Nothing more true than the old saying, “he who dies for his own pleasure, death tastes like glory.” A reality once again reflected in the high number of votes achieved by the candidate Gustavo Petro in the Colombian presidential elections.
I am not a deep connoisseur of the Colombian political reality, but I think that electing Petro is like self-flagellating, the background of this subject allows us to envision an unflattering future since parallel to his way of thinking are the commitments made with his former colleagues the armed struggle, individuals who do not hesitate to pass the bill when they consider themselves betrayed.
The vote in favor of Petro reflects a population fed up with a political establishment that postpones the solution of national problems, that constantly recycles itself and defrauds public goods, thus forgetting those voters that the candidate Petro belongs to the same ruling class that he repudiates, because he was a representative to the Chamber and a Senator, mayor of the capital, candidate for the presidency on several occasions, which means that he has spent decades in the game of power after having been one of the leaders of the subversive movement M19 that attacked the Palace of Justice
In the politics of the South American country, the same surnames are repeated generation after generation. The caudillos have a selection capacity that prevents a genuine renewal, so much so that the senator herself, María Fernanda Cabal, a presidential candidate, said on Twitter that “her country needs changes, but not the suicide offered by the leftist candidate.”
A victory for Gustavo Petro would be the sacrifice of Colombian democracy, just as it happened in Venezuela when the majority voted in favor of the coup plotter Hugo Chávez, a subject who won popular support and the backing of a broad sector of the ruling class with his speech of breaking with the established, promises that many bought hoping to fish in the troubled waters of change, without realizing that the late Chávez was a shark with a desire for power far superior to that of the real or supposed predators he proposed to replace.
Although Petro won in the main cities of the country with the exception of Medellín, Fernando Vargas Quemba, president of the National Committee of Guerrilla Victims, believes, “the departments where Petro won have their logic. An area where there is a presence of crops, drug trafficking and illegal armed groups of the left; and another area where the vote has a tradition of buying and selling”. The economically depressed regions, where the regional bosses act with impunity and chaos reigns, tend to vote for solutions of change as well as the youth, whose tendency towards what is most just is one of the basic nutrients of human society.
Young people in most democratic countries, however imperfect that system may be, have better living conditions than their parents, which does not happen in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, where the majority of youth emigrate or are in prison , a strong reason for that renewable Colombian social sector that favors change, to inform itself and not vote out of resentment, because Gustavo Petro’s proposals and history lead to repeating the failed models of those Latin American countries with extreme misery and political control and police that prevents any change.
In the 2018 elections, knowing that the former insurgent had reached eight million votes, I told my wife, who is from Medellín, “If Duque does not have an excellent government, Petro is the next president,” a situation that I do not appreciate today. so true thanks to the second position achieved by engineer Rodolfo Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga, who could embody the aspirations of the electoral sector that favors political reform, in short, the desired change, without running the risk of being led by a character who It is a real threat to democracy.
The displacement of Federico Gutiérrez to third place seems to indicate that the influence of former President Álvaro Uribe is diminishing, although without a doubt he continues to have a great predominance in the political life of his country, a condition that, in the opinion of several observers, among them the director of Journalism without Borders, Ricardo Puentes Melo, it would be beneficial if his influence disappeared completely.
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