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I remember an interview from many years ago in which he said –I quote from memory–: "A coordinated action by truckers is enough to overthrow a government in Colombia." And these days there have been meetings organized by retired officers inviting active soldiers to disavow the command of the new president, since they say that giving an account to a former guerrilla is the greatest humiliation in the history of the Military Forces. The adversaries are many and powerful.
The financial industry, the mafias in all sectors, the armies of drug trafficking, the media oligopoly, the big landowners..as soon as they see a great weakness they will jump at the jugular of the new government. And it is because of the awareness of this, because of C Level Contact List concrete analysis of the concrete reality, that some months before the elections Petro began to propose that what was really ambitious was to aspire to a transitional government, one that without being a revolution would open a new cycle in Colombia, will finally leave political violence behind and ensure a series of fundamental rights. It is the subscription to another of Jaime Bateman Cayón's ideas: "The most revolutionary thing in Colombia today is democracy.
How far will the new government go? I dare say that the changes in common sense that led him to victory are the best guarantee of a long-term transformation that does not end with Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, but is just beginning. The frameworks have already been expanded, the functional myths of the old regime have been shattered, the correlation of forces does not stop moving and the future has never looked so immense. That is why these three moments of the campaign are so significant: that of the dignity of "the nobodies", that of the politicization of everyday life and that of the legitimacy and urgency of the voice of the victims and those from below in the public sphere. . Beyond the historic triumph, beyond the new progressive cycle in Latin America, this popular demand is already revolutionary in Colombia. We have hope: a political, ethical and aesthetic change is already in the air.
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