What else could explain the selection of Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate in the United States, a vote in favor of Brexit in the United Kingdom, and most seriously, the rejection of a peace deal with the leftist guerillas of the FARC in Colombia, thus stretching out the 50-year-long civil war there yet further?
Colombia’s collective suicide is the magnum opus in the long career of former president Uribe, who managed to win the hearts (of darkness) and minds (if that’s the word) of the majority of the few of his fellow countrymen that bothered to turn out in the most important vote in their country’s blighted history.
His job was to remind voters of something they already knew, that the leftist FARC guerrillas that the government has just signed a peace deal with are loathed by more than 95% of the country.
This year may have highlighted the problem more than usual, but it’s really no exception to the rule.
Infantile and primitive, we are prey to the most basic of vanities and crazed desire for power of our alpha males.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/04/inenglish/1475576843_114566.html
