This pic is Gustavo Petro, a left-wing presidential candidate in Colombia, being protected during a speech due to death threats.

I know very little about what is going on, all I know is that he is leading the pools, is in the left and right wing in the country is desperate to defeat him.

Do any of you know any place or text so I can inform myself? Like TeleSur etc

  • cold4nervous@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    3 years ago

    Colombia is going through one of the most critical points in its history. Most people around the country can’t eat three times a day and 7.3 million Colombians will need food assistance, 2.9 million people doesn’t have a job and 5.6 work informally with a total of 52 million people as its current population. Colombia has a lot of social problems that are consequence of Neo-liberalism like; migration, war, classism, drug, inequality and so on…

    Apart from that Colombia has a record of assassinating social leaders, complete political parties and left-wing candidates (candidates for president) , mostly because Colombia is the back yard/red district of US and the drugs cartels.

    Petro has been an excellent politician is his political career and wanted to make public the trash collection sector and i almost succeeded. Petty oligarchs and bankers are scary of him and his party (left-wing) won the elections for the Senate. He’s not ML but he doesn’t trash talk and is possible that he aligns with other AES, but low hopes for that.

    (Do it makes sense to you? I am trying to learn English and I almost never (really never) write anything) PD: Do you need sources?

    • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.mlOP
      7·
      3 years ago

      Makes a lot of sense, thanks! Honestly, I hope he wins. If his goverment succeds even a little bit in easing the pain of the population it would be very good.

      Id like some sources if it doesnt bother you, I wanna know more about what is going on

      and maybe he will align with AES. Lula goverment here in Brasil was at best, a soc dem goverment. But damn he was based as fuck in his international policies. Given Petro background as an ex-guerrilheiro he could follow a similar path

      • cold4nervous@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        National Food Bank Network; Regional and National poverty and hunger graphs

        42,5% (around 19 million) people lived off less than $89.50 per month in 2021 More than 12% of the population earned less than $40.70 per month in 2021; Gov data

        Poverty in Statistics, Labour and Unemployed; Worst in the region, Bankers and tax evasion; As you can see the inequality and economic problems most people live in, and of course why we should be thankful at the rich with only 4 years in jail for making b/millions of dollars by making millions of people live on the edge, but yes, capitalist works as intended.

        Colombia is hunger hotspot for FAO Map 

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        Social leaders being murdered, In excel too; All this people want to make a change, but, in the wrong country.

        Some important figures in the history of communism in Colombia are Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Jaime Pardo Leal, Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, and Jaime Bateman Cayón. All of them were assassinated by the opposition (drug lords, bankers, landowners, CIA, etc) between 30 and 50 years old, this is one of the main reasons why Colombian people don’t support left-wing movements so far until now; they don’t live long enough to make a change.

        Petro and his achievements For summary he has combated with the corruption and anti-people guerrillas owned by landowners and drug lords (Yeah! the same ones, of course too, that are in the senate). One the most important achievements is that he expose the relationships with those *****les and the ex-president Uribe, a dog-asset-puppet of the US, landowners and drug lords(Again), wannabe dictator and sociopath. Apart for that he wanted to protect natural reserves, lower public transportation tarifes, make the garbage colletion company state owned (at least in the capital), make free-college, diversify the economy (not dependent on oil), make a subway for the capital (yes we don’t have one), and so on. He has been attacked by the usual *****les, the people, and even “leftist”; too based for them.

        • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.mlOP
          3·
          3 years ago

          Damn your explanation is way better than I expected, thank you! I haven’t finished reading all the sources but if you don’t mind, one last thing:

          What about the FARCs?

          I know they signed a deal w the goverment that went wrong and the goverment started hunting them down. But should we suport them? Or are they crazy like Sandero Luminoso? The few things I’ve read about them gives me the impression they are pretty based but the Colombian goverment is just insanely ruthless, but I don’t know much about them or what happend to them after the peace accords

          • cold4nervous@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            3 years ago

            I’m sorry but i don’t have much knowledge in the subject. Farc has been a controversial guerrilla mainly because they kidnapped a lot people and have problems in the command chain. But you need to know that media has tried to destroy his image at all cost. Take what I say with a grain of salt pls. I would like to talk about the matter but i am new to ML and communist so I’m trying to figure things out, maybe in a few days or weeks I’ll post something about it on Genzhou.

            So critical support if you take in account; trying to bring literacy, fought against paramilitaries, support people from rural areas, killed oligarchs, build infrastructure, teaching Marx and Lenin.

            Check this book if you want more info or wait some time until i drop the “essay”

  • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.mlOP
    18·
    3 years ago

    Also, unrelated, but I’m writing about Brasil bc this year is about to get progressively insane and I think it would be nice to bring you guys some context and what communists are planning. But the text is getting way bigger then I initially intended, even though I am write as simple as possible.

    So uh, is it better if I divide in smaller parts and post seperately or do you prefer one big post?

  • Rafael_Luisi@lemmygrad.ml
    111·
    3 years ago

    Colombia is probably the most cucked country by the US, along with SK, Japan, anglo countries, Taiwan, etc, an even remotly leftist politician surviving such an hostile ambient is an big challenge.