For over a week there have been huge indigenous protests against the Uribe government in Colombia, in which at least two protesters have been killed by police and more than 100 injured. Uribe denied that police were firing at protesters, until CNN got videotape that showed them doing exactly that.
How is the New York Times covering all of this? The paper’s Andean bureau chief, Simon Romero, filed one report two days ago about a “whimsical riff on the bookmobile“—a guy who travels around rural Colombia on his donkeys, taking books to remote villages. (Other major papers have likewise reported nada on the protests.)
