November 15, 2007 (LPAC)--Colombian politicians are suddenly tripping over themselves to prove who's more for building a subway/metro line in the nation's capital, in the wake of the victory of the subway champion, Samuel Moreno, in the Oct. 28 Bogota mayoral elections. In a nation targeted as a guinea pig for the "Revolution in Military Affairs" permanent war doctrine, the support for the subway is a revolution, for which the LaRouche Association of Colombia has been organizing intensively.

A Bogota City Council committee representing several ideologically-antagonistic parties is being put together to travel to Caracas, to seek financing from the Chavez government, it was announced this week. With one of his coalition parties publicly pleading with him to stop attacking the metro and get behind it, President Alvaro Uribe has gone from dismissing the project out of hand; to grudging talk of how financing might be scratched up after 2010; to saying currently that {of course} the national government will help put the financing together for it!

With this turn, comes a stronger impetus for South American integration, and major infrastructure investment through the Banco del Sur (Bank of the South) being launched next month. Colombian daily La Republica headlined its Nov. 13 article on the various metro discussions: "Bank of the South: Option for the Metro.