Colombia Activist Flays US Rice

Condi Rice is as popular in Latin America as the Taliban is with the National Organization for Women!

Colombia Activist Flays US Rice

Piedad Cordoba

Bogota, Feb 19 (Prensa Latina) Colombian civil right advocate Piedad Cordoba urged US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to leave Latin American nations in peace because they are not willing to return to the colonial period.

"We are not willing to become an Iraq, much less to return to the period of the colony," Cordoba said about Rice´s request for supporting a strike against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

She assured that Latin America was ready to strengthen a great bloc for regional development and against the US-proposed alternative of poverty and plunder.

"They are (US) so shameless. They have done nothing but exploiting us and causing poverty; now they want us to join them against the only serious proposal of unity for progress," the civil right activist pointed out.

Cordoba said the US was more afraid of a developed and industrialized Latin America, with high levels of living conditions and capacity to compete with them, than of Chavez.

PRENSA LATINA