I don’t know if anyone gives a rat’s ass about it, but I feel like posting about it. Sometimes I feel like I’m writing for no one, but myself, and that is OK. And no, I’m not pissed… I may sound pissed, but I am not. OK, I am, but not with the people who read this weblog. I’m pissed about everything that is going on in Colombia lately.
As many people know, my country has been occupied by rebels who call themselves communists. There isn’t such thing. They lost their Marxist ideals a while ago, along with the power to make understand people they are fighting for everyone’s rights. That, and the corruption in the government has pretty much put us in a very bad political and social situation. The guerrillas are nothing but common criminals who kidnap people and bleed my country dry every single day. Not to mention they now control part of the drug dealing Colombia is so well-known for.
So, a few years ago a man came to give us an option. That option was to fight the rebels like it should have been done a long time ago. He won the election, and then he got re-elected. I don’t know much about politics, but I can assure anyone who is reading this post, that re-election was won fairly. People in Colombia are tired of the rebels… OK, I cannot generalize because I know some people actually agree with them, but you get my point. Anyway… Our current president is like any other leader. Some love him (I do!), some others hate him.
Whatever it is Alvaro Uribe Vélez is doing, he is certainly not being a puppet of the rebel leaders who have wanted to play the whole country for years. And while I understand the pain and frustration of the families of every person who’s being held hostage by the rebels, I find it OUTRAGEOUS that they seem to forget the government is not the one doing these kidnappings. So stop blaming Mr. Uribe already!
Then comes Hugo Chávez, a clown who thinks he’s the re-incarnation of Simón Bolívar, saying he wants to help in the peace process in Colombia. It all smelled fishy to me from the very beginning. This imbecile has some weird ideas of reuniting La Gran Colombia again, blah, blah, blah. It was the perfect moment for him to start getting involved in another country’s politics. I may have simplistic views sometimes, but it doesn’t require a politics degree to understand that certain leaders just want attention, and use any kind of situation to get going with their own political agenda. This is what Hugo Chávez is doing.
He doesn’t care about the kidnappings, he doesn’t care about helping anyone. I simply cannot believe it. So now he’s putting Colombians against their president saying that the government is killing the hostages by impeaching the peace process. What do you know, monkey? To play with the pain and the hopes of thousands of people who long to see their loved ones again. That’s what he is doing. So when someone comes to tell me that Hugo Chávez is a saviour, and that Alvaro Uribe is doing something wrong, the only thing I can think about is that he’s doing what any other leader of a country would do: RULING! And Chávez stepped over the line when he tried to give orders to a general who’s under Uribe’s command.
But now the rebels say they want to free some hostages and that they will deliver them… TO CHAVEZ! WTF is wrong with these people? And WTF is one supposed to do about it? I would like it very much to see all these hostages free, but what is the price we’ll all have to pay someday?
So now there is the controversy of it all. A divided country. People saying they support Uribe. People saying Uribe is a fool. Because he didn’t give into Chávez’s delusional ideas? I say “Well done, Señor Presidente!” – And Piedad Córdoba? Don’t even get me started… seriously… I see her like a traitor. I hate when people use any mean available to put themselves on the spot.
If anyone has real intentions of fixing things in Colombia, they have to start by putting their self-centered ideas aside and thinking of what’s best for our country, not for themselves.
P.S. As soon as I was done with this post, I read that the guerrillas leaders are asking Uribe to renounce the presidency in order to free all the hostages. ESTÚPIDOS!
Bea,
I was looking for a place to vent my anger! And I ended up writing to CNN so they could tell someone that Oliver Stone is the dumbest human alive, besides the Venezuelan president.
. . . here’s my letter upon reading what Mr. Stone said to the AP.
“My very simple question is: Who does Mr. Stone think he is, to go to Colombia and tell the 44 million Colombians that he has “no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living,” “And here, if you fight, you fight to win.” Mr. Stone said this in an interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar.
I do not think that this is a war of peasants, nor that they are poor people trying to fight for a decent living. The rebels have been killing thousands of Colombians for decades, without looking them or their families in the face. Where is their good cause? If these rebels are trying to do something good for our country, they should start by not killing their own country men, the real peasants who have to withstand the pain of seeing their land destroyed by the war, or who have to abandon it because they can no longer stay there safely.
Mr. Stone has never lived there, his family members were not kidnapped, nor killed by the rebels. Why does he think he can call them ‘peasants fighting for a decent living’? it is such an insult to every single Colombian citizen who goes to work every day to make an HONEST living. The millions of men, women and children who chose not to go into the ways of the guns. Someone please ask Mr. Stone to stop speaking about the rebels in such an endearing way, as if we should thank them for what they do. Mr. Stone, please stop insulting the majority of Colombians.”
And for the record, I am now quite an Uribista!
~moni.