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And how does Alvizú expect the government to fix any problems if they're fighting a war against guerillas?

The problem is many in the government are right wingers hell bent on continuing the same war, same with many Colombians, just ask any of them, they don't support doing anything with the FARC.

Kind of a sad story if you ask me, seems like Colombians don't learn from their own mistakes even though the FARC have been operating on the same premise for more than 2 decades.... their Government doesn't take care of their own people and it's not hard for plenty of farmers to see.

Here is a web developer pretending to understand a multi generational gap of power. The complexities of this armed conflict cannot be possibly explained in a line as rude as `colombians don't learn from their own mistakes`. For those of us the grew up in the midst of it, everyone you'll ever talk to wants better and more often than not, working on it. It's not just 2 decades. It's closer to 60 years.

> Here is a web developer pretending to understand a multi generational gap of power.

Don't you know that computer science is the only degree program to make you an expert in math, physics, history, economics, and politics?

Do not forget arts, nutrition, and exercise.

Way to take my comments out of context, I make these comments actually as a Colombian myself first except I don't live there, also I don't believe it's as simple as saying Colombians don't learn from their own mistakes, but obviously there seems to be a lot of political turmoil much of which people instantly want engage with in emotional reaction instead of thinking about the bigger picture for the entire country at whole and what it would take to unite it.

There can't be unity as long as the political leaders care only about their own small interests.

Like Álvaro Uribe. Good first mandate. Second mandate: it was all about making his sons richer, he stopped caring about the country. And now he only cares about staying out of jail.

> operating on the same premise for more than 2 decades.... their Government doesn't take care of their own people and it's not hard for plenty of farmers to see.

... and so we should have a marxist-leninist class revolution to install a dictatorship of the proletariat, by armed insurgency if necessary, and if so, funded by drug trafficking, extortion, and kidnapping.

^ it helps if you at least attempt to describe things fully.

and yes, I realize the contras don't have clean hands either and are guilty of many of the same things.

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