February 18, 2021
The power of Colombia’s president depends on his ability to manage the sometimes opposing interests of those who really control the country, like business associations.
While formally a democracy, all presidents of the 21st century have had no choice but to balance serving the public interest with private and even criminal interests.
This unstable balance of power is partly due to the country’s political history and culture, and partly a consequence of the country’s armed conflict.
The origin
The root of the problem is Colombia’s historically weak state, which has never allowed it to stand alone without support.
February 15, 2021
Ranchers’ federation chief Jose Felix Lafaurie has every reasons to worry. The evidence indicating the may be one of Colombia’s biggest crooks is becoming difficult to ignore.
The Fedegan director would like to believe he’s a legitimate businessman, the husband of an honorable senator and the friend of “the greatest Colombian ever,” former President Alvaro Uribe.
The alleged terrorism sponsor is delusional like that.
Lafaurie previously claimed that massacre victims were guerrillas, that members of his terrorism support group never assassinated war victims and most recently that teachers were converting school children into communists.
“Again Lafaurie is putting a tombstone on the teachers,” their union President Nelson Alarcon said Saturday after the rancher’s chief latest conspiracy theory and the multiple assassinations of school teachers.