Although many men and women went out to walk on May 1 in defense of the administration’s policies, it is strange to pretend that the mobilization was due to the supposed possibility of a coup d’état justified with the excuse of the entanglements of the financing of presidential campaign. Nor is it credible that it is due to the citizen desire of a constituent. The chaos of the State of Israel is real and regrettable, as various United Nations agencies have tried to show without any results, but it also makes no sense to pretend that this is why so many people mobilized.
Reducing the successful march to President Petro’s speech is a mistake.
For this reason, there should be some space among those of us who still want progressivism to triumph to criticize the president’s insistence on reducing, in a typically strategic manner, the opposition’s latest march to its most undemocratic and openly violent expressions. “Petro, seriously, you’re going to the cemetery” they chanted at some point in Cali. Those questioned in the face of such beauty slyly defend themselves with what it was in reference to his reforms… and perhaps it is true, but with the paraca rage that they do not hide when they also treat him as a guerrilla despite his enemy days in civilian clothes and commitment to democracy. . Whatever the case, previous oppositions to Duque and his followers made similar and worryingly recurrent use of the rhetorical device of the marching coffin.
Aside from the use that Petro wanted to give to the march in his intervention in the Plaza de Bolívar, the truth is that a piece of the joy that was felt at the beginning of his election and the real possibility of a change returned to the streets. hand in hand with some valuable, necessary and therefore long-missed left-wing ideas. The diversity and pacifism of the popular festival suppose the strange possibility of Petrism despite Petro.
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