THIRD WAY… COLOMBIAN AT THE GATES OF COMMUNISM.

THIRD WAY…

COLOMBIAN AT THE GATES OF COMMUNISM.

The concept of 'Third Way' was developed in Europe in the last decade of the 20th century. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the social democratic parties, contrary to what was predictable (a continued failure after the fall of the socialist bloc), rose with power in the wake of the employment crisis in the Old Continent. Tony Blair in the United Kingdom, Lionel Jospin in France and Romano Prodi in Italy, were the standard bearers of a new ideological current.

Anthony Giddens, the British sociologist who inspired the movement to a large extent, described it as "the combination" between social stability promoted by the socialists and the productivity of the neoliberals. Even opposing those who fought to maintain the Welfare State that was imposed for half a century in Europe after World War II, Giddens argued that "there will be no right if there are no responsibilities.

While Europe gave a second chance to the Social Democrats who spoke of a government without ideological monoliths, Santos became a champion of this new way of seeing the States in Latin America. In 1999, 11 years before becoming president, he wrote La Tercera Vía: an alternative for Colombia, and from there he began to prepare the academic platform of government known as the Good Government Foundation.

The summit in Cartagena of the third route carried out on July 1, 2014 and once assured the re-election of Juan Manuel Santos on June 15, became the official officialization of the divorce between the national president and Álvaro Uribe Vélez and, a in turn, in the definitive launching of the political platform with which Santos Calderón would govern taking the country to the doors of a communist republic similar to Venezuelan.

Consulted 25 recognized academics of the country have considered that Santos has advanced towards the consolidation of a State governed by the principles of "the market as far as possible, the State as far as necessary." However, they say that the emphasis of the action of the institutional apparatus continues to generate greater facilities for productivity but not for the quality of life of citizens.

The worst would be to come for this South American country, which no one imagines is that an eventual peace agreement with the FARC would plunge the Colombian state into the most absolute defeat of democracy and the right state, since the president of the republic went much further of what many of us think, the refoundation of a new country.

The president of Colombian Juan Manuel Santos was not only satisfied with introducing in his economic policy, the most important guidelines of the third way, but opened the possibility of establishing for the first time a communist system, for his recognized love of yesteryear with the left Latin American.

The third way in Colombian meant in practice a true transition between a center-right government and the old formula of socialism prevailing in some countries of the continent.

But undoubtedly, the determining factor in the possible institution of communism in Colombia was undoubtedly the peace agreement with the Farc rebel groups, since within the negotiations in Havana (Cuba), one of the requirements was the refoundation of the state Colombian, to which they have always branded as oligarchic.

On October 2 of 2016 the Colombians said no to the peace agreement with the FARC, not precisely because they did not want peace, nor because it was a political victory for former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, but because the shadow of impunity and the way Some of the agreement's key points, such as transitional justice and the JEP, were repudiated by the Colombians, since a minimum of punishment was required for those terrorists who had long harmed the country.

However, President Juan Manuel decided to ignore the result and symbolically made public the need to make adjustments, adjustments that of course were never substantive and could not achieve reconciliation with citizens who rejected the peace agreement, so that it secured the deepest polarization of the country.

Consequently, the country is in a deep polarization, divided between two presidents, Juan Manuel Santos and Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Right and Left, armed rebels and paramilitaries, human rights defender or human rights violator.

The next presidential elections in Colombia are decisive for the new state design, or it is decided by the continuity of the right and the course of history unfortunately changes to establish socialism for the first time in this country.

Populist candidates like Gustavo Petro are a threat to democracy, but especially for the economic model of the country, the fear is that under a possible mandate he will adopt the model of Bolivarian socialism in Venezuelan.

So, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón has been the missing link for the Colombian left, it was the missing piece for populist discourses to take so much boom in our population, because poverty, inequality, unemployment, have been actors that affect the empowerment of popular discourse, calando these socialist ideas in our country.

Of course, I am not demonizing per se the communism, the disastrous thing, is that this system is associated with a terrorist left, rebel groups FARC, ELN, EPL and other rebel groups, who went to cocaine trafficking, to crime, to the violation of human rights to want with force to achieve political power.

The destructión of democracy in Venezuelan, misery and hunger are the worst fear of Colombians in these elections, and it is not that the Castro-Chavez speech of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez is affirmative, but that we Colombians have been victims of the nefarious policies of the dictatorship of the brother country.

Juan Manuel Santos, hypocrite and opportunist, betrayed a whole country and stretched out in the arms of a rebel and murderous left, obsessed with power, to possibly turn Colombian into a communist country and that only achieved it with the famous third way .

The Colombian economy is among the best in Latin America, according to reports from the world bank, but communism threatens us, and if we Colombians do not want it, it is as if we were in a dilemma to be left or right, that should not be the issue, but the facts are self-evident, and requires rethinking before exercising the right to vote in the elections of May 2018.

Was the Colombian democracy injured with the third way? Of course not; but how do I repeat it was the step that was reached to open the doors to communism in Colombia, and why? Because the peace agreement with the Farc was born out of that policy in Colombia, because this agreement made visible the communist and socialist ideologues that were sitting in the big seats of the state.

The peace Nobel did not manage to end the war, on the contrary and despite some scholars, the conflict in Colombia worsened, because the prize of impunity for the terrorists of the Farc, left a terrible lesson to the criminality and to the citizenship in general, the submission of the Justice and the right state to the requirements of the same ones, I minimize the institutional power.

Written

Omar Colmenares Trujillo.