Second: all press is good press. Call attention to Colombian coffee growers, it’s good for their business. Similarly calling attention to Mother Goose & Grimm is good for Mike Peters.

Third: Clearly Nelson Mandela’s a pretty cool dude.

Now about the US not caring what others say about it, it really does not enter into this comment. This is not Colombians as a country going against anyone, I personally don’t care, but a corporation that has a brand to protect is a little miffed about it being used in a dumb (old to me) joke.

I think the federation will get tons of publicity and maybe in the end the victim will be just a cartoonist that is probably regretting trying to use a joke that a corporation did not like.

I’ll digress.

My wife’s grandpa was killed during the period of time in Colombia defined as “la violencia” or just violence, also one of her brothers was murdered by a crime syndicate, so its not just her home country, but the subject does bring some sad memories.

Last time a group of people were upset over a political cartoons I believe there were riots. So I guess the Colombian’s are taking the more “sue happy” approach that is so popular here. I still think it is a publicity stunt by the coffee growers… the joke even in context is of bad taste and its not satire IMHO, but since I heard it before I take it a lot more lightly.

@Bea– of course it’s near and dear to your heart it’s your home country. As there are literally millions of slams against the good ol USA in satire, comics, movies…works both ways. You don’t see tons of Americans going ape shit over a silly comic strip…