Transparency International, remember them? The Panamanian chapter is headed by Angelica Maytín who once refused to answer questions about Panama Canal Authority (ACP) corruption because she was suffering from a conflict of interest as she also sat on some government board, then she promised to deal with that ACP issue later which she never did and then she got so angry that she wrote some prolactin driven piece in La Prensa saying it was all this author's fault, and let's not forget that Maytín is just a puppet of Bobby Eisenmann, the Chavez bashing whining oligarch with a money laundering past.

These people.

Talking about Chavez, Transparency International, true to form, is doing it again. Blatant fraud. They deliberately and purposefully published a report about transparency of oil companies which has EACH AND EVERY fact demonstrably wrong about the Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA. Full story with proof and evidence here.

Or maybe they got their data from one of those State Department magic laptops?

UPDATE: The Guardian has picked up the story, and it turns out the chief of Transparency International in Caracas is a military coup plotter:

"... on the night of April 12 - after Carmona suspended the assembly - Mercedes de Freitas, a director of the Fundacion Momento de la Gente, a legislative monitoring project subsidized by NED [National Endowment for Democracy, a US government agency], emailed the endowment defending the military and Carmona, claiming the takeover was not a military coup."

FARC chicks are a lot cooler
than, say, Cindy McCain

Okay, so we all know this FARC miracle wonder laptop stuff is fake, propaganda from right-wing drug warriors. But in the wonderful world of spin and deceit, the right thing to do is release more from the same discredited source. Through Associated Press of course, the outlet of choice for this kind of "public diplomacy". Anyway, now they say Clinton was involved with Garcia Marquéz and the talks were to be held in PANAMA! This must have been such a lucrative time for the Colombian rebel group, with Chavez, Correa, Clinton and France all bidding on the prestigious release of hostages and of course trophy Ingrid Bethancourt. And imagine how Torrijos will pretend to have been at the center of it, just like he did with the Kumbaya meeting in Santo Domingo.

On the brighter side, it looks like we're getting the war after all, because the wingnuts won't be happy before they can nuke any peaceful solution to Colombia's conflict. The same shameless, unquestioning, jingoistic piece of crap who brought us the run up to the Iraq war is now spinning how Chavez is the FARC's Guardian Angel and Bush needs to "take him on". Next from the magic laptop: FARC wants to conquer the moon!