The 2nd largest recipient of US military aid, and its people must take to the streets to protest its paramilitaries and death squads (i.e., your US tax dollars at work.) They demonstrate against the US-backed government, pleading "We want democracy."

And Uribe got the smack down yesterday. Left to his own devices by his American handlers, he tried in vain to win an argument that was already lost. In the end he got up from his chair and shook the hand of Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president. Another loss for the empire....