Sunday, July 06, 2008

Two Thoughts on Ingrid Betancourt

1) Very little of the media coverage has mentioned the fact that her politics are extremely far to the left. (An amusing tangent: her first campaign distributed condoms and used the slogan "corruption is the AIDS of our society - let's protect ourselves."

2) Doesn't the fact that the army commandos who rescued her posed as members of a fake NGO make the FARC much less likely to cooperate with NGOs in the future on humanitarian and other projects? Doesn't it make rebel groups all over the world less likely to trust NGOs for anything?