Colombia’s political plurality nearly reduced to ‘Communists’ vs ‘Fascists’
Colombia’s political plurality nearly reduced to ‘Communists’ vs ‘Fascists’
Feb 10, 2015 posted by Adriaan Alsema
The political battle between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, has reached a record low after the head of state implied the “extreme right” opposition leader is “using fascist tactics.”
Santos, in a recent past Uribe’s defense minister, took an unprecedentedly fierce swing at his predecessor on Wednesday while attending the annual National Journalism Awards.
“The extreme right opposition has taken up a strategy to present itself as politically persecuted … and the country knows, knows very well, that this is another monumental lie,” Santos said in Bogota.
Santos responded to the announcement of several strategies of conservative opposition party Democratic Center to seek international protection from an ongoing “political persecution” by the Santos-loyal Prosecutor General, and seek support abroad for its opposition to ongoing peace talks with the FARC.
The party has regularly accused the government of “surrendering Colombia to ‘Castro-Chavism’,” and has fiercely opposed the possibility for amnesty for FARC leaders, a position supported by a majority of urban Colombians.
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