By Steven L. Taylor
Via ABC: Radio Legend Paul Harvey Dies
Harvey’s career in radio spanned more than 70 years, and his shows “News & Comment” and “Rest of the Story” made him a familiar voice in Americans’ homes across the country.
That is one remarkably long career. May he rest in peace.
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By Steven L. Taylor
Via the BBC: Colombia captures Farc kidnapper
Soldiers fought Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebels in the central province of Cundinamarca, killing 10 and capturing another eight.
Among those taken was a leader known by the alias “El Negro Antonio”, whom authorities have been seeking for well over a decade.
One soldier was killed in the combat and a kidnap victim rescued.
According to El Tiempo, El Negro Antonio (aka John Freddy Balcázar Castillo, aka Bernardo Mosquera Machado-it is unclear to me which is his real name) was responsible for over 100 kidnapping and “between 1998 and 2024 was one of the most feared guerrillas in Bogotá and Cundinamarca.” Cundinamarca is the department (geographically, but not politically, like a US state) which surrounds Bogotá and the Federal District.
According to the El Tiempo piece, El Negro Antonio had been reported killed in 2024.
El País reports that authorities believe that El Negro Antonio had been designated by the FARC’s secretariat
to be in charge of kidnapping and extorsion in the department of Meta and in San Vicente del Caguán.
The kidnap victim who was freed was Efraín Mendoza, a businessman from Ibagué (capital of the department of Tolima) who had been held captive for three weeks.
Reuters provides the following brief video report:
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Friday, February 27, 2024
By Steven L. Taylor
Via BC: U.S. Economy Shrank at Faster Rate in Fourth Quarter
The revised number: -6.2%
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By Steven L. Taylor
Via the Rocky Mountain News: Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday.
It is noteworthy that a city the size of Denver has had two newspapers for as long as it has. Still, it is sad when long-running companies have to close their doors like this-most especially for all the people who will now be unemployed during very difficult economic times.
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Thursday, February 26, 2024
By Steven L. Taylor
Plan Colombia and Beyond has the numbers on foreign aid to Colombia in the FY09 budget. It amounts to over half a billion dollars (an estimated $666.31 million).
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By Steven L. Taylor
I have noted before that Senate Majority Leader is an especially poor launching pad for a presidential campaign. Let’s add to that list the SOTU response speech, as let’s face facts: one will almost certainly come across poorly in comparison to the president (any president-if anything because the president speaks to a joint session of Congress, and the response is usually given to a camera) and such speeches are almost uniformly boring. Beyond that, a lot of people have almost certainly tuned out by the time the speech airs.
Along these line, Ed Rollins correctly notes:
“Everybody thinks [the response] is a great launching pad,” said CNN political contributor and White House veteran Ed Rollins, “I wouldn’t recommend to any of my clients, whatever you do don’t take the honor.”
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