Ending The Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?
By: Luis Fernando Medina
Boston Review

“…To be sure, Colombia may be able to stand down and pursue a more equal and democratic future. Peace is possible and may not even be particularly difficult. Colombia’s combatants share the same ethnic, religious, and linguistic background. There is no call for secession, and there will be no forced collectivization of private property. Several decades from now, Colombia’s conflict may appear to have been the growing pains of a society whose modernization process of inclusion and prosperity hadn’t kept pace on an agrarian frontier where only the drug trade and the occasional ill-fated resort to armed struggle offered hope. In that case, Colombia would not be the first country to overcome this condition.” (cont.)

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Individualismo majadero

“…La infraestructura física, si bien es indispensable, no lo es todo. Más aún, pensar que eso es lo único, es también parte del problema. El subdesarrollo también es mental, cultural. [...] La falta de investigación científica, el bajo porcentaje de personas que lee periódicos, la ausencia de doctores (de los de verdad) y la falta de bibliotecas son algunas de ellas. Pero hay algo tal vez más importante que todo lo anterior [...]: la capacidad para actuar colectivamente, como sociedad.”

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Minor Players Caught Up In Colombia’s Drug War: NPR

There was a time when Colombia refused to extradite suspected drug traffickers to the U.S. These days, critics say Colombia is extraditing too many minor players in the drug trade. So minor that some have spent just a few months in a U.S.

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