell you what’s really going on” approach.

Click here to see the BBC online article and here to see the Times online piece.

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And finally, Time Magazine's story called "Washington's Best Friend in Latin America"