Winemakers at the service of big business
Colombia is not competitive in the Latin American context, let alone globally, given its glaring shortcomings in terms of infrastructure for development.
The left-wing parties in government blame previous right-wing governments for administrative mistakes, while the right-wing parties blame the left for the disaster. And in this game of ping pong, the country is struggling with a severe economic and fiscal crisis, as well as crises in energy, health, education, road and port infrastructure. This is in addition to serious deficiencies in the coverage of new technologies at the national level. As a result, Colombians are living amid a barrage of populist and messianic rhetoric from both sides.
Political leaders on both the right and the left are not thinking about solving the serious problems facing Colombia; they are simply thinking about political calculations aimed at the next elections. In effect, they have deeply polarised Colombia and divided it between good and bad, with both sides calling each other thieves, bandits, corrupt and other names.
The lower and middle social strata of Colombian society are the favourite victims of the media manipulation of the messianic caudillismo of former president Álvaro Uribe and president Gustavo Petro. As a result, every day on social media, people are tearing each other apart in a kind of war of disparagement, defending the political interests of these two leaders and the economic elites who are fighting them for control of state funds and large state-owned businesses.
While Colombians are once again living in a kind of Patria Boba, the world is changing at an astonishing speed and Colombians are still embroiled in ideological discourses and debates from the Cold War era.
The political leaders of the right are at the service of the economic elites that control the Aval Group of Luis Carlos Sarmiento Ángulo, the Ardila Group of brothers Carlos Julio and Antonio José Ardila Gaviria, the conglomerate of Antioquia companies led by Manuel Santiago Mejía, the Char Group of Fuad Char Abdala, and several Spanish multinationals such as the Prisa Group and US multinationals from the BlackRock empire.
Those on the left are at the service of an emerging economic elite controlled by the Jaime Gilinski Group, the British and French Rothschild banking system that controls the Colpatria Group, the economic empire of US billionaire George Soros, and the Investment Banking Group led by Barranquilla businesswoman Violy McCausland, who has her two protégés pulling the strings of the government: Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, controlling the dance of corruption in the government.
The most astonishing thing is that a large percentage of followers and bodegueros, both on the right and the left, who consider themselves intelligent, get up from the early hours of the morning until late at night to disparage each other, but on both sides of the political war, with its high dose of messianism, they really don't know who they are working for in the struggles between the different economic groups for control of state resources and large and lucrative state businesses. The vast majority of these followers of Uribism and Petrism act as mere pawns and bodegueros in the service of big capital.
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