El Opinador Compulsivo

Buen articulo de Vargas Llosa el Menor en RCP sobre Jojoy.

Para AVL la guerra contra las FARC está esencialmente terminada, es sólo cuestión de tiempo para que se entreguen:

For decades, politicians, academics, human rights activists and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic failed to see that there was nothing romantic, "bien-pensant" or Robin Hoodesque about an organization that killed, maimed, kidnapped and extorted for a totalitarian objective. Colombia's solitude was such that even the United States began to lose faith in its ally a couple of years ago, refusing to approve a free-trade agreement that Bogota had negotiated at a major political cost.

Colombians did not give up and continued to reclaim territory for civilian rule. Much like the defeat of Venezuela's Cuba-inspired terrorist guerrillas in the 1960s, Colombia's victory against FARC is the result of civilians awakening to the evil of totalitarian terror. We get to hear about spectacular military feats, but how many outside Colombia realize that peasants, factory workers, teachers, students and others joined the struggle to defeat FARC, beautifully symbolized by the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets inside Colombia and around the world in July 2008 to clamor for the end of terror?

Mike