Comments on: Bombing Venezuela’s Indians http://intercontinentalcry.org/bombing-venezuelas-indians/ Intercontinental Cry provides news, commentary, videos, and media alerts concerning the world's Indigenous population. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:22:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: marc vannisse http://intercontinentalcry.org/bombing-venezuelas-indians/#comment-1373 marc vannisse Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:49:08 +0000 http://pwgd.mayfirst.org/bombing-venezuelas-indians/#comment-1373 Having lived and worked in South-east Asia for 20 years,it is heartening to know that the spirit of natives need not be destroyed by the disastrous aspects of global monstrosities. In South America it seems there is a will to curb corrupution that appears (from reading this article) markedly stronger than what I have seen so far in this part of the world. I spent about one year in Colombia and Venezuela as a correspondent several decades ago,initially covering the elections that had brought back Rojas Pinilla. (I was present in his house the night of the election)In Bogota I got all the assistance I required from El Tiempo (free of any charge) including for the developing of my rolls of film and sending faxes to my agency in Europe. The friendships I experienced there were sincere, lacking as they did superficialities I have experienced elsewhere. I love South-America! So long - Marc Having lived and worked in South-east Asia for 20 years,it is heartening to know that the spirit of natives need not be destroyed by the disastrous aspects of global monstrosities. In South America it seems there is a will to curb corrupution that appears (from reading this article) markedly stronger than what I have seen so far in this part of the world.
I spent about one year in Colombia and Venezuela as a correspondent several decades ago,initially covering the elections that had brought back Rojas Pinilla. (I was present in his house the night of the election)In Bogota I got all the assistance I required from El Tiempo (free of any charge) including for the developing of my rolls of film and sending faxes to my agency in Europe.
The friendships I experienced there were sincere, lacking as they did superficialities I have experienced elsewhere.
I love South-America!
So long - Marc

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