May 7, 2026

Cajibío

Cajibío, a cultural and musical city of the Nasa ethnic group, means “wind box” due to its climate. What is happening in southwestern Colombia and other parts of the country is the result of the loss of government authority, which lacks direction on how to guide a people. The “total peace” policy—where negotiations include over 30 illegal groups without political ideas, involved in criminal enterprises—has proven to be a “total” failure in a country yearning for peace. It is a complex but beautiful country with enviable flora and fauna, all climates, and surrounded by water, which must be protected by the State in its entirety. The State must fulfill this purpose with its citizens, who form the nation. Each citizen, with their professions, arts, and trades, includes many good people to manage public and private affairs, but they need protection. It is painful to see how our territory has been lost or we have been unable to recover it; it is painful to recall Panama, lost under circumstances that are lamentable to remember today. Reviewing the programs and state plans of different candidates, Paloma Valencia is very clear on “how” to do things, and that is what matters: knowledge, not improvisation. I have enormous hope to see this woman lead our country, but that does not mean other candidates, except the heir to the current government, do not understand the importance of security. We cannot continue to be governed by fallacies, lies, or especially by self-inflicted fiscal scarcity with malicious intent, deteriorating our tax finances merely to buy consciences; for example, the famous “shu shu shu” in healthcare that was replicated in other sectors. A country that has been dismembered by dark forces in remote corners and across Colombia’s porous border. “Within the fire are the spirits, each clad in the flame that burns it,” Inferno, Canto XXVI, Dante Alighieri. Mr. Petro is trying to perpetuate himself in power; citizens must defend the Social State of Law, achieved with such effort in 1991—one of the world’s most guaranteeing constitutions—in every possible way. Within it, we can make modifications for a new social contract without having to dismantle the path already taken. We must oppose the so-called constituent power, autocracy, and perpetuity. We must strive for the new government and those that follow—because this will not be fixed in four years, but it can improve—to build what Mr. Petro has destroyed. We need to have the best people, with knowledge and experience, back in every ministry and state office. This May 31st is fundamental for the country and its history. Let the cry from the stands, “Petro out,” be heard in the silence of the ballot boxes with each vote, thinking of Cajibío and all the municipalities that have fallen into anxiety and confusion from fear. PS: elections 2026, yes; Constituent Assembly, no.