Diplomatic marathon

When back in 1992 Catalunya got busy denominating the olympic games as local Jocs Olimpics rather than Juegos Olimpicos, the rest of Castilliano speaking Spain was enjoying the festivities on the 500 years of Columbus' discovery of what became Latin America.

On the Aztec, Maia and Inca side of the ocean, however, governmental leaders and popular activists saw no reason for any joyful celebration, commemorating self invited conquerers as the causers of centuries of war, murder and slavery.  Either way, the world had irreversably become a smaller place.

In 2012 we see nationalisation of Spain's Repsol's subsidiary in Argentina, a presidential decree from Morales for Coca Cola and McDonalds to abandon Bolivia by mid December, all in the name of financial, civil and/or cultural sovereignty, adding up to other contemporary Bolivarian sentiment in Venezuela, Columbia ...

I am not sure if anyone knows why Julian Assange picked the Embassy of Ecuador, among the dozens on that side of Hyde Park, but then again he has obvioulsy demonstrated before to know things most of us do not, yet.

The UNASUR ministers for foreign affairs, some of whom met only a few days ago on the occasion of celebrating Ecuador's speerheading liberation from Spain, will have an urgent meeting this Sunday with the "British threat" as the sole item on the agenda.

This may very well be(come) a bit more than another north-south political divide.