already seems pointless to debate or argue in this country. Colombia is a state of deaf and blind who put their stubbornness on expedited reality that manifests itself in front of you. On 30 May, the candidate for U party, Juan Manuel Santos, ranked first in the race by a significant margin of difference over a candidate Antanas Mockus, who was second with many fewer votes.
What are all the discussions that Santos had to play the role of victim? What fruits harvested arguments Mockus, Pardo, Petro and Lleras? What served the country know about the military killings and persecutions on the part of DAS? For nothing. The disappointing response to these questions leads to another question: Is Colombia a country of ignorant or lazy country? They appear to be both, but mostly the latter.
media are known in the many cases of false positives and spikes implemented by institutions who led at the time the candidate Juan Manuel Santos. It was known paramilitary input through the basement of the Casa de Nariño. And all this is not even the slightest force to take the momentum of the machinery Uribe seems to take over the country.
What happens in Colombia is the apparent triumph of simplistic propaganda and seduction to the hollow speeches are worth much more than a structured plan of government, a debate or a transparent policy formation. "More work, better paid" and "The toconur and tocosan" were phrases successful that captivated millions of voters.
And to finish the embarrassing (but effective) contents of the Santos campaign, the candidate of the Partido de la U assumed the role of victim to the inability to counter the arguments of their opponents. This situation, similar to that of a cheating liar, charmed the public as a fool in love.
However, any negative events, and tested against Santos is able to open the perspective to their voters. Even the threat that was posed to members of Families in Action withdraw benefits, as a result of not voting for him, is viewed with disfavor.
There are even people who qualify positively these acts, since it is the assurance of continuity of social programs implemented by this government (when in fact the creator of Families in Action was Pastrana). And I can swear, unequivocally, that the people that I've read such views have not been even vaguely close to the program to have the authority to give approval.
can not say under any circumstances, to give aid to the poor is bad. But the method has been used since the Pastrana government is totally wrong. This is because the word aloud welfarism appears in the Families in Action program, they are but crumbs that are delivered there.
How can it be possible that the delivery of 100 thousand dollars every two months to be effective in a country where the minimum wage is not enough to give a decent living for a family? It does not take an economic analyst to realize that this is the perfect excuse to mask the ineffectiveness of a government that employment generation was he big.
A corruption unsustainable
Beyond the false positive or DAS persecution and threats to Colombian citizens, the problem of corruption in the current government has deep roots, possibly cares not a voter Uribe.
aqueducts
The issue is an eyesore that leaves the administration of Alvaro Uribe, not because of lack of management, but by abundance of corrupt hands on projects. In the case of the department of Huila, the Department of Water Plan will have spent more than 8 billion dollars in two years and works have not even begun.
More worrying still is the same subject in the department of Cordoba, where Uribe's government through an aqueduct was built inflated sums for which no current or a single drop of water because of the budget that came embezzlement almost 10 billion pesos (double the amount provided for the works).
Such events have a direct impact on the coastal town of Cordoba department with the consumption of drinking water a major cause of morbidity and mortality. It is strange, then, the great support they receive Uribe policies in this region.
same thing happens in Choco department with more marginalized in the country, and paradoxically one of the least input from Social Action programs of the President receives. There's money pipeline has allocated more than once. However, corruption has robbed the people of this area of \u200b\u200bthe country the possibility of access to clean water.
Low interest seemed to have Álvaro Uribe to give better sanitation to Colombia, as soon undertook to overthrow the conditions for the whole country had a sewer quality.
Following the issuance of the law 1176 of 2007, regulating the installation of water supply for all municipalities, the government issued the 1477 decree by which to put conditions on the certification process, will ensure the proper management monies.
However, seeing that most municipalities did not have adequate conditions for resource management, the government had to make a new decree (the 2323, 2009) which softened drastically the conditions of accreditation, so that all regions will qualify.
And before the obligation of all areas of departmental plans to enter the water, fell in a wave of corruption led by the departments of Chocó, Atlántico, Sucre and Cordoba, which are most affected in this large outbreak of robberies and patronage.
Thus, it is not strange that in the current situation in Colombia 818 of the 1,110 mayors are there in the country are under investigation for corruption and mismanagement of public resources.
A losing battle? Account
a popular adage that when the frog is removed from the pond to be put in hot water, splash and fight tirelessly until his death. However, when the pool is converted into a hive just the toad does not even realize and gave no resistance to an imminent death.
These days, amidst the feast of its landslide victory in the first round, walks Uribe asking the opposition to withdraw and stop babbling their attacks. It seems a popular clamor, oblivious corruption, killings and insults committed by this government. The
Uribe, like the toad, have been suffering from slight changes in temperature that keeps them unaware of the direction of his pond, and consequently others ask us to adapt to the boiling water.
However, there are still more than 5 million noticed the noisy frogs in his pond change happened and will continue paddling against the current of a failed model, although they die in the attempt to cool the hot pot which has become Colombia.