Presidential grudge

By: Pedro Corzo - 27/03/2023

Guest columnist.
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It is difficult to understand what motivates the voters of a country to choose individuals who, due to their backgrounds, are a threat to their rights, although it is undoubtedly more complicated to reason that the electorate can be motivated to select subjects loaded with grudges, frustrations and complexes, two particularly propitious circumstances. to create a perfect storm, environment, which, in my opinion, can occur in Colombia.

Needless to say, I would never have chosen Mr. Gustavo Petro. He distrusted populist leaders identified with extremist positions with a history of violence, moreover, his vice president, Mrs. Francia Márquez, is the sum of all the opposites that should dignify the popular vote, and this has nothing to do with her blackness, because The person who writes is a Cuban, and on the island, as has always been said, "he who does not have Congo, has carabalí."

Mrs. Márquez, a person who in the media reflects a systematic victimization due to the color of her skin and her condition as a woman, gives the impression of being racist, of discriminating while feeling segregated, and to top it off, of believing herself to be more prerogatives than the rest of the citizens when declaring to the magazine Semana that the unjustified use of a helicopter would not generate so much scandal “If it were white and elite, they would not be making a scandal because it is normal. It is normal for an elite person, who was born in a cradle of gold, to be transported in these equipments and aircraft, but it is not normal for a woman who worked in a family home and who is now the vice president of Colombia to transport herself in that. Well, bad, and I'm sorry ”.

The deep envy that the vice president reflects towards the wealthy class is stronger than any commitment to justice. His frequent statements full of resentment and resentment remind me of a song from the seventies in Cuba that said, "the poor are good and the rich are bad." By the way, the singer went into exile years later along with the poor and rich that he despised in their interpretations.

I admit, I will never understand the electorate that voted for the Petro-Márquez duo and their associates. First, because of the commitments and political proposals of both and the ideological models that promote, as the president said, "that the fall of the Berlin wall, 1989, not 1993, and the illusion of the Soviet Union, was a defeat of the labor movement on a large scale." universal”, which shows that this gentleman still defends real socialism, Stalinism.

After these statements, it should not be surprising that the illustrious and paradigmatic citizen Francia Márquez declares that Cuba is not governed by a 64-year-old dictatorship and that Colombia must follow the Castro health model, whose fundamental characteristics are that the relatives of the sick must send the necessary medicines to the Island and the health centers do not have the most basic instruments to provide an adequate service.

On the other hand, it is true that the Cuban regime does not export weapons, but one of its methods to maintain its rigid social control is to sell its professionals, particularly doctors, for the most part, always ready to provide services outside the country to improve their conditions. of life, not for humanism.

Madam Vice President, José Martí, said "Ignorance kills the Peoples" and with all due respect, I recommend that you kill your ignorance.

I am among those convinced that democracy is the best system that exists, and that one of the essential commitments of politicians and citizens is to educate themselves on their rights and those of others, with the aim of being better in the role they play. appropriate and thus, avoid choosing people who do not have the proper competence or respect for the rest.

A few days ago my wife, by the way, a Colombian, showed me some statements by José Miguel Quintana, "We marijuana users are the ones who are going to make the laws in this country, whether the unions like it or not."

After these thunderclaps, I reproduce a headline from the weekly magazine, “Colombia is going badly. The dark clouds of the economy, the deterioration of public order, the skyrocketing of drug trafficking, the ineffectiveness of the public force and the uncertainty about the reforms have Colombians mired in pessimism”, added, in particular, their rulers.

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