Colombian ex-president to teach at Georgetown U

[naaman fletcher]

BOGOTA, Colombia — Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is taking his political expertise to Georgetown University in Washington, where he has been named a distinguished scholar.

The university announced Wednesday that Uribe will hold seminars and work with faculty on international issues during the 2010-11 academic year.
Carol Lancaster, dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said in a statement that Uribe "will bring a truly unique perspective to discussions of global affairs."

Uribe, 58 and a lawyer by training, ended his two-term presidency on Aug. 7 and has been popular among many Colombians for improving security and making military gains against leftist rebels.

This week, Uribe also confirmed his participation in a U.N. panel investigating Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

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Time to add Georgetown U to the list of institutions including Hilton, Marriot, and Intercontinental who know less about Colombia than our favorie DU poster.

[Wilms]

1. Should it surprise that US corps are unfamiliar, or choose to ignore?

You see this, and Uribe's "participation in a U.N. panel investigating Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla" as some kind of endorsement?

Uribe makes Blair look like he's his own man.