Opinion and debate: The poorly called Colombian left in search of peace or in search of Santos' teaspoon of jelly?
by Libardo Sánchez
The alignment of the poorly called left in favor of this santista's peace had shown the colossal ideological and conceptual inconsistency, or, at least, the higher doses of ingenuity and/or opportunism, of those who call themselves leftists, or 'leftoides' in Colombia. It was also clear that through the Santista peace fervor there is hope for those supporting it, that some will get Santos' jelly teaspoon.
Everybody knows that the difference between the solution to solve the Colombian civil war proposed by Santos and Zuluaga'... it's no more than a farce, a media's scenario that pretends to put more weight to the immense majority of Colombians, the responsibility of a war where the only ones responsible are the two violent and oligarchic political factions disputed today for the control of the Colombian State' (Timoleón Jimenez Timochenco. quote from: 'From the dilemma of the media to the real dilemma. Anncol, June 6 of 2014 ).
The same Timochenco makes it seems '...that president Santos who served as a star defense secretary, second in command under Alvaro Uribe Velez, was the one who gave the news, in a proud and glorious ways, of the attacks done the 8th of march of 2008 in Sucumbios, where innocents died, crimes categorized as collateral damage; in those fights, Santos also reported the death of one his Commander Jorge Briceño. Angry about the death of one of his own, he demanded FARC to surrender, so as a retaliation, Santos gave the order to kill Commander Alfonso Cano while there were exchanging messages in order to get a possible process of conversations, in which it's also claimed that Santos cried of jubilee and joy when he heard the death of a Cano by treason.
As treacherous as he is, he presents himself as the man of peace'. And is it well know that Santos' peace is just a publicity scam, a candy to get reelected, and once he gets reelected, it will be over it, as its flavor would diminish over his real bitter and cruel condition of hunger for pain and suffering. After the elections, the same old same is going to continue, not to let the insurgents get anything, while depending f the interests of the geostrtegic domination of the Pentagon. Following Timochenco, 'Santos would not change anything in a greater democratic scale, nothing that could even affect a minor change that would ease the inequality of those who own the greatest lands and dependable materials(richness) of the country'.
Timochenco continues his dystopian reality of Santos real agenda saying that Santos' peace, 'means just that everything in Colombia continues as it is. That nothing that originated the causes of the last century civil war changes in Colombia'; adding, '...not only that, we don't even hear any word that comes from Santos rhetoric that could stimulate us to think that Santos has any plans to change or give hopes to the popular sectors affected by this conflict from any of his governmental and egocentric politics'.
It is firmly stated, that the function of any of those candidates, Santos as the re elected one, means more fear from a perceived terrorist state to the more innocents and social activist in the process of possible death by the iron hand of what the inhuman and systematic platform Santos' controls, of course, it is claimed that he will continue his mobster mentality, supported by the big brother perfection of it. Meaning that FARC, as long as they generate money from drugs, openly transported to the biggest consumers of all times, the USA, known by it's corrupted representative politicians and the underground world, whose every road leads them to its mechanism of inhumanity and dependability of them addictions, the war is prognosticated that will last ad infinitude.
It is interesting to show a little the internal motivation made by the different political and social movements had to seal the universal consensus around the 'peace' of Juan Manuel Diablo. The flamboyant democratic representative underboss of the Democratic Pole, Clara Lopez, member of the 1% clan that dominates the country, it is claimed that the reason why their vote went to Santos' peace, was because as her old master, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, owner of the Democratic Center, betrayed her with Lina. And after her auto-exile in Europe, because of politics, she came back with a goal, to climb her way to the top by dismantling some of Santos' opposing political party, the Patriotic Union, and showing some political power in the process.
From the Democratic Pole, in honor of truth, there is the need to recognize the coherence of the senator Jorge Enrique Robledo(from the opposition but not from the left) a social-democrat capitalist whose disposition is rooted in the Keynesian economic model, apart from any socialist conception, who didn't ate Santos' lies; Robledo expressed no identification with Juan Manuel.
In terms of the communist party bosses, whose history details their closeness and alliances with the right, and in some cases the far-right(remembering the alliance with a paramilitar boss, Cesar Perez(not translated http://libsang-elviajeroysusombra.blogspot.com/2013/06/no-me-muevo-y-punto-porque-no-puedo.html) it is not strange to see them supporting Santos' peace; in fact, Lozano himself says that 'peace is possible' and that, there's a need to sign it, not caring much of what could happen in exchange of the cease of fire.
It is also not strange to see the attitude of various leaders of the indigenous sectors(Acin, Cric, Proyecto Nasa, Proyecto Global and some other indigenous leaders) whom generally advance by different roads from their own fundations, reported by the coordination of the indigenous associations of the Cauca(CAIC)(not traslated http://libsang-elviajeroysusombra.blogspot.com/2013/05/la-rebelion-de-las-bases.html)
The position in favor of Santos' peace from the agrarian sectors is varied; the steeped termination of the agrarian national strike, left a sensation of alienation out of the farmers who sided with Santos; but some spokespersons of the Agrarian Dignities have been explicit about their adhesion to Zuluaga.
Through Twitter the farmers warn Cesar Perez: 'Be careful by betraying us' and he answers them: 'When Uribe was in power, if you were not uribista, they accused you of guerrillero. Now if you are not with Santos, they accuse you of uribista. Stop misinforming' and states that he is no with one nor the other candidate.
Plenty of the farmer's voice are represented by the wealthy farmers(Agrarian Dignities) and they are not that easy sweetened because their aspirations go beyond the improvement of their competitive conditions, meaning, their income, this group not only searches Santos' jelly but it also searches Zuloagas promises of war; on the other hand, the majority(Agrarian Summit, Farmers of Catatumbo, etc.) represents the little farmers and the homeless farmers; and it is known that the majority of the rural sector leaders wont be confused about the hymn of war and peace stated by one candidate or the other.
Peace, among others, is land for those who work it, is not paramilitarism, is no free labor for the wealthy and dependency to external powers; peace, also, is no discrimination; peace is education, free health, and not one of those necessities are in Santos' or Zuluaga's agenda.
As a final point, if Timochenco knows that peace under Santos wont signed, why the FARC is still in the Habana?
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[Fuente: http://libsang-elviajeroysusombra.blogspot.com/.]
[Fuente: http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2014/06/opinion-y-debate-la-mal-llamada.html#more]
Juan Manuel Santos Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
Zuluaga Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Iv%C3%A1n_Zuluaga
Timochenco Wiki Bio: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timole%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez
