OPINET COLUMN
just six years ago, for the days when she was kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia was a country viable. Three days before of the kidnapping, President Andres Pastrana ended a failed peace process with the FARC and ordered the recovery of an area of \u200b\u200b42 square miles that had given the guerrilla group to facilitate the negotiation. After three years of teasing because the FARC never showed signs of wanting to authentic peace, on the contrary, as if it were a nightmare Macondo, maximizing its terrorist acts and said to the four winds that they were not seeking peace agreements but the seizure of power to establish a Marxist regime.
The country was intoxicated with the hope of peace, while the Colombian stoically endured the kidnapping of every day the bombing of the week, the shattered town each month, victims of landmines, police and soldiers ambushed by terrorists who exceeded on weapons and number, and the dead of all sorts: rich and poor, young and old, regardless of the guerrillas they appeared contrary to their interests. In contrast, the paramilitaries did the same in much of the country as to leave no doubt that Colombia was no man's land, and consequently, the uncertainty took hold of all, many left without return ticket.
But just when the night was dark, while all Colombians gave a holding pattern to the FARC to reach agreements on roundtable, Álvaro Uribe Vélez dared to condemn without hesitation the attitude of the guerrillas and noted that it was imperative to confront them with a firm hand, although the moral of arms of the state was on the floor after several defeats inflicted by the subversive.
With that argument, Uribe was elected president for a nation wounded in its dignity, and the results were not slow to see: the troops were spread throughout the country, took the police to the municipalities where the FARC had been thrown into bullet, militarized the road ... In a matter of months down drastically all indicators of violence, kidnappings, extortion, murder, shots of villages, ambushes, etc.. And again trust, future dreams, the desire to work in Colombia. The citizens, who were virtually under siege in the big cities, took to the roads on holidays, to return to the countryside and beaches, endless convoys guarded by the heroes of the Fatherland.
The guerrillas went deep into the jungles, and neighboring countries, waiting to pass the 'shower' Uribe, and then it became necessary to re-election, in the words of Ingrid Betancourt, has been the worst Unfortunately for the FARC guerrilla expected because the pendulum motion of another government to abort the current policies president. The Colombian people voted massively for the continuity despite some criticism of the Government that the guerrillas were intact and had not captured even a leader.
However, the Government acted with patience, confident that it was a matter of time. And desertions had begun to undermine the guerrillas and were interrupted contact with farmers, food supply and to communications. The army occupied the guerrilla controlled areas for 40 years.
the end of 2006, the FARC guerrillas burst. On 31 December, Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo today escaped in the midst of a bombing, the camp where she was abducted by more than five years. Months after they missed the policeman John Frank Pinchao and then began to fall leaders: the alias' JJ ', the' Black Acacio ',' Martin Caballero ',' Raúl Reyes', 'Martin Sombra', 'Iván Ríos',' Manuel Marulanda '...
But nobody expected the coup that happened last Wednesday when the military snatched the FARC their most precious jewels in a conjuror's act demonstrates once again, as in the case of Emmanuel, "that the FARC are a terminally ill patient who suffers from a very late loss of its powers. Napoleon had said that "The victory belongs to those who persevere more, and faith that Uribe has failed to budge until the point of demobilized paramilitaries and guerrillas devastate. For this should not surprise anyone that the apotheosis of his office with six years in power-count with a support of 90 percent of Colombians and can be optimistic about the future of Colombia.
