Pole crisis: fight between neo-Stalinist? Eduardo Mackenzie
For Journalist
September 13, 2007
The Phantom of the division round to call the Alternative Democratic Pole. Which appeared a week ago as the great chief of the training, Gustavo Petro, arrogant senator who dreams every night to topple the government of President Alvaro Uribe by lunatic accusations, was cornered and outnumbered as vulgar as a beginner during a heated board meeting of his party on 10 September.
harder fraction of PDA, which includes members of the semi-clandestine Communist Party and Maoist sect Moir, thought it was necessary to shut him the fiery senator who had dared days ago, rejecting a proposal by Raul Reyes, the "commander" of the "Southern Bloc" of the FARC.
Reyes stated that the FARC were willing any attempt to support creation of a utopian "government of the PDA" and that, just weeks before regional elections, the leadership of the FARC was a special "fondness" for the PDA.
Aware of the risk that these statements were run at the Polo, Gustavo Petro said roughly in the sense that he felt "disgusted" to this initiative and that such proposals as the FARC was seeking to "destroy" the PDA. This manly
posture, whose sincerity, and nobody argues, did not like the other chiefs of the Polo. The "intense discussion" broke out immediately at the top is, according to a Bogota newspaper [1], "the biggest crisis in six years' of training.
funny thing is that the witch hunt opened by the leaders of the PDA against Gustavo Petro sector came just hours after Raul Reyes threw the order to isolate those who had dared to refute. Indeed, in an interview published in a Mexican magazine [2], Reyes declared: "Petro is the Polo." The terrorist leader was then put aside the extremist senator and the other "true revolutionaries" who are, according to him, in the PDA, ie "many progressive people, patriotic, anti-imperialist ... and Chavez. "
In early July, after the slaughter of the eleven members of the FARC hostages Valle, Gustavo Petro their fellow party members had demanded more explicitly condemning the FARC. Ultra
disciplined, the most hard to address Reyes obeyed the order and called for only 23 of the 31-member executive committee to mount an ambush, as mounting know good Leninists, Gustavo Petro, and its current ally Lucho Garzón, Mayor of Bogotá.
And instead of seeking a reasonable solution to the creepy bear hug that is meant to give the terrorist organization to the PDA, the guests chose to ignore the problem and discuss, rather, for seven hours, "which should be the attitude of Polo in connection with Sen. Gustavo Petro."
next day, Carlos Gaviria, another eminence of PDA, fearing that the crisis defeating their ambitions Polo presidential candidate for elections in 2010 that he intended to win easily, offered his resignation as President of the PDA, after saying Petro phrases that against the FARC, "they hurt" the Pole and "threatening." As Jorge Robledo, the great helmsman of Moir, accused Petro of becoming a "loose wheel" which tries to impose his "personal views." Others shouted that he was building Petro itself politically and had engaged in "Uribe."
Only six of the attendees supported Petro. One
, Lucho Garzón, who was estranged from the senator, ran to his defense. "With Petro without delay or place," he said. "What the FARC in recent months, we are sending the Polo Democrático are not fireworks, has sent gas cylinders. And one of those gas cylinders do not respond or not to boleros to rancheras, "he concluded.
Jaime Dussan, another senator PDA, went further than others by Gustavo Petro said that he had "declared war on the FARC," something very shocking, as He, therefore, added, "the FARC are not our enemies." For good health, and avoid a new scandal, Dussán added that the FARC "are not our friends", as the PDA "condemns all forms of violence." If the PDA
actually condemned "all forms of violence," the proposal of Raul Reyes would have been immediately rejected, and unanimously, by that direction, position that this coalition is far from reach, as is seen in the light of the terrible ongoing dispute. Jaime Dussan
bares his totalitarian thinking when he pulls the old adage that the so-called "conflict" in Colombia but can not be resolved through a "political solution to subversion." That is, a capitulation of the democratic state against the violence. This issue of "political solution" divide the waters for decades in Colombia between those who seek an independent view and not see another horizon that follow, discreetly or not, under the yoke of the FARC.
his defense, Gustavo Petro used language that was not known until now and that surprised many. He argued that the Polo is not a party hierarchy, but "a network that can think freely" and that these parties nested "led the Soviet Union the gulag and Pol Poht Cambodia. " The MP accused the FARC of being "Stalinist" and pointed out that "this is not a discussion among peers, but among some insurgents, as the FARC, and a civilian, like me, who believes from the democratic left '[3 ].
All this comes at a time when the PDA is positioned, in effect, to Colombian society as a movement of "democratic left" is, as an opposition group that is unwilling to resort to violence to achieve their objectives.
However, the PDA is far from accepting what is a democratic left party. The Polo is a coalition which converge disparate remnants of the pro-Moscow Communist Party, reduced to the portion congrua after the collapse of the USSR, and the guerrillas demobilized M-19 and other left wing groups who have never questioned the Marxist dogmas.
action performed by the PDA and Sen. Gustavo Petro antediluvian coincides with that vision, and fit, in fact, the FARC's efforts to destabilize the government. Petro frantically accuses Colombian head of state had "tolerated" the emergence of right-wing paramilitaries since he was governor of Antioquia, an accusation that Petro could never prove. He always opposed the Plan Colombia anti-trafficking drugs and terrorism, and battle against the Justice and Peace law that allowed the demobilization of more than 30 thousand paramilitaries and the imprisonment of their leaders. Petro is shown as the perfect stooge of President Hugo Chavez, and even came to be on his side when he, in January 2005, Alvaro Uribe protested against the capture of Rodrigo Granda, a FARC leader was hiding in Venezuela.
Polo Democrático Alternativo The minority claims to have 552,000 adherents and is, however, as "option to" at the congress "unification" of December 2006, where five groups and five trends more or less rivals contested the 2 700 votes delegates. At that congress proclaimed his "confrontation with the armed struggle" which means they will not. However, the PDA fails to condemn the armed struggle made by others, particularly the FARC terrorism and other violent gang of extreme left.
The timely intervention of Raúl Reyes and the violent reaction of the hard of PDA, was to remind the country and the fraction that goes Gustavo Petro, the FARC will not tolerate a vacuum left at the slightest independence and the heterogeneous PDA must bow to the hegemonic designs of the FARC, as these are the only model that can exist for the left revolutionary country.
This shows that, unfortunately, the project of building a truly democratic left in Colombia, which does not accept the ideological-political tutelage of terrorist gangs, not ever had the pleasure, nor the indifference of the FARC, but on the Otherwise, you must be against her will.
Everyone knows that this crisis Polo crashes shortly after President Chavez managed to interfere in the matter of the eventual release of hostages held by FARC. Venezuelan dictator seeks, on the other hand, personal dialogue with Manuel Marulanda, leader of the FARC, to find, as they say Tables Pole, a "political solution" to the "conflict" in Colombia. The step taken by the neo-Stalinist fraction to take control of the PDA is consistent with the strange maneuvers that Caracas is developed to project its military ambitions of Colombia.
The problem is that with the brutal manotón of Dussan, Gaviria and Robledo, PDA can toy having been broken in his hands.
Journalist Eduardo Mackenzie
