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...Ricardo, they are just trying to buy you off and keep you silent," said Maria Elena. "I don't think we should mess with them anymore...
...Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq in 2003-2004, has written a new memoir, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, an account of his life and his service in Iraq. Sanchez was a three-star general - and the military's senior Hispanic officer - when he led U.S. forces in the first year of the war. He was relieved of his command by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 following the revelations of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In 2005, Marine General Peter Pace, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty. From the book Wiser in Battle. Copyright ? 2008 by Ricardo S. Sanchez. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers...
Amidst those muddled Andean politics, some suggest a better hope for the Americans may be sitting inside U.S. jails. In 2004 and 2005, Colombia extradited to the U.S. two FARC leaders, Ricardo Palmera, a.k.a. Simon Trinidad, and Omaira Rojas, a.k.a. Sonia. Sonia was convicted last year on drug charges and given 17 years in prison; Trinidad, convicted for conspiracy in the Americans' capture, was sentenced to 60 years in January. The FARC has made the pair's release a condition for the U.S. hostages' freedom. The U.S. has designated the FARC a terrorist group and can't negotiate with...
...keynote speakers, whose speeches will be split up throughout the day, will include Martin M. Werner, the head of Goldman Sachs Latin America and former undersecretary of finance and public credit in the Mexican Treasury; former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; and former Honduran President Ricardo M. Joest. The conference, in which nearly 700 individuals have requested a spot, still has spots open for the general public. “We hope that audience members will gain a fresh understanding of where things stand in Latin America in terms of where the region is headed,” Martini...