George “I call him Gonzo” Bush has an unexpected opportunity to spend quality time with part-time psychic and full-time refugee Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, now spending time with his family somewhere in the US.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 22 – On a visit to the White House last year, President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada told President Bush that he would push ahead with a plan to eradicate coca but that he needed more money to ease the impact on farmers.
Otherwise, the Bolivian president’s advisers recalled him as saying, “I may be back here in a year, this time seeking political asylum.”
Mr. Bush was amused, Bolivian officials recounted, told his visitor that all heads of state had tough problems and wished him good luck.
Now Mr. Sanchez de Lozada, Washington’s most stalwart ally in South America, is living in exile in the United States after being toppled last week by a popular uprising, a potentially crippling blow to Washington’s anti-drug policy in the Andean region.
One has to question the administration’s commitment to combatting the drug trade. Afghanistan is set for another near-record opium harvest, a resurgent Shining Path, the Maoist guerilla group, is operating in Peru’s coca territories and now, Brazil’s coca growers association seems to have become the leading power broker in that country. I guess now that Republicans are getting all the sex and drugs, priorities have shifted. I’m thinking that were I on Washington’s doodoo list, I’d be looking to abandon the nuclear trail and concentrate on producing Viagra and OxyContin knockoffs.
Bolivian Prez: I like Bush so much, I moved to America.
George “I call him Gonzo” Bush has an unexpected opportunity to spend quality time with part-time psychic and full-time refugee Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, now spending time with his family somewhere in the US.
One has to question the administration’s commitment to combatting the drug trade. Afghanistan is set for another near-record opium harvest, a resurgent Shining Path, the Maoist guerilla group, is operating in Peru’s coca territories and now, Brazil’s coca growers association seems to have become the leading power broker in that country. I guess now that Republicans are getting all the sex and drugs, priorities have shifted. I’m thinking that were I on Washington’s doodoo list, I’d be looking to abandon the nuclear trail and concentrate on producing Viagra and OxyContin knockoffs.