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Cartoonists Matt Bors and Ted Rall are traveling through Afghanistan as I tap, chronicling what life is like on the ground without the constraint of a military embed or government spokesperson in tow. Check out Rall’s blog here and Matt’s here.
Further to my post of August 9th, the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that the proposed plan to extend US military operations throughout Colombia by sharing the Colombian military infrastructure was indeed illegal. Ex-President Alvaro Ulribe attempted to push it through without bothering to run it by lawyers, claiming it was just an extension of previous accords, but the court disagreed by 6 votes to 3. While that jettisons the 2009 accord’s plans, it doesn’t affect previous accords for now – until new President Santos takes the accords to Congress.
