Russian interference in Colombia's elections
When one reads, listens to and observes the news spreads of the magazine Semana and the Colombian right-wing radio and television network RCN, which are then reproduced on the different social networks by the leaders and followers of the Democratic Centre Party and the parties allied to the government of President Iván Duque, about Russian interference in the elections in Colombia, one does not know whether to laugh or sit down and cry when reading or listening to so much disinformation prefabricated by the political strategists of the Latin American ultra-right from the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES).
A foundation controlled by the ex-president of the Spanish government, José María Aznar, from which dozens of documents and information are produced to generate panic and fear among Latin American voters and now especially among Colombians about the dangers of the plague of communism taking power in the next elections in Colombia.
Foundation that has links with the ultra-right of the Cuban-Americans of the Republican Party, sector of Senator Marco Rubio and the representative to the Federal House of Representatives for the State of Florida, María Elvira Salazar. This foundation has links with other networks of foundations and think tanks in Europe, the United States and Latin America for which they develop political campaigns to demonise progressive political leaders in Latin America. Foundation of which former Colombian presidents Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Andrés Pastrana Arango are members.
The documents and information produced by their political strategists are taken as informative references by right-wing media outlets such as Semana and RCN, and then disseminated by the warehouses of the Democratic Centre and the parties that make up the political alliance of Duque's government on the various social networks.
And they do so with an astonishing perversity, pointing out the dangers of Russian socialism, when they know that the Russian Federation is not a socialist country, but a country with a neoliberal capitalist economic model, governed by Vladimir Putin, a president with a far-right ideology and defender of neoliberal policies, the same ones defended by Uribism in Colombia.
His interest is to generate panic and fear among unwary voters about the fallacies of the spectre of socialism. A person with minimal knowledge of international politics knows that Russia's strategic and hegemonic interests are concentrated in the war in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It is there that it concentrates the defence of its area of influence and strategic security against the expansionism of the United States and its NATO military apparatus. In conclusion: Colombia plays no significant role for Russia's strategic and hegemonic interests in the world.