Thursday Tab Clearing
Pop those tabs!
First, the Latin American section:
- Via France 24: Hernandez: Colombia’s anti-graft candidate with a checkered past
- Via the BBC: Centuries-old shipwrecks found off Colombian coast
- Via CBS News: Elaborate sting targets notorious Colombian cartel as Italian police seize 4.3 tons of cocaine in one of Europe’s largest drug busts ever
- Via the NYT: Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian Drug Lord, Dies at 83
- Via the LAT: Summit of the Americas hobbles to its opening as Mexico’s president declines to attend
- Via Notre Dame News: Five Years After the Signing of the Colombian Final Agreement: Reflections from Implementation Monitoring
And the rest:
- Via WRAL: NC’s lieutenant governor: ‘We are called to be led by men,’ not women
- Matthew Shugart at Fruits and Votes has some thoughts on his states’ electoral rules: California’s STUPID electoral system, 2022 first round edition
Italian police seize 4.3 tons of cocaine
Reason #2856 for why one should never put all of your eggs in one basket.
Then there’s this:
“We raped, pillaged, and plundered that treasure fair and square!”
As to, NC’s lieutenant governor: ‘We are called to be led by men,’ not women, that leaves him out.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Which was almost literally the response a European nation gave to South Korea in request for the return of several thousand year old Buddhist relics stolen in the 18th Century, IIRC.
Mmm. Okay then. Proceed if you must, by all means.
@OzarkHillbilly:
One suspects they didn’t.
@Just nutha ignint cracker:
How about the nation that recently moved out of Europe, vis a is the Parthenon marbles?
@gVOR08:
Indeed, I am certain they didn’t.
@Jen:
I’m flashing back to those chants of “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
@Kathy: Well, it’s certainly a common defense; that’s true.
Breaking: Police now uncertain as to whether it was a death by natural causes after discovering a half-eaten chicken nugget and a napkin with the Pollos Hermanos logo.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Got something to share? Perhaps a party invitation?
@just nutha:
If we confine ourselves just to Egyptian artifacts, there’s plenty that’s been taken. Nefertiti’s bust, the Rosetta stone, several obelisks (some taken by Rome when that empire was a going concern, so this goes back a while), or just look at the many, many museums in the US and Europe that have whole Egyptology wings. And there’s also a lot more in private collections.
@Kathy: Italy would also have to hand back quite a bunch of stuff to Istanbul…
@Neil Hudelson: Ha!
@grumpy realist:
Oh, there’s plenty of stuff around, perhaps too much to handle it all back.
I kind of think of all ancient artifacts as a common patrimony of all humanity. Also grave robbing and antiques trafficking isn’t new. Most pharaonic tombs were robbed in ancient times, and I suspect many amulets buried with royal mummies wound up reburied with noble but non-royal mummies.
IMO, most artifacts can stay where they are, provided they are properly cared for and preserved, studied, documented, photographed, digitized, etc. Even with the best of care, these things won’t last forever. It’s important to keep a more permanent record of them.
Some artifacts of historical or national significance and/or that are part of a structure that still stands, ought to be returned to their countries of origin, provided they can be well kept there. This would include the Parthenon marble sculptures, the Rosetta stone, and some other notable pieces I can’t think of right now.
@Just nutha ignint cracker: And the Brits still insist on telling the Greeks.
@gVOR08: Assuredly, but they still fcked up here. Send it over a half ton at a time. Mules are cheap… and stupid.