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Colombia's latest political ghost threat: 'pre-Chavism' or 'neo-Chavism'?
by Adriaan Alsema July 9, 2020
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque introduced “neo-Chavism” and former President Alvaro Uribe coined “pre-Chavism” as the latest imaginary political threat to their power on Wednesday.
Duque warned regional counterparts of the Andean Presidential Council about “the swindlers of neo-Chavism who want to go out and sow chaos in our nations, and ride on the discourse of chaos to their nefarious attempts to assume power.”
The “neo-communist enchanter”
The president’s political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, warned about a “pre-chavist atmosphere” that would benefit a “neo-communist enchanter” to win Colombia’s 2022 elections.
You have to be very careful with the ‘neo-communist enchanter’ because the ‘neo-communist enchanter’ hates being called a communist, that’s been erased. They come across as democrats and only talk about equality and transparency, and what they do is destroy private enterprise and leave countries without resources for social policy.
Former President Alvaro Uribe
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-latest-political-threat-pre-chavism-or-neo-chavism/
